Jimmy Bruno – How I Learned Jazz Guitar In The 60s
Excerpt from “In The Style Of Jimmy Bruno, Vol. 1”
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Jimmy Bruno, born July 22, 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a master jazz guitarist and jazz educator. One of the most critically acclaimed jazz guitarists performing today, Jimmy Bruno came to prominence as a jazz musician in the 1990’s, after a successful twenty-year career as a sought-after commercial guitarist and session musician. He studied jazz improvisation with local Philly bass legend Al Stauffer and to develop technique, taught himself to play the rigorous and exacting classical violin etudes of Wohlfahrt and Paganini. A summer guitar gig in Wildwood NJ changed the direction of Jimmy’s life forever, putting him into the path of Buddy Rich.
After a whirlwind round-the-world tour as the youngest member of the Buddy Rich Orchestra, he went on to play guitar in orchestras for Frank Sinatra, Anthony Newley, Doc Severinsen, Lena Horne, and many more music icons. Additionally he spent many years as an LA session musician working with Tommy Tedesco. But his first love was always jazz, and by the time he was in his mid-thirties he was ready to come out of the background and back into the spotlight. Today, Jimmy is considered a jazz guitar legend.
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Beautiful interview.
Only respect for this guy????????????????????❤️????
https://youtu.be/Oy9ytBkvM54?si=fz4p2fwQnBLQWjqw
What guitar is that?
Nice Ipanema
Jimmy you ever play the jazz clubs in Toronto
The best have an inflated intuition…arpeggios…scales…modes. It still takes intuition to throw you over the top…so to speak.
That's why so many "greats" couldn't even read music.
Thanks Jimmy for this excellent look back at your guitar education. Few masters would ever be so brave to reveal their early processes as you have. I've been at it since 1962 and I started the same way, listening to every guitarist that caught my interest. I didn't have a book to learn from, and like you I would play tunes and didn't know the names of the chords or even the notes I was playing! At 77 I'm still listening and learning, the process never ends. My goal is to achieve the best level of playing I can, I know I'll never reach it, and that's actually good, so there will always be new challenges. One of my early inspirations was of your dad playing "Guitar Boogie Shuffle". BTW – you are LQQKing great! Take care, we are all so happy for you!
Why Green dolphin Street in C and not it in Eb?
Great interview. He's really good. I've been playing 50 years, in bands for almost 30, and I can play maybe 3 jazz songs. I do know Jazz the stripper, though!
How did i never hear of this guy before? Sheesh!
Thanks for sharing!
Love this Master. So humble guitar worker, so talented. True artisan of jazz guitar.
Thank you Jimmy.
He could have voiced Vinnie from Family guy that's a great voice
They didn't sound like jazz. They seemed like they went to school. ????????????????
Just an amazing player. I'm using those tips for myself and it helps very much! Jimmy seems like great fun guy who loves his guitar!
I don't understand all terms, I've been playing since I was 8 until 28. But, not everyday. Still, I've been doing a lot of this by the influence of listening to people like you. So, thank you for jamming and continuing to be accessible. Rock on man
Bukowski of music fucking brilliant
This is one of your better videos…more vulnerable somehow. I love you Jimmy but man you can be a hard ass. Great video.
I feel blessed to have sat in his masterclass last week.
He mentioned the tune Ebb Tide. Such a beautiful melody.
Being a public school kid in Hawaii with very little access to Jazz education, but a strong hunger to learn jazz, Jimmy’s hot licks videos and his old online school gave me my starting foundation in playing and understanding the language of Jazz, and it’s a journey I am still on today.
Thank you very much Jimmy for being such a great steward of Jazz, and also for all the laughs and chuckles I get to this day when you “tell it like it is” on your own YouTube channel.
I loved the part about weddings. When I was learning, playing weddings was where you pull the stuff together. It was funny about holding up fingers. If the the band leader was a horn player the fingers up were the flat keys and down were the sharp keys. Great days or in my case daze! Lol????
jimmy bruno the master , telling me how little he knew when starting out and being self-taught ,
to hearing chords as colors gives me inspiration
to learn more every day i'm 71
Boys and girls, here's a legend, watch in awe and absorb.
Study his 5 shapes and doorways open!!
I love this video. I started studying jazz in the late 1970s when it was starting to be taught in the academies, and a lot of Jimmy’s organic learning was being put into the Mickey Baker books and the Joe Pass chord book and studies.
the real deal! thanks a lot.
One of my favourite interviews.
Basically the way to learn jazz effectively is to be surrounded by other people who know and play jazz.
Thank you Bruno.
All 12 keys? Does he not realize there is 30 keys in music?
Before i learn a jazz solo, i also learn it in parts and then improv. Once i get all the parts down, then i play the whole thing. The few times, it will be wrong, but i keep refining ot until i get it perfect. That's how i learned Donna Lee.
Jimmy we know that anyone who can play the standards can play anything else in the world but jazz players are the most humble of all musicians.
Jimmy 'Clooney' Bruno
Best teacher for no bullshit guitar jazz on YT
Great
Never forget Diorio. He was a master. I love his guitar playing.
Jimmy. It's not just your technical ability that makes me like your playing, but the fact that you have an incredible style. I'm a HUGE Pat Martino fan. I don't much care for Hank Garland's style, but he was great. I can play lead to just about anything, but I need more work with those crazy @ss jazz chords. But, anyway, peace man. You and Pat are my all-time favorites.
Admitting he has musical kinesthesia at about 6:09
Maybe this is most important ❤❤❤
Didn't Jimmy say his dad Jimmy Sr. used to beat him with a strap if he didn't learn a new scale each day?
Im trying to learn in my 70’s
I miss his online school. Learned a lot there. His 5 shapes are an absolute MUST
I don't claim to be an expert but I know what I like. ????
I think a young guitarist who is getting into jazz would do well to pick his 7 or 8 favorite players and listen to everything they ever played. But, I ALSO think it's good to listen to vibe and clarinet players as well. And maybe take a few lessons with a lounge type pianist to learn how they comp in the background to support a singer.
I wish I could turn the clock back 50 years and take my own advice.