The Greatest Solo of All Time

hey everyone i'm rick biatto on today's episode we're going to talk about what may be the greatest solo of all time you guys are know that i'm into hyperbole but when you see this you're going to say you know what that may be the greatest solo of all time so let me give you a little background when i was a kid my dad on the weekends would listen to music he worked for the railroad he would go out to record stores that was his favorite hobby and buy records jazz records but what was weird is that my dad was not a musician at all but he liked the most incredibly sophisticated bebop music and his favorite bebop musician was oscar peterson the pianist now i don't know why my dad liked oscar peterson other than the fact that oscar could swing harder than anyone i mean just ridiculous as you will see from this video what we're going to watch and i'm going to talk about is a video that was recorded in 1974 at ronnie scott's in london and it's a trio oscar peterson torito with nell sending orsted patterson on the base which i did a video about the video was called jacko before jacko it's the most insane upright bass player you've ever seen and if you haven't seen that video you should check it out it's great and the guitar player barney kessel who's a fantastic guitar player one of the best bebop guitar players there was as a matter of fact my old guitar teacher at ithaca college steve brown was a huge barney kessel fan very influenced by him so i was actually influenced by barney kessel not only from listening to him as a kid but through my teacher steve brown when oscar would put out a new record my dad was on it no matter what it was oscar recorded for pablo records for years there were many many records that were out but oscar did made records from the early 60s on as a matter of fact he has a record called blues etude this is a live version of that so what he does in this is as you will see he goes through all these different styles of piano playing boogie woogie stride piano bebop it's like a blues etude but he's improvising everything and it's insane so we're going to start out by watching this it starts out with the applause before or while they're finishing their last song and then barney kessel and neil signing or stead petterson go into the groove they start playing this is a blues in f it's actually a simple blues one four five and a bebop blues at the same time bebop blues might be something like uh one two three [Music] whereas a rock blues or boogie blues might be uh [Music] you know like a regular 12 bar blues just with one four five and oscars is going to play all of them so let's check it out so they're just finishing the last tune and then fast the funny thing to watch is the reaction of barney kessel on the guitar and neil signing or stick hunters on the base when oscar's playing so oscar's looking back at them like yeah okay it's a good tempo and then they lay out [Music] now he's just getting warmed up changes oh so things like that right there listen to feel we're here there's a great video on how to play that lick right there called the tastiest oscar peterson blues lick by my dear friend amy nolte [Music] amy is my oldest youtuber friend we've been friends for five years she just hit 200 000 subscribers yesterday so congratulations amy definitely follow her channel she's awesome incredibly hard left hand accompaniment [Music] to improvise over that is extremely difficult because he's making up both parts [Music] here we go another field change i like half [Music] check out the look that barney kessel just gave neils when oscar played that that's how you know that you're playing with a great player when you look at each other go man [Music] so oscar could play bebop he could play boogie woogie he could play stride piano [Music] oh man then he goes to the walking base just to explain what a walking bass line is normally a walking bass line if you have a bass player would be like uh but oscar's doing it in octaves it adds an extra layer of intensity to the solo you can see his hand there it's hitting the other keys they're all moving but they're not playing [Music] oh yeah then total field change again like a faster boogie boogie when i say a faster boogie woogie so boogie woogie pattern that he's playing there is in the left hand that's what gives it that boogie woogie feel then the right hand he's doing uh he has that blues sound with the sharp four and the flat third and then he solos over that pattern one board [Music] i love right there how he builds intensity in the solo on the four chord he's just ripping on a four note f minor pentatonic pattern then he goes back to the one chord he adds in the fifth note and rips on the five notes [Music] now he starts to cook i love that look of barney kessel's right there he's thinking i gotta play after that [Music] we're still playing one four five blues which [Music] wait what listen this that left hand there we go listen [Music] right on barney castle solo [Music] [Music] oh that's so hard to do [Music] oh man sweet then he has a pedal tone here right here okay so when i'd say pedal tone they're on the one chord of the f blues but barty's playing the dominant the c and he's pedaling on it with his thumb now the hard thing is he's actually playing [Music] i can't even reach that first chord well barely [Music] i mean that's really what he's doing then he goes to the four chord and back up to the one chord there that is such a cool lick check it out again right here [Music] oh so hard they lay out and ask her just with a simple baseline he's just backed one four five blues [Music] now he's starting to hit the double time oh man oh man that's our datum leg there are datum okay right there that lick right there is so difficult to play oh man here we go double time walk in the baseline and then stride so stride piano stride piano is basically playing the bass notes and then moving up and playing chord little chord shells like that or sometimes it's playing tenths in in the left hand intervals and playing chord shell so it's like choo choo choo choo choo choo it's so hard to if you think i'm just moving your hand that fast then you're improvising and never playing any of the any wrong notes it's insane right look at it watch you can't even tell his left hand really from this shot [Music] oh killing it then left right hand it sounds like two people playing call me [Music] then the left hand changes like a boogie like a fast boogie wiggy still one four five [Music] oh now he's just getting going he's improvising [Music] i mean it's insane [Music] when they come back in oscar signals them with that tremolo they know it's coming [Music] there's no drums these guys are so on it [Music] then [Music] now imagine being in the audience there in 1974 i mean i don't know how many people are still live from then none of the people on the bandstand are alive barney kessel passed away in 2004 neil signing our stead patterson 2005 and oscar in 2007. they all died within three years of each other oscar was uh hit by a stroke i believe it was in 1994 or so and um and lost the use of a couple of his fingers on his left hand and it really impacted him for the rest of his career eventually retiring his recordings from really 1973 through 1985 are absolutely phenomenal there's great recordings in the 60s but his technique his feel everything his repertoire of song everything really solidified during that time period if you're looking for records you want to check out oscar's kind of peak performance or you want to find things on youtube look for the early 70s up through the mid 80s or so because that's when he was just absolutely killing it and this is one of the best performances i've ever seen on piano and it's all improvised and it has so much fire and so much swing that just blows my mind this video is dedicated to my dad who was uh you know one of the biggest inspirations and he was the one that really gave me the love of jazz from listening to these records i mean i heard these when i was a little kid that's why when i started playing jazz in high school when my dad bought me a joe pass record who oscar played with a lot there's many many recordings of them there's many videos on youtube with oscar and joe playing together my dad bought me this record virtuoso and that really kind of changed my life i had heard bebop my whole life but when i started learning the ideas from that it started to all make sense to me so check out oscar one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century thanks so much for watching that's all for now don't forget to subscribe ring the bell and leave a comment check out my new quick lessons pro guitar course that just came out also the biato book if you want to learn about music theory that's how you do it and check out my biato ear training course at beautiertraining.com and don't forget if you want to support the channel even more think about 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Length: 17min 25sec (1045 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 20 2021