As a veteran bass player, it's still amazing to me what a challenge it is to play Oscar's solos. There is such a wealth of information to be had when listening to Oscar and analyzing his solos. Thank you.
Oscar was my husband’s grandfather. Good to hear more of his story. As a tribute to him we played his music during our wedding reception. His musical genes has definitely traveled through the family in my husband and now our son. Great video!
Thank you for posting this tribute to O.P. , a fantastic bassist and composer. I got smart and started working on Tricotism last year, still working on it, it is the challenge for a bassist, happy to say though that the composition swings even as a study piece. Great information and vibe on your channel, Thank you.
Oscar Pettiford also left 3 beautiful children. His son Cello and a set of twins . We grew up together . ❤️ Thank you for sharing this amazing video. It will be liked,shared and I'm definitely a new subscriber
Thanks Paul for putting in all the love and work for the global bass community. Some of us who are older that are still knowledgeble of our Upright Bass Legacy. There are so many unsung héroes and just great soft spoken visionary players out there its difficult to keep track of them all.
Great video. Oscar Pettiford was an amazing bassist. I am impressed to this day with his playing so much so that i did his interpretation of Stardust for my recital. Still working hard to improve my playing and this video just inspired me. Brought back memories to keep working harder. Thank you Sir , i love following your videos here in Trinidad.Hoping to study with you one day.
Love it! I was turned on to OP via the Three Vinyl Album from ABC Records entitled “The Bass” I did learn and Transcribed his Original Tricotism and The Plain But Simple Truth. I loved his trio playing with Lucky Thompson. Swinging hard and no drums. I Love the feeling I get when I hear those tunes. Thanks for turning me on to even more great OP info. Keep up these awesome videos. You really do. Great job. Dave
Another fantastic mini documentary from your channel Paul. The amount of Bass history you’ve been to condense into a few minutes Paul, is uncanny yet totally accurate. Clearly, you do a whole lot of research. Tricatism is possibly be my all-time favorite composition from a bassist of any era in jazz. An excellent example the AABA 32 bar tune. It’s such a natural melody, with a strong bridge. And it’s a great big band piece as well.
Ron Carter is also a cellist. Ray Brown also recorded on cello. Thanks Paul for this wonderful highlight of a fabulous bass player/ musician, OP From Ira Gitler's book...-- "pianist Billy Taylor remembers Pettiford's approach : The tempos were ungodly, but Oscar would get annoyed if we didn't give him a solo. Most bassists would say "look man, I've been playing behind you guys all theses choruses. Let the drummer take it. But Oscar said " You played on it. I'll play on it too".
Another wonderful and informative tribute. There's so much inspiration to take from OP that your suggestions for recordings make the process much less daunting. Thank you again, Bassman 😊🎵🎶❤️🙏
Kudos to you for helping these very important bass titans live again. The common thread, at least in the ones I have seen thus far, is these were all very gifted and talented individuals who left us too soon. However, their contributions to the music live on, despite their relative anonymity when other pioneering jazz trailblazers are discussed. For me, they are very easy to appreciate.
Love your bass clef (electric bass, acoustic bass, cello...) oriented modern music history lessons!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 Some ideas for future videos: the bassists who played with Miles Davis( Percy Heath, OP, Ray Brown, Paul Chambers,Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Dave Holland, Michael Henderson, Marcus Miller, Reggie Workman, etc, etc!)...or...unsung or under-appreciated or lesser known fretless electric bass players, e.g. Percy Jones, Kai Eckhardt, Jose Armando Gola, Matt Brewer, Fernando Saunders, Alphonso Johnson, etc. Thanks for continuing to post great content!💎👍🏽✌🏾😎
@@pdbass You are right about the Miles idea...You could, maybe, pick a few of your faves, possibly splitting it into 2 separate episodes, one for acoustic bass and one for electric bass...? Another totally random idea: hardly anyone except real electric bass geeks talks about-or even knows about-Monk Montgomery...So many ideas, so little time...😂
Oscar allso played with guitarist tal farlow with Joe morelo on drums the album is called the tal falow album Oscar's bass playing on it is Sublime. cheers g g boyle nz
I remember one night at Ronnie Scott’s club Percy Heath was playing and had his cello . Great gig . At the end of the night he let me play the cello , what a great night. Oscalypso is another great thing OP did with cello . The Monk plays Ellington lp is a master piece
Thanks for this mention of Harry, very cool! In 1946 on the set of the Danny Kaye movie, "A Song is Born" Dad was playing bass with Benny Goodman Orchestra. He found a cello on the set and tuned it to 4ths and started messing around with it. Later, he would take a piece of TV antenna wire and sling it over his shoulder like a guitar and play standing up. Laurindo Almeida, was an "extra" and they started jamming and messing around with latin rhythms, which would later become the Bossa Nova latin-fusion genre. He was good friends with Oscar, I love the record they made together. BTW I remember Ray Brown coming to our house, bringing me a Tonka truck for my birthday and bouncing me on his knee, ha,ha,ha... Here is a link to Dad's band the Jazzpickers, I have posted a few videos. ruclips.net/video/gDZ97uu1AEg/видео.html Great Channel BTW!
Starting out, I was exposed to the kinda typical Chambers and Ray Brown bass lines (which are amazing!) but I’ve only recently started listening to more OP and fell in love with his phrasing. Especially on his bass solo over Tricrotism with Lucky Thompson! I’ve said this before but I love your channel! So underrated for the incredibly high quality content that’s great for bassist like me and to any musician!! Much love and respect ❤️ Will be back!
Good question! My 3 faves are: TRICOTISM (Lucky Thompson), Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, and FREEDOM SUITE (Sonny Rollins), but there are SO MANY great ones. (OP's album ANOTHER ONE would be #3A)
He is a family member on my mother's father's side of the family. My mom is doing our genealogy. I am very curious about him. My Uncle is Elmer Gibson. He is a jazz pianist. My mother told me a bit if his story yesterday. Cab Calloway martied into my father's side of the family.
@@pdbass Oscar's son is Cello. I believe he is a musician( as well). Knowing that I come from such great people gives me hope in such dark times( as this).
I'm kind of bummed that you didn't mention that George Shearing played in his trio, especially since you showed a picture of Shearing together with Oscar. I recently listened to an interview with the great Chuck Israels, who said that Oscar was "far and away" the best bassist ever. Chuck's no slouch himself.
Great information and appreciation learn more and more about the pioneer of a jazz family I wonder is it them that created the mpls sound 😎just joking. Oscar Pettiford was a Maverick. Just like you bro. Keep up the good work .
OP and Niels both lived in Copenhagen. Atilla told me he and OP were apartment-mates there. He said OP was a little on the wild side! (Coming from Atilla that was saying something!) Atilla wrote a really interesting blues called Blues Macabre or Homage to O.P. We would play the line unison in and out. Really love your content, Paul. Thanks so much. Hope to meet you sometime. Both parents went to WVU and as a child we drove from Philly every summer to visit my grandmother who lived on High Street there. Thanks for your homage to O.P. Wonderful!
Check this video out. OP speaks: ruclips.net/video/UbC6yO5lr8s/видео.html
As a veteran bass player, it's still amazing to me what a challenge it is to play Oscar's solos. There is such a wealth of information to be had when listening to Oscar and analyzing his solos. Thank you.
Oscar was my husband’s grandfather. Good to hear more of his story. As a tribute to him we played his music during our wedding reception. His musical genes has definitely traveled through the family in my husband and now our son. Great video!
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
@martyyvonnebeauty9222 My Great Grandmother was Ella Nora Pettiford. That makes your husband and I cousins! ❤ sending love to you xx
I have one of Oscar Pettiford Bass books. Still studying!
Thanks, Paul for another great video. Oscar Pettiford is one of my all-time favorites, and he certainly deserves to be remembered.
Thank you for posting this tribute to O.P. , a fantastic bassist and composer. I got smart and started working on Tricotism last year, still working on it, it is the challenge for a bassist, happy to say though that the composition swings even as a study piece. Great information and vibe on your channel, Thank you.
I love your videos, man-great work!!
I love his playing especially on Monk Plays Ellington .
Oscar Pettiford also left 3 beautiful children. His son Cello and a set of twins . We grew up together . ❤️ Thank you for sharing this amazing video. It will be liked,shared and I'm definitely a new subscriber
OP is - put simply - the greatest!!!
Thanks Paul for putting in all the love and work for the global bass community. Some of us who are older that are still knowledgeble of our Upright Bass Legacy. There are so many unsung héroes and just great soft spoken visionary players out there its difficult to keep track of them all.
OP was far ahead of his time in both his bass lines and bebop soloing on upright. Thanks for the video
Great video. Oscar Pettiford was an amazing bassist. I am impressed to this day with his playing so much so that i did his interpretation of Stardust for my recital. Still working hard to improve my playing and this video just inspired me. Brought back memories to keep working harder. Thank you Sir , i love following your videos here in Trinidad.Hoping to study with you one day.
these history videos are my favorite thing on your channel, I didn't know any of these guys!
Great Paul! I love OP too!!
My Uncle OP, gone but will never be forgotten 🙏🏿❤️💯 RIP Uncle !
Love OP! So strong and gentle, so lyrical and sophisticated. ❤️
I'm a cellist, so I first found out about Oscar Pettiford from searching up "jazz on cello" lol
🙏 Thank you !
Wonderfull content! Thanks for keeping OP memory alive for us!
I really dig your musical biographies.
Love it! I was turned on to OP via the Three Vinyl Album from ABC Records entitled “The Bass” I did learn and Transcribed his Original Tricotism and The Plain But Simple Truth. I loved his trio playing with Lucky Thompson. Swinging hard and no drums. I Love the feeling I get when I hear those tunes. Thanks for turning me on to even more great OP info. Keep up these awesome videos. You really do. Great job. Dave
My teacher had that very same album back in the 80s. Great stuff. Thank you!
Another fantastic mini documentary from your channel Paul. The amount of Bass history you’ve been to condense into a few minutes Paul, is uncanny yet totally accurate. Clearly, you do a whole lot of research.
Tricatism is possibly be my all-time favorite composition from a bassist of any era in jazz. An excellent example the AABA 32 bar tune. It’s such a natural melody, with a strong bridge. And it’s a great big band piece as well.
Ron Carter is also a cellist. Ray Brown also recorded on cello. Thanks Paul for this wonderful highlight of a fabulous bass player/ musician, OP
From Ira Gitler's book...-- "pianist Billy Taylor remembers Pettiford's approach : The tempos were ungodly, but Oscar would get annoyed if we didn't give him a solo. Most bassists would say "look man, I've been playing behind you guys all theses choruses. Let the drummer take it. But Oscar said " You played on it. I'll play on it too".
Looooooove this comment!!! Thank you!
Doug Watkins and Sam Jones also recorded with cello - but I feel that O.P.’s work on the cello outshines them all!
Muchas Gracias, as in a whole LOT of thanks for doing what YOU just did, bring Señor Pettiford into my life.
Brilliant player
He left us way too soon.
@3:44 -- DAYUM!!
Amigo, thanks for another great lesson. There so much here about OP that i never knew.
Bravo, thanks for your deep insight into all things bass. I’m enjoying learning from you. 😎
My man, if this is THE Fima Ephron, I should be thanking YOU. You've been one of my heroes for YEARS!! Thank you for watching!
beautifully said
Another wonderful and informative tribute. There's so much inspiration to take from OP that your suggestions for recordings make the process much less daunting. Thank you again, Bassman 😊🎵🎶❤️🙏
Great tribute to OP! Thank you for doing this!
2:50 in the morning n I'm diggin it.
Supe video! I love Oscar Pettiford. In a post Pettiford world ❤️🙏🏻🎵
OP was one of my most important early influences. I loved how you could often hear him breathe before starting a new phrase when soloing.
King of finesse
Kudos to you for helping these very important bass titans live again. The common thread, at least in the ones I have seen thus far, is these were all very gifted and talented individuals who left us too soon. However, their contributions to the music live on, despite their relative anonymity when other pioneering jazz trailblazers are discussed. For me, they are very easy to appreciate.
Thanks for this tribute to my favorite bassist,who was and is the most
musical bassist i ever heard.
PS:Didn’t he play on Kind of Blue?
Thanks for watching! That’s actually Paul Chambers on KoB.
@@pdbass Yes i know PC was the bassist but i think i read somewhere that
Pettiford was featured on one of the songs as well on that album.
Outstanding profile of an amazing bassist. Great job.
Love your bass clef (electric bass, acoustic bass, cello...) oriented modern music history lessons!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 Some ideas for future videos: the bassists who played with Miles Davis( Percy Heath, OP, Ray Brown, Paul Chambers,Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Dave Holland, Michael Henderson, Marcus Miller, Reggie Workman, etc, etc!)...or...unsung or under-appreciated or lesser known fretless electric bass players, e.g. Percy Jones, Kai Eckhardt, Jose Armando Gola, Matt Brewer, Fernando Saunders, Alphonso Johnson, etc. Thanks for continuing to post great content!💎👍🏽✌🏾😎
WONDERFUL ideas!! Love the Miles thing. That might be a long one, but I love it.
@@pdbass You are right about the Miles idea...You could, maybe, pick a few of your faves, possibly splitting it into 2 separate episodes, one for acoustic bass and one for electric bass...? Another totally random idea: hardly anyone except real electric bass geeks talks about-or even knows about-Monk Montgomery...So many ideas, so little time...😂
Yeah Buddy
I have to confess... I am not hip to OP. As usual -- you're getting me on track. Thanks Paul!
Oscar allso played with guitarist tal farlow with Joe morelo on drums the album is called the tal falow album Oscar's bass playing on it is Sublime. cheers g g boyle nz
Thanks a LOT really interesting!!!!!!!❤
Thanks a lot this great post, once more.
Great vid!! congratulations , I love Pettiford's music.
OP - the OG of virtuoso Jazz Bassists!
Preach!
I remember one night at Ronnie Scott’s club Percy Heath was playing and had his cello . Great gig . At the end of the night he let me play the cello , what a great night. Oscalypso is another great thing OP did with cello . The Monk plays Ellington lp is a master piece
I'm really enjoying your content.
Thanks for this video, great!
Thanks for this mention of Harry, very cool! In 1946 on the set of the Danny Kaye movie, "A Song is Born" Dad was playing bass with Benny Goodman Orchestra. He found a cello on the set and tuned it to 4ths and started messing around with it. Later, he would take a piece of TV antenna wire and sling it over his shoulder like a guitar and play standing up. Laurindo Almeida, was an "extra" and they started jamming and messing around with latin rhythms, which would later become the Bossa Nova latin-fusion genre. He was good friends with Oscar, I love the record they made together. BTW I remember Ray Brown coming to our house, bringing me a Tonka truck for my birthday and bouncing me on his knee, ha,ha,ha... Here is a link to Dad's band the Jazzpickers, I have posted a few videos. ruclips.net/video/gDZ97uu1AEg/видео.html Great Channel BTW!
AMAZING!!! We all have your Dad to thank for that awesome/infamous "Bossa" bassline! I can't think of a bassist that HASN'T played it.
GREAT STUFF MAN
Super informative! Great job with the Jazz history your a natural keep it going man:)
Man, I love your channel, thank you from a fellow bassist
Starting out, I was exposed to the kinda typical Chambers and Ray Brown bass lines (which are amazing!) but I’ve only recently started listening to more OP and fell in love with his phrasing. Especially on his bass solo over Tricrotism with Lucky Thompson! I’ve said this before but I love your channel! So underrated for the incredibly high quality content that’s great for bassist like me and to any musician!! Much love and respect ❤️ Will be back!
Thank you so much for watching!! Much more to come.
The goat imo
OP was the best . Check out the Essen jazz festival recording with Bud and Coleman Hawkins. If you have not heard it already.
Great channel!
Outstanding could you please do one on monk Montgomery
Great idea! He’s on the list for sure.
Hey Paul, can you recommend what you think are the top 3 OP albums to listen to? That would be extremely helpful. Thanks!
Good question! My 3 faves are: TRICOTISM (Lucky Thompson), Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, and FREEDOM SUITE (Sonny Rollins), but there are SO MANY great ones. (OP's album ANOTHER ONE would be #3A)
He is a family member on my mother's father's side of the family. My mom is doing our genealogy. I am very curious about him. My Uncle is Elmer Gibson. He is a jazz pianist.
My mother told me a bit if his story yesterday. Cab Calloway martied into my father's side of the family.
Amazing!
@@pdbass Oscar's son is Cello. I believe he is a musician( as well). Knowing that I come from such great people gives me hope in such dark times( as this).
@@kresivarivkah612 FOR REAL.
OP is the OG
I'm kind of bummed that you didn't mention that George Shearing played in his trio, especially since you showed a picture of Shearing together with Oscar. I recently listened to an interview with the great Chuck Israels, who said that Oscar was "far and away" the best bassist ever. Chuck's no slouch himself.
Please, a let's check out about Wilbur Ware? Thanks o lot
Great information and appreciation learn more and more about the pioneer of a jazz family I wonder is it them that created the mpls sound 😎just joking. Oscar Pettiford was a Maverick. Just like you bro. Keep up the good work .
Really nice video on Oscar! Please check out my Donna Lee take 3 , it’s pretty good ha ha
Not to be confused with Niels Pedersen, which is what I almost did.
OP and Niels both lived in Copenhagen. Atilla told me he and OP were apartment-mates there. He said OP was a little on the wild side! (Coming from Atilla that was saying something!) Atilla wrote a really interesting blues called Blues Macabre or Homage to O.P. We would play the line unison in and out. Really love your content, Paul. Thanks so much. Hope to meet you sometime. Both parents went to WVU and as a child we drove from Philly every summer to visit my grandmother who lived on High Street there. Thanks for your homage to O.P. Wonderful!
I wish I could get back to hear the onyx club group, if only . By the way I just uploaded a good version of Donna Lee take 3 . Please have a listen
Left us too early…