Just ran into this guitar hero at LAX airport. What a thrill to see him walking along with his long hair, trilby hat and a guitar in gig bag slung over his shoulder looking as cool and relaxed as can be. I think I must have been the only person who knew who he was. Awesome.
Man, I envy Robben. He travels around the world creating great music with other great musicians, yet he is not too famous so won't be pestered for autographs and selfies in public places. I would rather be like Robben than be the richest and most powerful man in the world.
@@user-dz3ie5me2t Yep - he's in the sweet spot! I regret not going up to him, actually. I would love to have said hi and told him how grateful I was for his music.
Robben is one of those geniuses who OWNS the tone - be it a dry clean tone or a reverb-y overdriven one. I could listen to him playing this stuff for hours.
Great to see this early days Robben Ford, more jazzy than today. There's some Sco within his playing, that's just great. Nowadays his playing is totally unique, it's awesome to spot some propable influences, hehe. Nice vid!
Outstanding performance from Robben Ford, who combines a blues man's fervor with a jazz man's economy... This was from a great series of shows put together by ( I believe ) either Concord or Blue Note records. There's another show in the series titled "All Strings Attached", which is a jazz guitar spectacular featuring the legendary Tal Farlow playing along side John Abercrombie, Larry Carlton, Larry Coryell and John Scofield. I highly recommend it.
He looks even younger in the photos I've seen when he was playing with Miles. Definitely jazzier than his playing today. This must be Tom Scott and the LA Express who he credits with teaching him how to play jazz. Sounds like he was coming along nicely in this vid. Thanks for posting. I haven't seen any media of Robben during this phase of his career.
It's amazing how Robben playing had morphed almost overnight.. here I can just about hear little seedlings of his fully developed style evident later on " Talk to your daughter." onwards, but if listen to his earlier recordings / bootlegs ( when he was into Michael Bloomfield , ) it's like not the same person playing.. the influenced now the powerhouse influencer. .It goes to show that it takes time for every fruit to mature..
In fact at that time that Fender wasn't a RF signature but just the Spirit (or a name like that) if i remember well. That Fender serie didn't have much success but was awsome guitar and if i look back, i should have bought me one...
@@easyguitare This was the Standard Fender Esprit he recorded Talk to your daughter album with. I think he bought on sunset when touring with Joni mitchell.
@@Hendrix67297 Yeah ... great album BTW : i spent a lot of time on the solis from that album. I miss the time when Robben was playing long licks like in this video. He says he's not comfortable with those and is still wondering on how a John Scofield or Mike Stern can do that but still, i really enjoyed when he was doing it at the time & also with Miles ...
Yes Robben does seem great in the big band kinda setup. I would love to see RF in a complete big band setup if it's possible I dont know when!! Great music.
He actually has done a full concert with a big band. "Midnight Comes Too Soon" - Robben Ford & hr-Bigband ^That's the name of the video but there are many others. Hopefully you enjoy!
Does anyone recognize a very young friend musician of a major collaborator with Robben, IN CONCERTS & RECORDINGS like COMMON GROUND - playing the larger, deeper octave Sax (Alto or Tenor?) - those amazing chops of BILL EVANS the saxophonist & other instruments(in the middle) looking out of his beautiful eyes, so handsome always!!
Robben Ford has always displayed a high level of musicianship, tone,and cleanliness in his solos.This may be a jazz standard but the accompaniment is straight forward funk though. Anyway, Mr Ford navigates fluently in any style related to electric guitar.. Mariano Vico from Havana Cuba.
Here's the actual song "It Don't Mean a Thing" from the Ellington tribute (don't know what song they're playing in the video posted): ruclips.net/video/7gnQ2CO4kwg/видео.html As for the jazz or blues debate, when Robben was 19, playing with Charlie Musselwhite and then brothers Mark and Pat in the Charles Ford Band, he mixed jazz into his blues and vice versa - within a solo and within a set list. The Ford Band might play a Little Walter song ("I Had My Fun) or B.B. tune ("Help the Poor") and then shift gears to a Coltrane song, like "Mr. Day." 46 years after they disbanded, their influence can still be heard in Northern California - especially Robben's. When the brothers broke up, Robben was hired to lead Jimmy Witherspoon's group. During that period, he was part of a Guitar Explosion concert at Berkeley Community Theater, and stole the show - which also featured Kenny Burrell, Jim Hall, Mary Osborne, Roy Buchanan, Herb Willis & Joe Pass, Shuggie Otis, and T-Bone Walker. For his short set, he played a B.B.-style shuffle rendition of "Little Red Rooster" (blues) and an original Sonny Rollins-esque calypso called "For You" (jazz). He excelled at, and was at home in, both contexts.
It’s a pleasure to come across this video of a young Robben Ford both _‘paying his dues’_ as a jazz guitarist, and developing his own in~out style of playing, so thank you for that, Ted, but I have to add it’s bad manner to cut up a tune and give it to watch and hear starting in the middle… for what? so that listeners won’t have to suffer one minute or so of intro’ before Robben launches his solo?? In fact, it is more disorientating than facilitating for the listener, on such sophisticated music. Here’s that whole *“It don’t mean a thing…”* interpretation _(8’30“ into the clip)_ : ruclips.net/video/cOBSWZjfiiw/видео.htmlm30s …where one can also see young *Tom Scott* on the left of the blowers trio and Randy Brecker on the right. In the 90s, I really liked Tom Scott’s music as much as Robben Ford’s, and it’s interesting to hear where he was at in 1986-1987 _(i.e. not quite with that later powerful voice of his own yet, as bluesy/churchy as Robben’s and even more exhilarating)._
If you want an extra couple million views you should just change the title to "Amazing John Mayer Jazz Solo... RARE!!" That'd probably do it... and half the people would never even know, lol.
Love the tasty licks here! To all those who find fault with this solo, I'd like to see you do better! In fact, now's your chance. Post your video here and show us you can do better. Being a copy of the old jazz players does not make you superior and does not prove a thing. Enough said. Post away guitar TARDS. lol.
For those who still do not understand what happened when Ford and the sax player started playing one after the other, please learn what "trading" means in the context of jazz improvisation. And please stop saying things like "Ford got lost..., he got a nasty look from the sax player..., it was his turn…" You do not know what you are talking about.
Always loved Robben Ford's playing. But of all the guitars he's played, the Fender Espirit has always been the sound I liked the least. I think the concept he and Dan Smith came up with had good intentions. But to my ears the Espirit sounds anemic and flat with no much presence; just has no 'oomph'...LOL! Even had a chance to play a couple of these guitars and found my personal assessments to be the same.
I agree with this. In his earlier work he most played a 335 and got a huge, beefy, slightly woody tone out of it. The Esprit always seemed a little effeminate to me. I wonder why he liked it so much.
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Just ran into this guitar hero at LAX airport. What a thrill to see him walking along with his long hair, trilby hat and a guitar in gig bag slung over his shoulder looking as cool and relaxed as can be. I think I must have been the only person who knew who he was. Awesome.
U should have talke with him stupid..
@@ashishrai4023 Don't be so rude.
Man, I envy Robben. He travels around the world creating great music with other great musicians, yet he is not too famous so won't be pestered for autographs and selfies in public places. I would rather be like Robben than be the richest and most powerful man in the world.
@@user-dz3ie5me2t Yep - he's in the sweet spot! I regret not going up to him, actually. I would love to have said hi and told him how grateful I was for his music.
Robben is one of those geniuses who OWNS the tone - be it a dry clean tone or a reverb-y overdriven one. I could listen to him playing this stuff for hours.
Seems like I revisit this video a couple of times a year. So inspiring!
I've never heard an upright bass sound so funky
Love Robben clean- cut and Killin' it
Great to see this early days Robben Ford, more jazzy than today. There's some Sco within his playing, that's just great. Nowadays his playing is totally unique, it's awesome to spot some propable influences, hehe. Nice vid!
I hear some Sco in there too.
Same! But in a non ripoff-y, and still very personal way
@@mnelson56 what came first? the chicken or the egg??
Beautiful playing.
Thank you for sharing that!!! Such a fan of his music
I love the descending bass figure underneath Robbens solo.Very cool.
Robben Ford is great... and the rare Fender Esprit also!
He REALLY makes musicians around him look Happier when he is on fire
Thanks for sharing this video!!!!
Outstanding performance from Robben Ford, who combines a blues man's fervor with a jazz man's economy...
This was from a great series of shows put together by ( I believe ) either Concord or Blue Note records.
There's another show in the series titled "All Strings Attached", which is a jazz guitar spectacular featuring the legendary Tal Farlow playing along side John Abercrombie, Larry Carlton, Larry Coryell and John Scofield. I highly recommend it.
This has got it all. Brilliant.
Love the quotes from West Side Story! So smooth, a master so young already. You can’t learn that kind of talent unfortunately 😀
Quote once, it's hip; same quote twice: it's a shtick. Sorry!
you have to love this
Amazing guitarist..
He looks even younger in the photos I've seen when he was playing with Miles. Definitely jazzier than his playing today. This must be Tom Scott and the LA Express who he credits with teaching him how to play jazz. Sounds like he was coming along nicely in this vid. Thanks for posting. I haven't seen any media of Robben during this phase of his career.
It's amazing how Robben playing had morphed almost overnight.. here I can just about hear little seedlings of his fully developed style evident later on " Talk to your daughter." onwards, but if listen to his earlier recordings / bootlegs ( when he was into Michael Bloomfield , ) it's like not the same person playing.. the influenced now the powerhouse influencer.
.It goes to show that it takes time for every fruit to mature..
This is great, with Robben on his signature Fender and Tom Scott laying it down.
In fact at that time that Fender wasn't a RF signature but just the Spirit (or a name like that) if i remember well. That Fender serie didn't have much success but was awsome guitar and if i look back, i should have bought me one...
@@easyguitare
This was the Standard Fender Esprit he recorded Talk to your daughter album with.
I think he bought on sunset when touring with Joni mitchell.
@@Hendrix67297 Yeah ... great album BTW : i spent a lot of time on the solis from that album. I miss the time when Robben was playing long licks like in this video. He says he's not comfortable with those and is still wondering on how a John Scofield or Mike Stern can do that but still, i really enjoyed when he was doing it at the time & also with Miles ...
The great Robben Ford.
Rockin' Robben!
Yes Robben does seem great in the big band kinda setup. I would love to see RF in a complete big band setup if it's possible I dont know when!! Great music.
He actually has done a full concert with a big band.
"Midnight Comes Too Soon" - Robben Ford & hr-Bigband
^That's the name of the video but there are many others. Hopefully you enjoy!
amazing how clean Robben solos over the chords at about 1:44 or so, unreal!!!
Sonny Cannon Charlie Parker's Bebop lick :D
The horns are Tom Scott (soloing), Bill Evans and Randy Brecker.
Does anyone recognize a very young friend musician of a major collaborator with Robben, IN CONCERTS & RECORDINGS like COMMON GROUND - playing the larger, deeper octave Sax (Alto or Tenor?) - those amazing chops of BILL EVANS the saxophonist & other instruments(in the middle) looking out of his beautiful eyes, so handsome always!!
Seeing Robben Ford play gives me an odd mixture of joy, entertainment, and despair...
So very cool 😎
Fender Japan put out a high end line of solid body and hollowbody guitars around 1984.Robin endorsed the model shown in this video.
So Cool!!!
Blimey,never knew this existed.Fantastic.So young and fresh faced!
Maybe a bit jazzier then,as Andre says but his blues roots are still plain to see.
excellent
Robben Ford looks so sharp
Love to see Robben Ford / Colin James on stage.
I love both actually.
@1:58.. that look another bandmate gives you when they think you need to quit playing your solo and let someone else take over. :)
Yup, NOT cool.
Amazing solo from Robben but that's no surprise. How about those killer bass lines though?
Robben Ford has always displayed a high level of musicianship, tone,and cleanliness in his solos.This may be a jazz standard but the accompaniment is straight forward funk though. Anyway, Mr Ford navigates fluently in any style related to electric guitar.. Mariano Vico from Havana Cuba.
Robbens deep man! I can tell he took private! lessons man! ;.D
Thats a GREAT One Ted Thanks for sharinggg TOP!
Thats Tom Scott on Sax, he a Robben both played in the L.A. EXPRESS together for Joni Mitchel...
I have that album and a couple LA Express albums, great stuff, Joni could sure pick em I have a copy years later with Joni ,Pat Metheny and Jaco .
@@frankd.506 Yes she could, I think she will go down in history as one the greatest Song writers, musician, and music producers of her time...
Bill Evans on tenor and Randy Brecker on trumpet. Who are the other musicians???
its that Bill Evans on the second sax'
The bass player was killin’ it. Who was that masked man?
Andrew-Simpkins on bass.
wasn't that Fender called the 'Esprit' first?
You are correct
YES!!
@nateandguitar Hahaha! Thanks for the laugh, I needed that.
ruclips.net/video/HstdR-lAzqU/видео.html
Do much younger...like his High School days here in Ukiah, when he played Tenor Sax in the band.
Killer axe, too. You don't see those Fender models much anymore.
I agree! Check out Garth Webber's RUclips channel - that's his main guitar and he gets a fantastic sound with that guitar, too.
Great 00:19 quote L. Bernstein!!!!
いいなあ😃サンキュー😉👍🎶
Was that Michael Brecker afterwards?
He's only gotten better with age!
I was going to point out the ironic lack of swing in this song, but I was too engrossed by the playing.
Tom Scott, sax?
Robben with short hair awesome guitarist.
@jazzlefty: Yes it is.
Great RF
OMG, when was this recorded, like 1914?
Here's the actual song "It Don't Mean a Thing" from the Ellington tribute (don't know what song they're playing in the video posted):
ruclips.net/video/7gnQ2CO4kwg/видео.html
As for the jazz or blues debate, when Robben was 19, playing with Charlie Musselwhite and then brothers Mark and Pat in the Charles Ford Band, he mixed jazz into his blues and vice versa - within a solo and within a set list. The Ford Band might play a Little Walter song ("I Had My Fun) or B.B. tune ("Help the Poor") and then shift gears to a Coltrane song, like "Mr. Day." 46 years after they disbanded, their influence can still be heard in Northern California - especially Robben's.
When the brothers broke up, Robben was hired to lead Jimmy Witherspoon's group. During that period, he was part of a Guitar Explosion concert at Berkeley Community Theater, and stole the show - which also featured Kenny Burrell, Jim Hall, Mary Osborne, Roy Buchanan, Herb Willis & Joe Pass, Shuggie Otis, and T-Bone Walker. For his short set, he played a B.B.-style shuffle rendition of "Little Red Rooster" (blues) and an original Sonny Rollins-esque calypso called "For You" (jazz). He excelled at, and was at home in, both contexts.
How interesting, thanks. Here's the whole version of that song with the extracted solo: ruclips.net/video/hkjxDk5SJdA/видео.htmlm38s
Why can't people just enjoy his great playing instead of trying to pigeon hole him into a certain style!
(sigh of relief) absolutely
Tony Alles
Word!!!
Because they can't achieve that level. Its to technical for them.
Technical and musical... do not forget!
Totally-Listen to the music without labelling it, in your pompous,snotty voice of Jazz.
Wow Robben had really short hair in this vid when was this recorded?
0:23
Tom Scott!
What show was this?
@smauro3 LOL, nice catch.
Anyone know what date this was filmed?
Hi, the laserdisc was released in 1989. www.allmusic.com/album/echoes-of-ellington-vol-2-mw0000195562
It’s a pleasure to come across this video of a young Robben Ford both _‘paying his dues’_ as a jazz guitarist, and developing his own in~out style of playing, so thank you for that, Ted, but I have to add it’s bad manner to cut up a tune and give it to watch and hear starting in the middle… for what? so that listeners won’t have to suffer one minute or so of intro’ before Robben launches his solo??
In fact, it is more disorientating than facilitating for the listener, on such sophisticated music.
Here’s that whole *“It don’t mean a thing…”* interpretation _(8’30“ into the clip)_ :
ruclips.net/video/cOBSWZjfiiw/видео.htmlm30s
…where one can also see young *Tom Scott* on the left of the blowers trio and Randy Brecker on the right. In the 90s, I really liked Tom Scott’s music as much as Robben Ford’s, and it’s interesting to hear where he was at in 1986-1987 _(i.e. not quite with that later powerful voice of his own yet, as bluesy/churchy as Robben’s and even more exhilarating)._
You want killer chops? Check out this tune with Jimmy Rosenberg and Frank Vignola.
If you want an extra couple million views you should just change the title to "Amazing John Mayer Jazz Solo... RARE!!" That'd probably do it... and half the people would never even know, lol.
yes - he does look a bit like john mayer's dad in this one : )
💛😃❤️🎶
He's stepping all over that sax player.....
Yup, NOT cool.
Love the tasty licks here! To all those who find fault with this solo, I'd like to see you do better! In fact, now's your chance. Post your video here and show us you can do better. Being a copy of the old jazz players does not make you superior and does not prove a thing. Enough said. Post away guitar TARDS. lol.
The irony of this is hilarious. But I don't fault Robben. He's doing his thing.
Why is the top related video "Slipknot Guitar Lesson"? WTF??
They were referring to Robben wearing that tie
This sounds like Slipknot to me
@@jazzercaster4749 🤣
Be kinda cool if he broke out that fender he is using in this era of his career again.
Lion King quote at 0:18
Tom scott sax, bill evans sax, Randy Brecker trompet i dont remenber the rest
@riktok hahahah yes!
this is the real deal here but not the correct title
Is it me, or does he look like the karate kid here? Will Steve Vai show up?
Haha! I guess Ralph Macchio has some talents besides karate and acting that we never knew.
Whats the guitar? Framus?
Fender Esprit.
I didn’t recognize him with his shirt buttoned
LOL!
For those who still do not understand what happened when Ford and the sax player started playing one after the other, please learn what "trading" means in the context of jazz improvisation. And please stop saying things like "Ford got lost..., he got a nasty look from the sax player..., it was his turn…" You do not know what you are talking about.
Hell, I was waiting for that other genius Bill Evans to kick off his solo... not there 😭
@Kapteinar word
my name is ford Robben Ford 00 major 7.
Sweet
Yeah, can definitely see the similarity to Sco, although Robben looks a bit inhibited.
That looks like Tom Scott on sax.
sco protocol vibe
Not keen on his tone here, but love the guy and his playing.
Always loved Robben Ford's playing. But of all the guitars he's played, the Fender Espirit has always been the sound I liked the least. I think the concept he and Dan Smith came up with had good intentions. But to my ears the Espirit sounds anemic and flat with no much presence; just has no 'oomph'...LOL! Even had a chance to play a couple of these guitars and found my personal assessments to be the same.
I agree with this. In his earlier work he most played a 335 and got a huge, beefy, slightly woody tone out of it. The Esprit always seemed a little effeminate to me. I wonder why he liked it so much.
Oh dear.
definitely quotes the lion king at 0:18.
For those who doesn't hear swing it's because you ain't got it yet. Try and listen for the 16 beat steady swing all the way through.
go cat go
sure looks like John Mayer
Notice, he threw fancy guitars away, got back to old school
@@detroitfunk313 he doesnt play it anymore
in fact he doesnt use the fourth finger! And I guess he nods like Spock!