Julian Bream playing Viper's Dream!

jmcgann

RCA became BMG became something else, and along the way they stripped all the album concept out in order to make CDs of all the same era, you know, the "Spanish" CDs, the "Modern That Will Upset Your Dinner Companion" CDs etc...even that big box set is that way.

I saw Bream and Williams in the 80's and Bream's last solo tour in the mid '90's. Incredible stuff. Gotta love that he's a Djangophile to boot!

Indian Jones was originally played by Julian Marshall, inventor of the Les Paul guitar :twisted:

stubla

Breams love of Django is well known but his love for jazz has been overdone;he's stated on more than one occasion(eg. in Tony Palmer's book 'Life on the road') that he chose classical music over jazz because jazz lacks the profundity he seeks in music.
The greatest classical guitarist bar none.
stu

jmcgann

Just remember: it's not enough to succeed; others must fail!

:twisted: :roll: :twisted:

frater

A wise choice: he certainly wouldn't have been the greatest in Jazz...

jmcgann

Nor would Django have been the greatest in classical...nobody has it all, at least on guitar (Eddie Daniels is not too shabby on clarinet in both worlds...).

And who cares! Long live the great diversity of all kinds of great players in all idioms!!!

kimmo

jmcgann wrote:

(Eddie Daniels is not too shabby on clarinet in both worlds...).

Nor was Charlie Christian's clarinet player...

Stringswinger

Charlie Byrd once said that he became a jazz guitarist (on the classical guitar) when he realized that he did not have enough innate talent to become a great classical player.

Heretic

Pure class, that is. Makes you proud to be British!