Lenny's clean classical tone is the equal of anyone I've heard from Segovia to Julian Bream. He could have made a swell living just playing the classical guitar works. Even Wes Montgomery said, "Don't listen to anything I'm doing, but listen to this cat from Canada, Lenny Breau." Seeing Gene Lees on this documentary is beyond heavy - superb writer, reviewer, and wrote the English lyrics to some of Antonio Carlos Jobim's most famous songs.
@sitarnut10 күн бұрын
Judi Singh has one of the most beautiful voices I've heard in some eighty years of playing and listening to jazz.. Soul, intonation, phrasing, natural Vibrato...the works. Canada should create a "Judi Singh Day", put up statutes and honor her contributions. And then, there's the amazing Tom and Judi LP.
@burtmann392112 күн бұрын
A true gift from GOD. 😢
@JMTrucking141727 күн бұрын
If he dont look like Joe Namath i’ll eat my strat !!
@eargentinАй бұрын
❤❤❤❤
@eargentinАй бұрын
holi holi soy. ariel
@eargentinАй бұрын
holi. holi
@eargentinАй бұрын
hola les saludo a emma a. Tomi ia ISA
@eargentinАй бұрын
hola ariel
@eargentinАй бұрын
hola. tocas. bien
@eargentinАй бұрын
RREBIRN
@eargentinАй бұрын
hola quiero. tocar con. bos🎉
@ThatGoodSoundOn2 ай бұрын
song at 14:00 ?
@billbernhard35822 ай бұрын
Feel the feeling of immense gratitude accompanying these excerpts from Mr. Breau's brief passage through jazz. I'm reminded of the atmospherics around Chet Baker, but on a different, more gentle plane. Such a talent ! Enormously cerebral !
@joenania2 ай бұрын
hello Tal up there in Heaven from your old pal Joe Nania -
@williamwalsh62822 ай бұрын
Did Lenny ever cross paths with Joco?
@donnasingh18912 ай бұрын
I remember the first time I met Lenny…my aunt Judi brought him to a family gathering…he came to our house…taught my brothers a few things on the guitar. He as so sweet, gentle and shy. It was a few years before I realized what a guitarist he was…in fact I don’t think I really liked nderstood his amazing talent. His daughter Emily made this film…quite a film to watch for someone who knew a different Lenny.
@adivelcheva19683 ай бұрын
Wonderful video.
@johnfenner3473 ай бұрын
Absolutely Marvellous !. It’s one of the saddest observations of my life. That so many young people, getting into guitar music. will probably never hear or understand Dear Tal. It’s absolutely ghastly.
@davidbois26053 ай бұрын
what a gut punch: an immeasurable loss of an INCENDIARY talent. having grown up in Maine, i can recall / relay what a horrible gut punch was his passing. if the title is unknown to any who peep my comment here, go search for: "Brad Terry / Lenny Breau / Living Room Tapes" #yourewelcome :) ]
@midnightcassettelibrary51713 ай бұрын
Thank you making this touching documentary. Thank you Lenny for the musical gifts and may you rest in peace brother. Lately when I’ve been listening to his work I’ve been enjoying moments where he made his guitar also sound like a sitar, harp and recently heard a moment where it briefly sounded to my ears like an electric piano. Always investing surprises to be heard in his work.
This was a great video, and I laughed out loud at 7:56 thanks
@earlsabash18414 ай бұрын
A wonderful talent with great technical ability. His habit for drugs like Chet Baker kept him under the table. Their vocal phrasing and life style were in many respects extremely simular as depression and heroin destroyed their great ability to continue the preformance of great art.
@DaveLynchJazzGuitar5 ай бұрын
Tal was completely unique. I studied with him for a while. A beautiful soul. I miss him. Saw him play at clubs in NYC a number of times. This video is amazing. A great tribute to him. RIP TAL. 💖
@christijerome27335 ай бұрын
Good performance by the Legends of Guitar.
@atomicflash17535 ай бұрын
The film director of this is not a musician or fan , The viewer wants to see the fretboard of them playing in action not close ups of their hair for long periods of a Time
@jaytea426 ай бұрын
THE MAN!
@hollywoodjoe1236 ай бұрын
TAL FARLOW all over the place - playing outside - then back inside - just when it goes out there - HE comes back in - nobody has HIS mind - the chords - what are they ? - the harmonics - the riffs - scales- all seem to sound difference when TAL FARLOW plays them ! It is a language only HE knows and speaks yet it retains enough logic to stay musical - HOW ? - No one comes near TAL FARLOW !
@user-ke2fz7xn9v3 ай бұрын
maybe the paint thinners on those long nights
@augustusbetucius29316 ай бұрын
I wish the names of some of those people were. Who was the guy in the headband talking about Aldous Huxley? Also, what was the story about where someone slapped Lenny after telling him not to play that kind of music behind him ever again? It seems like some footage is missing
@JimMaisonneuve-ri9vg6 ай бұрын
Lenny came to town to play at the local club where I a hanger out. I met Lenny and he agreed to give me a lesson and he invited me to meet him at his motel. I arrived and he invited me in. I had brought my D18 which was tuned to open G. Lenny took the guitar out and started playing Black Mountain Rag! Unbelievable beautiful After Lenny said he had a appointment and couldn't give me a lesson. So we exchange our goodbyes!
@humanbeing53006 ай бұрын
Interesting that he died in circumstances similar to Brian Jones
@morganahoff22426 ай бұрын
I've heard that Lenny Breau wasn't good at nearly everything: he was terrible with money, not good in relationships, a bad driver...but man could he play guitar!
@berachtdorian61916 ай бұрын
His combination of knowledge and technique is without equal.
@tomcoryell6 ай бұрын
It was interesting hearing him play Bouree. I followed his column in Guitar Player magazine and the last part was based on Improvising over Bouree. The column ended abruptly of course when Lenny died. I was deeply saddened, but continued on learning Bouree by buying a cassette of Segovia playing Bouree and learning it that way. I can’t improvise over it like Lenny yet, but I’m retired now and have the time to work on it. Lenny definitely inspired me as a young guitar player. Thank you for this documentary!
@hellboundrubber44486 ай бұрын
The coroner reported that Breau had been strangled. Breau's wife, Jewel, was the chief suspect, but she was not charged.
@Libertariun6 ай бұрын
10:58 there’s a boat that’s leaving soon…
@guitarplayerfactorychannel6 ай бұрын
He was Mozart. Both had unmarked graves.
@Cantstandtherock6 ай бұрын
Lenny blew me away before Van Halen or anyone, what a player!
@tomcoryell6 ай бұрын
I cared nothing about Van Halen and studied Lenny’s column religiously. I didn’t know about his struggle with addiction.
@maineguitarists6 ай бұрын
When i read he was interred in an unmarked grave i almost got sick. How can someone of his talent and fame end up like this? His little brother Denny lives in Maine and performs locally often. Although not the jazz giant he plays different styles including fingerstyle, flat picking, banjo etc. And sings. I never go to see Lenny. RIP. tom
@sidstephen25846 ай бұрын
In the early 60s I was 19-20 yrs old and I lived for a couple of summers with a bunch of jazz musicians from Vancouver in Sylvan Lake, Alberta (long story ...) and heard LB for the first time - loved the man, loved his music, hated what the junk life did to him. PJ Perry (great Canadian jazz saxophonist) was there also, H ruined his youth too, but he kicked it. RIP Lenny.
@scottstanford38326 ай бұрын
Wow... thank you to Jeff Skunk Baxter for pointing this guy out to me!
@arianluna45486 ай бұрын
Thank you for making this documentary about your dad. His command of his instrument is Godlike. A rare breed.
@tripledotter95206 ай бұрын
Andy Summers talks about his guitar lesson with Lenny Breau and how he taught him about Harmonics in his recent interview on Rick Beato's channel.
@elmolewis91236 ай бұрын
It's been many years since I've seen this documentary. Thanks for sharing.
@JAYSONGS6 ай бұрын
Mark Ruffalo make the film. (The resemblance is close). Get a coach for us players so we cannot be ‘distracted’ (disappointed) by ‘visual inaccuracies’. Please, please, please?
@pgroove1636 ай бұрын
great artist... great documentary
@mikedegazio6 ай бұрын
saw him play in Berklee Boston Mass in 1975 truly stunning
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Lenny's clean classical tone is the equal of anyone I've heard from Segovia to Julian Bream. He could have made a swell living just playing the classical guitar works. Even Wes Montgomery said, "Don't listen to anything I'm doing, but listen to this cat from Canada, Lenny Breau." Seeing Gene Lees on this documentary is beyond heavy - superb writer, reviewer, and wrote the English lyrics to some of Antonio Carlos Jobim's most famous songs.
Judi Singh has one of the most beautiful voices I've heard in some eighty years of playing and listening to jazz.. Soul, intonation, phrasing, natural Vibrato...the works. Canada should create a "Judi Singh Day", put up statutes and honor her contributions. And then, there's the amazing Tom and Judi LP.
A true gift from GOD. 😢
If he dont look like Joe Namath i’ll eat my strat !!
❤❤❤❤
holi holi soy. ariel
holi. holi
hola les saludo a emma a. Tomi ia ISA
hola ariel
hola. tocas. bien
RREBIRN
hola quiero. tocar con. bos🎉
song at 14:00 ?
Feel the feeling of immense gratitude accompanying these excerpts from Mr. Breau's brief passage through jazz. I'm reminded of the atmospherics around Chet Baker, but on a different, more gentle plane. Such a talent ! Enormously cerebral !
hello Tal up there in Heaven from your old pal Joe Nania -
Did Lenny ever cross paths with Joco?
I remember the first time I met Lenny…my aunt Judi brought him to a family gathering…he came to our house…taught my brothers a few things on the guitar. He as so sweet, gentle and shy. It was a few years before I realized what a guitarist he was…in fact I don’t think I really liked nderstood his amazing talent. His daughter Emily made this film…quite a film to watch for someone who knew a different Lenny.
Wonderful video.
Absolutely Marvellous !. It’s one of the saddest observations of my life. That so many young people, getting into guitar music. will probably never hear or understand Dear Tal. It’s absolutely ghastly.
what a gut punch: an immeasurable loss of an INCENDIARY talent. having grown up in Maine, i can recall / relay what a horrible gut punch was his passing. if the title is unknown to any who peep my comment here, go search for: "Brad Terry / Lenny Breau / Living Room Tapes" #yourewelcome :) ]
Thank you making this touching documentary. Thank you Lenny for the musical gifts and may you rest in peace brother. Lately when I’ve been listening to his work I’ve been enjoying moments where he made his guitar also sound like a sitar, harp and recently heard a moment where it briefly sounded to my ears like an electric piano. Always investing surprises to be heard in his work.
his playing was so unique
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splendid
This was a great video, and I laughed out loud at 7:56 thanks
A wonderful talent with great technical ability. His habit for drugs like Chet Baker kept him under the table. Their vocal phrasing and life style were in many respects extremely simular as depression and heroin destroyed their great ability to continue the preformance of great art.
Tal was completely unique. I studied with him for a while. A beautiful soul. I miss him. Saw him play at clubs in NYC a number of times. This video is amazing. A great tribute to him. RIP TAL. 💖
Good performance by the Legends of Guitar.
The film director of this is not a musician or fan , The viewer wants to see the fretboard of them playing in action not close ups of their hair for long periods of a Time
THE MAN!
TAL FARLOW all over the place - playing outside - then back inside - just when it goes out there - HE comes back in - nobody has HIS mind - the chords - what are they ? - the harmonics - the riffs - scales- all seem to sound difference when TAL FARLOW plays them ! It is a language only HE knows and speaks yet it retains enough logic to stay musical - HOW ? - No one comes near TAL FARLOW !
maybe the paint thinners on those long nights
I wish the names of some of those people were. Who was the guy in the headband talking about Aldous Huxley? Also, what was the story about where someone slapped Lenny after telling him not to play that kind of music behind him ever again? It seems like some footage is missing
Lenny came to town to play at the local club where I a hanger out. I met Lenny and he agreed to give me a lesson and he invited me to meet him at his motel. I arrived and he invited me in. I had brought my D18 which was tuned to open G. Lenny took the guitar out and started playing Black Mountain Rag! Unbelievable beautiful After Lenny said he had a appointment and couldn't give me a lesson. So we exchange our goodbyes!
Interesting that he died in circumstances similar to Brian Jones
I've heard that Lenny Breau wasn't good at nearly everything: he was terrible with money, not good in relationships, a bad driver...but man could he play guitar!
His combination of knowledge and technique is without equal.
It was interesting hearing him play Bouree. I followed his column in Guitar Player magazine and the last part was based on Improvising over Bouree. The column ended abruptly of course when Lenny died. I was deeply saddened, but continued on learning Bouree by buying a cassette of Segovia playing Bouree and learning it that way. I can’t improvise over it like Lenny yet, but I’m retired now and have the time to work on it. Lenny definitely inspired me as a young guitar player. Thank you for this documentary!
The coroner reported that Breau had been strangled. Breau's wife, Jewel, was the chief suspect, but she was not charged.
10:58 there’s a boat that’s leaving soon…
He was Mozart. Both had unmarked graves.
Lenny blew me away before Van Halen or anyone, what a player!
I cared nothing about Van Halen and studied Lenny’s column religiously. I didn’t know about his struggle with addiction.
When i read he was interred in an unmarked grave i almost got sick. How can someone of his talent and fame end up like this? His little brother Denny lives in Maine and performs locally often. Although not the jazz giant he plays different styles including fingerstyle, flat picking, banjo etc. And sings. I never go to see Lenny. RIP. tom
In the early 60s I was 19-20 yrs old and I lived for a couple of summers with a bunch of jazz musicians from Vancouver in Sylvan Lake, Alberta (long story ...) and heard LB for the first time - loved the man, loved his music, hated what the junk life did to him. PJ Perry (great Canadian jazz saxophonist) was there also, H ruined his youth too, but he kicked it. RIP Lenny.
Wow... thank you to Jeff Skunk Baxter for pointing this guy out to me!
Thank you for making this documentary about your dad. His command of his instrument is Godlike. A rare breed.
Andy Summers talks about his guitar lesson with Lenny Breau and how he taught him about Harmonics in his recent interview on Rick Beato's channel.
It's been many years since I've seen this documentary. Thanks for sharing.
Mark Ruffalo make the film. (The resemblance is close). Get a coach for us players so we cannot be ‘distracted’ (disappointed) by ‘visual inaccuracies’. Please, please, please?
great artist... great documentary
saw him play in Berklee Boston Mass in 1975 truly stunning