
LENNY BREAU
Não vá pensar que são dois guitarristas, porque quem está tocando direto, ao vivo, sem overdubbing, é o grande Lenny Breau, um dos segredos mais bem guardados do grande público, embora seja um ícone, uma legenda para os guitarristas. Seu estilo é uma mistura de country, guitarra espanhola, jazz e música clássica. Sua técnica assombrosa faz a guitarra de 7 cordas soar como um piano - não por acaso o músico que mais o influenciou harmônicamente foi...BILL EVANS . Lenny, além da digitação usual, utiliza a técnica de "tapping" que consiste em percutir as cordas da guitarra com a ponta dos dedos. (Essa técnica se tornou conhecida do grande público através do guitarrista Stanley Jordan e muita gente pensa ter sido ele o seu criador, o que não é verdade. Muitos guitarristas, incluindo Lenny Breau, já a utilizavam antes.)
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LENNY BREAU
Lenny Breau (August 5, 1941–August 12, 1984) was a Canadian guitarist. He was known for blending many styles of music including: country, classical, flamenco and jazz guitar. Breau, inspired by country guitarists like Chet Atkins, used fingerstyle techniques not often used in jazz guitar. Breau was born August 5, 1941, in
Auburn, Maine. His francophone parents were professional country and western musicians. Their son began playing guitar at the age of eight. When he was twelve years old he started a little band with friends, and by the age of fourteen he was the lead guitarist for his parents' band, Breau made his first professional recordings in Westbrook, Maine at the age of 15 while working as a studio musician. Around 1959 Lenny Breau left his parents' band after his father slapped him in the face for improvising on stage. The pianist Bob Erlendson, began teaching him more of the foundations of jazz. Breau's fully matured technique was a combination of Atkins and Travis fingerpicking and Sabicas-influenced flamenco, highlighted by extraordinary right hand independence and flurries of artificial harmonics. His
harmonic sensibilities were a combination of his country roots, classical, modal, Indian, and especially jazz, particularly the work of pianist Bill Evans.Breau had continual drug problems from the mid 1960s, which he managed to get under control during the last years of his life. On August 12, 1984 his body was found in a swimming pool at his apartment complex in Los Angeles, California. The coroner reported that he had been strangled. His wife Jewel Breau was the chief suspect in the case but she was never charged with his murder and the case is still unsolved.
(Source: wikipedia)
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MINHA OPINIÃO - a trágica e misteriosa morte de Lenny nos privou do seu enorme talento e criatividade precocemente. Foi um músico extraordinário, elegante e "classy", com um estilo personalíssimo, rico em harmonia e linearidade nos solos extremamente critativos. O próprio Lenny definiu seu estilo assim: "Enfoco la guitarra como un piano. He alcanzado un punto donde transciendo el instrumento. Muchas de las cosas que toco en la guitarra de siete cuerdas son en un principio técnicamente imposibles, pero he pasado más de veinte años resolviéndolas. Toco la guitarra como un piano, siempre hay dos cosas sucediendo a la vez. Pienso en la melodía a la vez que pienso en el fondo". A performance de Lenny é uma verdadeira aula de guitarra: sua extraordinária independência das mãos, a fluência do fraseado, as notas precisas, o repertório impecável, tudo junto vira OURO EM PÓ!
(*) Um detalhe importante: a guitarra de 7 cordas de Lenny é diferente das convencionais, onde a sétima corda é a mais grave, afinada em si. Na dele, a sétima corda é um lá, agudo, responsável pela sonoridade diferente e personalissima.
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LENNY BREAU : Live at Bourbon Street
PERSONNEL:
Lenny Breau - 7 strings guitar
Dave Young - bass
CD1
1. There Is No Greater Love
2. If You Could See Me Now
3. On Green Dolphin Street
4. Summertime
5. Quiet and Blue
6. All Blues
7. I Fall in Love Too Easily
8. All the Things You Are
9. My Foolish Heart
CD2
1.Vision
2. Blues in My Case
3. My Funny Valentine
4. What Is This Thing Called Love?
5. Beautiful People
6. Two Lonely People
7. There Will Never Be Another You
8.Riot-Chous
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