Scott Henderson regarding Ted Greene.
ScotGormley
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I took a lesson with him and hung out with him when he was teaching
occasionally at GIT. I can only say what everyone says about Ted - he
was a true genius. He made some unusual career choices, since most
musicians with that level of talent are always making records and
touring, but Ted just wanted a quiet life of teaching his students,
and as far as I know, he only made one record. It's a great record,
but it doesn't even scratch the surface of what Ted was able to do.
His harmonic vocabulary was so huge that it seemed endless to me. Not
only that, he could improvise with that harmony in an ensemble style,
playing the melody, chords and bass at the same time. He could
improvise multiple moving lines in the style of classical music, but
with modern harmony. What really killed me is when he would play R&B
tunes - his time was perfect and he could groove his ass off, while
playing some ridiculously complicated shit. Ted was a true master, and
in my opinion, no other guitarist has come closer to Zawinul's level
of composition through improvising.
Docbop
Ted was incredible. Growing up in SoCal me and my friends first
heard of Ted back in the 60's when he was tearing it up playing rock
and blues. I remember hiring Ted to get a guitar clinic back when I
worked at Grove's. It was typical most the students into rock/
shredding so weren't paying attention to Ted and noodling. First
time I saw Ted get upset, but he said you guys know I've played....
and he cranked his guitar dropped his head and ripped offer an amazing
Clapton-esqe solo. Then he stopped and looked up and said, but I grew
up. After that he had their attention the rest of the clinic.
Tim McNamara
<b5478f70-e737-4d5b...@8g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
ScotGormley <scot.g...@yahoo.com> wrote:
There was one record released during his life but there is more stuff
being released now, including a recording of Ted on guitar with Chuck
Domanico on bass and Shelley Mann on drums. It's good.
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