Jim Mullen videos
Graham
2008:
Emily:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I0cQ_HMM8Q
Joyspring:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khsqNhzxRlo
Summertime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb8kSdsN0os
For those not familiar with Jim, a point of interest is that he plays
with his thumb (like Wes) and never uses a pick.
Graham
Paul Mitchell Brown
Thanks for those. Jim's a monster player and musician.
RB
wrote:
AGREED. I just rewatched this today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNGpCSDSQMM&feature=related
The solo on that (rhythm) is one of the greatest solos I know of on
rhythm on gtr. Truly ASTOUNDINGLY creative
Bill Williams
> rhythm on gtr. Truly ASTOUNDINGLY creative
Tremendous.
(Incidentally I notice Jim was playing a cheapo Aria FA71).
Bill
Zoran Cvetkovic
Jim Mullen is a gem!
Zoran
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Wow! What a great player. First I heard of him.
Hack
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Graham
never seemed able to get any straight-ahead jazz CDs out. Fortunately
that seems to have changed in the last 10 years and he now has several
good jazz CDs available.
Apart from being a master of (sometimes outrageous) quotes, Jim does a
neat thing where he plays a famous tune which has nothing to do with
jazz and turns it into a good jazz vehicle. I saw him play 'Nessun
Dorma' as a jazz ballad once, and he really made it work somehow. He
also has some good one-liners, such as announcing that due to the age
of the band, they are going to play 'Stairlift to the Stars'. This
kind of thing really wins over the audience.
Graham
fourstring
I had the pleasure of playing support to the
Morrisey-Mullen band a few times .
Lovely guy and what a player!.
I've also played that gig in Tun.wells pantiles...
a freezing cold wind blows straight through
that bandstand!
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I've been rewatching that one ever since it went up a few years ago,
and I always have the same reaction you do.
335
unbelievable that he plays uptempo 16th note lines so cleanly with
just the thumb.
pmfan57
Yes! I remember that one. That is a kick ass solo for sure.
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>
> unbelievable that he plays uptempo 16th note lines so cleanly with
> just the thumb.
Looks like he might be playing upstrokes with pollex.
drthoma...@gmail.com
Richard
Zoran Cvetkovic
http://www.emusic.com/album/Jim-Mullen-Live-In-Glasgow-MP3-Download/10783564.html
His paying over peach is brilliant in my ears.
Zoran
Gregg L
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>I can really recommend his Live CD
>
> http://www.emusic.com/album/Jim-Mullen-Live-In-Glasgow-MP3-Download/10783564.html
>
> His paying over peach is brilliant in my ears.
>
> Zoran
Payback, Zoran! Not available in USA.
Gregg
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Paul Mitchell Brown
Glad you dug it also, RB. Check out the 'Live in Glasgow' album that
Zoran mentioned. Great band and Jim's playing is so melodically
inventive and powerful.
Des Higgins
I saw him just once, in Dublin, in a duet with local guitarist Hugh
Buckley.
He is a big bloke with a Glasgow (or similar?) accent.
He is indeed very entertaining and amiable. It creates a good
atmosphere.
charles robinson
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Beware of old guys in sports coats that they look like they slept in ; they
will get you every time. I think thay we will be hearing a lot more about
him!
Charlie
Des Higgins
wrote:
> "Graham" <graham...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
One of his "tricks" is to sneak in a melody or riff or lick from a pop
or rock tune in the middle of a solo and him watch the audience
reaction with a big grin on his face.
You can hear him sneak in part of Moondance in the Summertime clip and
I can remember hearing him suddenly do the chord riff from Smoke on
the Water on a gig.
pmfan57
> On Mar 29, 12:41 pm, "charles robinson" <robinsonch...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
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> > "Graham" <graham...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >news:be9821ea-f2ac-44a6...@d27g2000yqf.googlegroups.com...
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> > > I've put up some videos of Scottish guitarist Jim Mullen taken in
> > > 2008:
>
> > > Emily:
> > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I0cQ_HMM8Q
>
> > > Joyspring:
> > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khsqNhzxRlo
>
> > > Summertime:
> > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb8kSdsN0os
>
> > > For those not familiar with Jim, a point of interest is that he plays
> > > with his thumb (like Wes) and never uses a pick.
>
> > > Graham
>
>
> > Beware of old guys in sports coats that they look like they slept in ; they
> > will get you every time. I think thay we will be hearing a lot more about
> > him!
> > Charlie
>
> One of his "tricks" is to sneak in a melody or riff or lick from a pop
> or rock tune in the middle of a solo and him watch the audience
> reaction with a big grin on his face.
> You can hear him sneak in part of Moondance in the Summertime clip and
> I can remember hearing him suddenly do the chord riff from Smoke on
>
> - Show quoted text -
He had several quotes from standards in the rhythm solo as well.
Lots of nice stuff.
Bill C
>
> One of his "tricks" is to sneak in a melody or riff or lick from a pop
> or rock tune in the middle of a solo and him watch the audience
> reaction with a big grin on his face.
> You can hear him sneak in part of Moondance in the Summertime clip and
> I can remember hearing him suddenly do the chord riff from Smoke on
> the Water on a gig.
I once saw Denny Ilett (another fine UK guitarist) play Jim at his own
game on this. They were trading fours on some uptempo tune near the
end of the set and - Jim being Scottish - Denny throws in the opening
bars of some well known Scottish folk dance tune - everyone cracked
up!
Zoran Cvetkovic
I really love that recording...
icarusi
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> Jim Mullen rocks!
The whole band does on those clips. I know how good Jim is but never heard
of Mike Gorman before.
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van
> He played a standard Tele for years.
> I had the pleasure of playing support to the
> Morrisey-Mullen band a few times .
> Lovely guy and what a player!.
> I've also played that gig in Tun.wells pantiles...
> a freezing cold wind blows straight through
> that bandstand!
> --
> -C-
>
>
You must know Terry Smith too.
What's he up to lately?
Sometimes Mullens gets a little too cutesy with his quotes ; ' )
"Shine On Harvest Moon" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Yes Sir That's
My Baby"?
Great player, though.
Swings.
And with his thumb!
Graham
is a highly undervalued commodity in jazz these days, in my opinion!
A lot of classic players like Bird, James Moody, Johnny Griffin etc.
used to do this all the time.
The great quote-meister has to be Dexter Gordon though. There's a
live record by Dexter (one of the 'Swiss Nights' LPs) where I'm
convinced he quotes 'Chicago' on every single tune and somehow it fits
every time. He must have had a bet on with the rest of the band that
night!
I'm curious about Terry Smith too - I used to see him play a lot round
South London years ago but have not heard of him for many years. I
think he had some health/drink problems. Wonderful player though.
Graham
fourstring
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I knew Terry when he first started playing...
with his back to the audience due to nerves!
He went through a bad spell including injuring
his hand but is out and doing it again but I've not
seen him for years.
-C-
The trouble with socialists is that sooner or
later they run out of everyone else's money.
Graham
is good news:
http://www.jazzcds.co.uk/artist_id_1005/cd_id_1281
Graham
van
I just ordered the Smith CD "Tenderly which is e10 (ten pounds?) and
agreed to pay by check.
I'm in the States and they want me to pay in pounds Sterling- what the
bloody hell should I do?
TIA
fourstring
Forget paying by check or direct
bank transfer.
Can't be done unless you have
a foreign currency payment facility
with your bank.
You could send a money order but
they are very expensive.
Pay by plastic...job done.
-C-
The trouble with socialists is that sooner or
later they run out of everyone else's money.
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Graham
on.
Graham
Bill C
paypal or credit card if they accept that - both will deal with the
currency conversion
van
Thanks guys, they wrote back to me and explained how the conversion
works.
It sounds like a good organization, the money goes directly to the
artists themselves, and the recording companies, or the artists
themselves provide the recording.
I bought Smith's recording from the 60s "Fallout" and loved it.
I've also got the four IF LPs.
My brother (the world's biggest IF fanatic) pointed out that it was
interesting how Smith's playing went from being rock-oriented to more
jazz-oriented with each IF LP, while back on "Fallout" he sounded like
the hippest British guitar player on the scene.
I guess Dick Morrissey and the boys were telling him how to play on
the first LP ; ' )
He still sounded great, no matter what style he played.
I caught him live twice in NY. Unforgettable experience.