Now have you heard of him?
I would certainly not presume to speak for Jimmy, but I get the sense he prefers to let his playing do the talking for him. He does not post a website, and stops in here, where he prefers to speak on a musician to musician basis, for which we are all very grateful. I hope I have respectfully and correctly spoken to this.
The 'Rio Funk' clip is exactly why I always gravitate to guys like Double J and Anthony Jackson: They play to the song.
No doubt about it, he got 'all of it', certainly; but no amount of NAMM-show, super chopped, slap happy fireworks that derails the whole train will EVER replace mature
musicianship that serves the song.
I can accept I could never play like that, I just wish I could have that grasp of inversions and talking from both ends of the neck, something Jimmy has made his own, those leaps are just terrifying.
It did make feel a little better, that just like some of my old gigs, right when you're really mining a groove, somebody has to tack on a cover tune at the end !
J o e y
(Message edited by bigredbass on April 24, 2011)
