Retro Chicken

I don’t know why but for some reason I am completely obsessed with Jaco these days. I was searching around You Tube and found an amazing trio version of the Weather Report classic “Teen Town” (it is incredibly fast and Jaco quotes “Third Stone from the Sun” – how can you get any better?), featuring a guitar player I have never heard of - Bireli Lagrene.

I looked him up on Wikipedia and they said he was a gypsy prodigy (learned the Django repertoire by the time he was eight, that kind of thing), and I vaguely remembered seeing him in Guitar Player magazine. But then I found this and wow – why isn’t Bireli Legrene a household name? Listen and be amazed.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 at 1:11 am and is filed under Ethnic Chicken, Jaco, Jazz Chicken.