Ed Bickert
Ed Bickert has taken Jim Hall's dark-toned chordal style to a new high
both in his solo recordings and with other artists. One of my favorite
albums is Paul Desmond's Pure Desmond. Below are two selections
from that album.
- Mean To Me
- Ed plays a chord solo that is both melodic and harmonically
miraculous.
- Just Squeeze Me
- Another flawless chord solo with a reference back to the
underlying Elington melody line. The richness of Ed's voicings is
such that Paul Desmond once said that he would look
to see how many guitarists there actually were back there.