Julian Bream

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 14 Aug 2020 2:38 am

An adventurous, brilliant guitarist and lute player. His ears were a lot more wide open to all genres of music than many classical musicians. He played jazz, rock and Indian classical music. He was a very musical player, not just a technician - and a big Django fan!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/ ... es-aged-87

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 14 Aug 2020 10:54 am

Thanks for posting that, Andy. I had forgotten all about him. What a master.

Ian Rae · Post by **Ian Rae** » 14 Aug 2020 11:00 am

He was already so firmly established when I was a kid 50 years ago that I would have assumed he was long gone.

I must revisit his work.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 14 Aug 2020 11:39 am

My favorite for feel and expression. Probably because his dad was a jazz player and he was a Django fan before he found Bach, the lute, etc.

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 14 Aug 2020 12:13 pm

Bream was so brilliant. I saw him perform once a very long time ago in Cambridge in a small hall, I forget which one - I was young, my dad took me, he was really into lute music. Mind blowing. RIP Maestro.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 14 Aug 2020 1:19 pm

Full circle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYCefndTiPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g69B5S7t_lA

Edward Efira · Post by **Edward Efira** » 14 Aug 2020 3:19 pm

And also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnB8E_N6M1Q

Godfrey Arthur · Post by **Godfrey Arthur** » 17 Aug 2020 4:24 pm

Godspeed Julian

I was a devotee of the Bream school.

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 18 Aug 2020 4:50 am

His dad was a jazz guitarist and thought Julian would never make a career playing classical. “There is only one classical guitarist in the world, and it can’t support two.” When accepted at music college, he was told to keep his guitar at home and focus on piano. He refused and dropped out of school instead. When told his lute playing was inauthentic based on new scholarship, he stopped playing lute until he could master the correct techniques. And when he broke his arm, he had them reset it in optimum position to play guitar.