Cut and gathered Jay Graydon’s great guitar solos in one track. It seems to me that Graydon’s solos are such small masterpieces that can be listened to separately.
Tracklist
Guitar solos from:
1. Airplay – After The Love Has Gone
2. Al Jarreau – Black and Blues
3. Alan Sorrenti–Per Sempre Tu
4. Manhattan Transfer – On The Boulevard
5. Airplay – It Will Be Alright
6. Steely Dan – Peg
7. Marc Jordan – I’m a Camera
8. Airplay – Nothin’ You Can Do About It
9. Peter Allen – Pass This Time
10. Jay Graydon – Roxann
11. Steve Kipner – The Ending
38 Comments
And don't forget all the Al Jarreau hits he wrote and produced. "Jay the Rake" is the soundtrack to all my favorites when I was younger. Still constantly listening to them all today. Jay is the MASTER of that California sound!!!!
he's not bad but neale schon would be marginally better, this fellow sounds like steve lukather or vice versa, neale is a bit more original, but ultimately its elevator music, not breakthrough seminal originality in the vein of clapton beck blackmore hendrix knopfler santana, carlos arguably started this over processed guitar tone but that Peg solo is outstanding and more organic sounding, a real delight and a treat!
and what about Say You'll Be Mine by Christopher Cross?
"Peg" is a his historical solo of course👍….there other great solo as in "the ending"…but where is the incredible solo of the Gino Vannelli's song "New fix of '76"? 🙂
ps: he's also a great songwriter and producer with no doubt ..but it's a pity the new generations really don't know him.
Magic of solo ! Each is a short history, not just a simple suite of notes, it's why is very pleasant to listen to, Thank you to be here
I finally get what jay grayson has always gone on about regarding guitar midrange, it pokes out in a nice way in the mix but in a nice way.
It’s so…smooth! 😎🌤🛳
I didn’t know he played on Black and Blues. I totally butcher that solo but now I know why and feel much better about it🤘😀
Most excellent, thanks for this! Jay Graydon is one of my favorite guitar players ever. I attended GIT in Hollywood in 1979-80 and Jay did a couple of seminars
at the school that were great. I also found a lot of these records in the discount bins at Moby Disc in Sherman Oaks. One man's trash is another man's treasure! Thanks again!
Nice! Thank you! Let me to some artists I didn't know about.
I love that!!! "Before pro tools, there were pros"!!!! These guys did these recordings in a couple takes. They were a statement to what kind of musicians there used to be in the industry. It's sad. A forgotten era.
#3 Alan Sorrenti’s Beside you – the solo goes throughout the whole song!! 🔥🔥
Before Pro Tools, there were multiple takes, with multiple musicians and overdubs… see Steely Dan
彼のギタープレイはまさに「全身鳥肌モン」ですね…！(≧∀≦)
Love this collection. Is it weird that I kinda want to Photoshop a Floyd rose nut on that picture just to freak out other guitarists. :). …. anyway thanks for putting this together
"Pros" not "pro's," which is possessive.
Several comments about his work with Gino Vanelli. The solo on "Where am I going" on Storm at Sunup is very progressive jazz. Not LA. sound More Larry Coryel. Very technical. BY THE WAY, Storm at Sunup is a top 10 album/cd of mine. Must have.
Here's a kick…bring up the video by Al Jarreau "Roof Garden". Jay is seen at the piano and looking super cool and dapper with shades, stash and grin.
I have always knew about Jay primarily from his Peg Solo. But lately my You Tube feed has be showing me some great videos of Jay, including this one, and I have started to grab his music from Apple Music and loading it on my phone and playing his stuff on Car Play. Based on these songs, I am creating a Jay Graydon playlist, plus downloading several of his albums.
The guitar licks in "After All" of Al Jarreau were short but sweet
Yeah, this guy has the sauce. He has great vibrato, bends, slide and punch, phrasing, and tone. But, to hit all that stuff in one take, you need to at least run through it a few times to know and feel all the changes and accents. But still, the man does it in that final take. We hear it compiled here, and makes it all sound sooo fine, like it fell out onto the tape that way without any warmup.
Jay Graydon , MIchael Sembello , Steve Lukather
one of the 80's Gems
Homework, for life, in a video.
and as great as luke is – he still can't reach graydon
next to Carlton- how wasn't gray not on the becker/fagan speed rolodex
awesome！ I love his works!
advice as a friend….maybe it's better that you listen to new fix for 76 by Gino Vannelli 😉
His Al stuff sounds incredibly dated, but the Steely Dan stuff–recorded in the same decade–sounds creative and fresh. Hmmm, what coulda' gone wrong?
That last selection is just wanking. I suppose it doesn't also have a 20 minute drum solo, so that's good, right?
A lot of unremarkable background stuff. Plus all the same.
True musician who can play great lines over any chord changes.
Such a singular voice on the instrument — that round, warm, midrange tone, the horizontal diatonic sequences, the self-harmonizing…
Legend!!
First heard jay late 70s when I bought an album of Rita Coolidge…the track and his playing on “the jealous kind” knocked me out totally !
That Steve Kipner The Ending solo is one of the greatest otros ever. Sublime.
Pros not "Pro's"
Sublime on Peg
Meus ídolos David foster e Jay graydon.
Faltou afther all.
Incredible Imagination