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No Guitar Is Safe

14 - Bruce Forman

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

Music

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2015

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Monster bebop guitarist Bruce Forman leads the renowned Western swing combo Cowbop, has a one-man/one-guitar show called 'The Red Guitar,' and is featured heavily in the soundtrack to Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning film, 'Million Dollar Baby.' Also an esteemed jazz educator, Forman jams with host Jude Gold and reminds musicians to originate, not imitate, and to stand up and be "people, not sheeple."

Transcript

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0:00.0

No, guitar is Safe.

0:39.6

I'm Jude Gold, and you're listening right there to Bruce Foreman, my guest today. What a monster jazz player he is. If you know

0:48.4

anything about the current roster of jazz guitar players over the past couple three

0:52.8

decades, then you certainly know about Bruce

0:54.8

Foreman because he's just diabolical. It just blows my mind that, you know, you can see him at a

0:59.3

restaurant in L.A. or Burbank on a Tuesday night or something. I recommend you sign up for his email,

1:04.4

so you can know when he's playing. He has various situations he does. Bruce Foreman, you know,

1:09.8

trio, whatever, or he does cowbop,

1:12.9

which is a band with his wife, Pamela, Pammy, Pinto Pammy, as they call her. They're already

1:20.3

inducted into Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame. They're bringing Western Swing, which is that

1:26.0

really exciting, upbeat version of Bebop kind of jazz. They're bringing Western Swing, which is that really exciting, upbeat version of bebop kind of jazz.

1:30.3

We're bringing that into the New Millennian, which is really cool.

1:33.3

And Bruce does so many other things.

1:36.3

I first discovered him when I was about 18 or 19, and I heard him on the radio on K Jazz in the Bay Area when I still live there.

1:43.3

I had to go out and I bought that record right away. on K-Jazz in the Bay Area when I still live there.

1:48.5

I had to go out and I bought that record right away.

1:49.7

He sounded so great.

1:51.9

He's done so much stuff, too.

1:58.8

He's going to show you what he did on Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning movie Million Dollar Baby.

2:01.4

His guitar is all over that soundtrack.

2:04.2

I think he's done a couple other movies with Clint Eastwood, too.

2:12.4

Pretty neat that they won for Best Picture, or I guess Clint Eastwood did, but that sort of success really, it trickles downward, which is great.

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