Sure, I was okay playing Merle Haggard’s “Momma Tried”… I know the intro to that… “Yeah that’s what you play!” But, I had a a Hagstrom Swede guitar I brought to Nashville. Yeah, so I did it anyway, because I knew the other stuff. That was the whole way I perceived Nashville (laughs).ĭon’t play the jazz stuff – your phone won’t ring…Don Kelly (Nashville bandleader famous for recruiting the hottest new young Tele’ players) told me that…īob: I saw that interview where you recounted that. Guys like Hank Garland, they did their sessions all day, but then would sneak out and play “jazz” down in Printers Alley. That’s what they all play in the night when they go out. When I came in Nashville, I thought of Buddy Emmons. So it was a good eclectic collection.īob: You seem to dive deep in whatever style you decide to jump into… Not only did I have country music but I also had Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong (oh man!) in the house too. Mom sang Connie Smith and Loretta Lynn songs. My mom and dad had a country band and they played stuff like Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, and Loretta Lynn. We had a lot of different kind of music in the house so I always refer to country music. Every morning there was a Buddy Rich solo downstairs… Yeah, my brother loved Buddy Rich… I did too! Things kind of parlayed from there, it’s kind of how I got in the jazz.Īlso, my brother (Nashville drummer Randy Mason) always played Buddy Rich solos in the basement. after Buddy Emmons, I got a Pat Martino album – then became a fan of Pat. So then I wondered, “what does Buddy Emmons listen to?” I know he said something about Pat Martino at some point so then…. Real active, energetic and very interesting notes. When I first heard Buddy Emmons, WOW! It was just such finesse and flash. But I listened to Buddy Emmons just as much in those early years because although my dad didn’t play steel, he was a steel guitar fan. I listened to Jerry Reed and always talk about Jerry Reed. They were always playing a lot of jazzy stuff.īuddy Emmons, I need to give him a more credit than I do, I think because I’m always talking about well-known guitar players. I was always a fan of Buddy Emmons and Roy Nichols. And of course, there was Texas swing – which is jazz from Texas, you know big band music with strings. There was Merle Haggard and my dad loved Bob Wills. I was a fan of Nashville musicians, of course my parents played country music. Well, I yeah… I had some of that in my arsenal and I picked up a lot (laughs) along the way. So Brent Mason on the cover of Jazz Guitar Today? Absolutely!īob: I would like to hear about when you first came to Nashville from Ohio. How much of your ‘playing’ arsenal was already developed and how much did you pick up along the way? We love straight ahead jazz players no doubt, but we also celebrate the players that use the language of jazz in other genres. His guitar vocabulary is stupefying and he is exactly the kind of player we at Jazz Guitar Today want to highlight. I had heard Brent was a big fan of Pat Martino and George Benson and in fact, he is. I was warming up backstage and I noticed Brent was warming up across the room – playing a ton of red-hot bebop lines. I was fortunate to be performing at the show, as well. I met Brent at the Little Walter Tube Amp show at the City Winery in Nashville last year. His licks, solos, and kickoff intros have been on thousands of country records and hits. Brent is known for his country licks and chicken pickin’. His client list is the “Who’s Who” of country stars and producers.
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Bob Bakert, Editor of Jazz Guitar Today: Brent Mason has played guitar on literally thousands of records, lots of movie soundtracks, many television shows and commercials.
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