The Genius of Lenny Breau | movie | 1999 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The Genius of Lenny Breau is Hughes' film biography of her father, the Canadian jazz guitar genius who died under myster | dG1fd3lFZTFuZHVxZjQ

Transcript

00:00When guitar players talk, we talk about the great ones.

00:11We always start at the top of the scale, basically.

00:15He had a fantastic humor, personality, he could sing, he was great looking,

00:18plus he was an incredible guitar player.

00:21I think, boy, man, this guy should have been an absolutely major star

00:24because he had everything going for him.

00:26He was successful in the ways that mattered to him or that mattered to real musicians.

00:32He came up with a way of addressing the instrument technically

00:37that actually nobody had done before, certainly.

00:40I knew eventually someone would come along that had modern ideas and everything,

00:45some young kid like Lenny who would really amaze the music world.

00:50I think Lenny has done it.

00:51He was like my son.

00:53I never wrote it.

00:56I'd be watching his fingers and making little notes and trying to,

01:01I had a little Silvertone guitar, trying to put my fingers where he put his fingers on the neck.

01:05And I learned just by watching him.

01:10He's part of that combustion that keeps the whole thing going.

01:16And Emily has raised the lighthouse so that anyone who's interested can find out who her father really was

01:27and where her father really is located.

01:33Long story, man.

01:34It's a long story.

01:35I could talk to you about it for five hours.

01:38It's just one of those things.

01:41A real genius.

01:42That's all.

01:55A real low five.

01:56Well, that's a woman.

01:57You know, why, how, how, how.

01:59How, how, how, how.

01:59How, how.

02:00How, how.

02:01How.

02:03How, how.