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Lenny Breau - Boy Wonder (1998)

Genre: Jazz/Blues | Label: Guitarchives/Universal | Year: 2009

This album release is most important in our continued series on Lenny Breau because it is the beginning of the legend. This is Lenny's first real professional recording at the age of 15 and it clearly demonstrates his amazing ability and mastery of the Travis/Atkins finger style technique. The occasional foray into single picking a la Jimmy Bryant shows his early interest in Jazz.

Lenny Breau was born August 5, 1941 in Auburn Maine and tragically passed away August 12, 1984 in Los Angeles, California. Breau’s francophone parents relocated to Winnipeg in his teens, where he honed his skills in the family band. A master of technique and encompassing classical, flamenco and country styles as well as jazz, Breau is considered one of the true geniuses of jazz guitar.

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Lenny Breau was enigmatic, unpredictable, and wide ranging in his life and his music. Largely unrecognized except by the select few who are touched by his sphere of brilliance, he improvised and innovated kaleidoscopic fusions of styles and techniques that continue to amaze and confound. With his genius intensely focused on the guitar's labyrinth of strings and frets, the result was the stuff of legends. (Jim Ferguson, Jazz guitar historian, writer, and Grammy nominee)

Lenny Breau (guitar) --- Randy Bachman (executive producer, liner notes) --- Don Bregg (mastering)

Boy Wonder is a compilation album by Canadian guitarist Lenny Breau, recorded in 1956 when Breau was 15 years old!

(1:16) - 01. I'll See You in My Dreams

(1:54) - 02. Cannonball Rag

(0:52) - 03. John Henry

(2:54) - 04. MEDLEY-1: Alice Blue Gown/It's a Sin to Tell a Lie/I've Been Working On The Railroad

(1:13) - 05. Birth Of The Blues

(1:15) - 06. Correna, Correna

(6:41) - 07. MEDLEY-2: By the Light of the Silvery Moon/Back Home Again in Indiana/Barnyard Frolic/Mr. Sandman

(2:10) - 08. Sonny's Special

(2:31) - 09. Side By Side

(1:45) - 10. Rainbow

(2:30) - 11. Blues Doubled

(1:12) - 12. Speedy Blues

(1:05) - 13. Blue Echo

(2:30) - 14. Indian Love Call

(1:28) - 15. Indian Love Call [Alternate Take]

(2:10) - 16. Muskrat Ramble

(2:08) - 17. Knock, Knock

(1:27) - 18. Caravan

(1:09) - 19. Chinatown, My Chinatown

(0:43) - 20. Dance Of The Golden Rod

(4:09) - 21. Waltz You Saved For Me

(3:31) - 22. Out Of Nowhere

(2:21) - 23. They Say It's Wonderful

(2:24) - 24. Blue Heartaches

(7:43) - 25. Blues In Extension

(3:15) - 26. Speedy Jazz

(2:23) - 27. September Song

(5:12) - 28. Betty Cody-Breau Interview

An outstanding jazz improviser who performed on both acoustic and electric guitars, Lenny Breau's left hand drew on classical, flamenco, and country (Travis/Atkins) finger-picking techniques. He was among the first guitarists to digest the impressionistic, post-bop chord voicings of pianist Bill Evans. Breau developed the ability to simultaneously comp chords and improvise single-string melodies, creating the illusion of two guitarists playing together. His facility with artificial harmonics remains the envy of many guitarists. Late in his career, Breau began using a seven-string guitar that extended the instrument's range in the upper register. Breau's early RCA recordings are eclectic and technically dazzling. His later work is less flashy, but communicates on a deeper level.

Born to Canadian country music singers, Lenny Breau started out playing country in a sophisticated manner. Chet Atkins himself helped Breau get an RCA recording contract in 1968. However, Breau's jazz-oriented style and remarkable technique quickly caused him to be uncategorizable. Problems with drugs made his career erratic and he is now considered an underground guitar legend. A new label (Guitararchives) was formed in 1995 specifically to release private tapes of his performances.

(Richard Lieberson & Scott Yanow, AMG 2008)

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