New mandolin hero

[Cochiti Don]

This was posted on the Facebook mandolin group. Holy crap you have to listen to all of his.

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[Cochiti Don]

Another one even better.

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[Ranald]

Don,
Can you please give us the name of the musician(s) and the tunes? I'm not getting the video links.
Ranald

[Marty Jacobson]

New mandocello hero?
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Keizo Ishibashi. He appears to be the Jake Shimabukuro of the mandolin. Pretty ridiculous chops on display there.

[Cochiti Don]

Ranald,"..............Keizo Ishibashi. play ALL of his videos. Astounding!

[Ranald]

Thanks, Don. Keizo Ishibashi is certainly impressive. I especially liked his take on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." I don't know if that's been posted above or not. If not:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU6wOR5zUOQ

By the way, a friend and colleague, who used to play banjo with Bill Monroe was invited to speak at a Japanese bluegrass conference in the 1990's. He said that the musicians were very good, and showed us videos to prove his point. The bands all came complete with cowboy hats. I didn't play mandolin at the time, so didn't notice whether the straps were over the right shoulder. No doubt, some of these bands are on YouTube.
Ranald

[Ranger Bob]

My left hand ached just watching these.

[kurth83]

Click the above utube link, and when it finishes it just keeps playing more of him...

Here was one I found interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SSbFLc-dfE

Played on a 12 string mando (4 courses of 3 strings each).