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Of course, it’s ESC not a credible vehicle for genre music. Part of the fun with ESC is when a WTF!?? entrant like Ireland ‘24 pops up and musicians...

I owned one just like it for a few months and can verify : it's very comfortable/playable, toneful, has great build-quality, priced very...

Your shoulder might not like it but that's besides the point here - I KNOW a comfortable strap for my heavier guitars and wouldn't use my banjo...

I would not decide on any amp of this size and type based on some youtube clip - we're a special breed and our idea of a suitable clean tone is quite...

Much too thin for my taste. Will hurt the muscle on top of your shoulder. Just my 2 cents no one asked for.

Nice to conclude you are better and improving Rob!

When the guitar is not subjected to smoke etc. it normally does not need a "treatment" , an occasional wipe-down with normal cleaner will be just...

Hahaha I had never thought that I would take part in derailing a Barry Harris thread. Now of course I had to check it out and of course there is...

I use both and they are both great. FR more ‘hi fi’ and has a more “acoustic” quality obviously. Depends on your tonal preferences. Sent from...

I quite liked Germany’s entry in 23 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Genius JT sounds better but has less features

My modern Indonesian-made 2420 has a nice chunky neck. Just saying in case you want to get back to Gretsch

Got myself a 2420 for some project. I repaced the factory humbuckers with Gretsch Filtertrons (did some cosmetic changes as well). Put some...

man, that is some weird analysis. let's see: Grant actually plays the piece in Cm. but he seems to have forgotten how the head goes. so he plays...

Again a realy nice recording Mark. The clearence of that guitar is astonishing! I never liked the dark tones of the earlier decades. Your sound is...

I've had four class D power amps and yes, they sound similar, very transparent, very little colouration of sound, but some class D power amps are...

I love both players, but ticked GG on this tune because he made it his own, less a kind of a cover, more like an impression. To me that’s part of...

Yes I know what you are talking about because it has been an extremely common talking point for the past two years amongst the portion of online left...

Echols is doing the guest master class in OS Pro this Friday. :encouragement:

Squeese Aftermarket ZigZag Gibson es175D. see. pictures.

Thank you for the download. That is my kinda jam.

Bruford wore a NO t-shirt. https://youtu.be/c0feGCVaS40?si=qMKZYmQaBHjYhiEt

Very nice, I was singing the melody line of Stella along with you!

Don't be mad at Jazz Strats :pride: or thumb behind the neck or standing when playing or fretting four fingers or economy picking or no rest...

While I love Wes' tone the solo was too short. It didn't feel like a complete thought. I also thought Grant was playing some stuff pretty close to...

Very true! If you’re going to buy a full set of chisels Narex seems like a good choice for a reasonable price. I almost went for a set of them. But...

First of all, Miles wrote and played it in D minor, but GG plays it in F major. Second, the two chords after each phrase in the A section of the...

Man I’m trying to hard. The first 16 bars of GG is all what I’d call D pentatonic stuff. He’s got the major 6 too.

H525's are my all time favorite Heritage model! Good luck with your sale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrIzeotFOfg

For comparison’s sake: https://youtu.be/J2Xf6_GWaJM?si=kqdKjVyoPXRRmj4r

This is going to sound strange, but to me, some of what Wes plays here reminds me of Grant’s usual bag. Maybe it’s the tone? Note: George Benson...

Now is the winter of our, uh, discordant Made, um, sonorous summer by this sun of … Bjork? No, that’s no good. Something’ll come to me.

If one day I picked up Leo's invention And played phat jazz chords with lots of tensions It ain't nobody's business Nobody's business but mine

I don’t know … it seems very odd to me to get worked up about other people’s choices in instruments and making absolute statements about what music a...

Hi Albert, I believe it's going to be around 17-1/2 - that's what Bryant mentioned a few weeks ago. He's incorporating some aspects of an...

Lovely Instrument and great size as well!

Another vote for the Quilter TB202 around 5 lbs,small footprint,huge headroom, and wonderful Clean Tone!

Ha! I just came back to say this. I love my Zephyr Regent and, while I recommended an Eastman earlier, I was playing both unplugged this evening and...

It can be done, despite my skepticism, as DB’s clip shows. I will add that I have rarely heard a Strat played clean that didn’t have that “boing”...

This is what I was talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdUtUefjCA I hate Nazism. In 1999, I was surrounded by Bavarian riot...

Cannot tell anything about the 23 Eurovision. Obviously I wasn't bored that night. In early 22 I had not met my sweetheart yet LOL.

I agree. It is fun to hear what musicians do with the tunes off “Kind of Blue”. They are all over the musical map.

I thought it was short also. What WM and the band do is outstanding, but I would have liked them to stretch it out more.

I have understood it as any broken triad inversion with the highest resp. lowest note repeated depending on the direction, so for Am like in your...

I think one of my favorite things about Kind of Blue—or that band, rather—is how there are three totally different approaches to modal playing in the...

Here's a really nice cycle of a 5-note chord in an 8-note scale (Diatonic + dim 5th). This one's not too bad to arpeggiate. I omitted the...

I love Wes's phrasing and clarity. Miles-like space. I would've liked to hear him take another round and develop it further with the octaves and...

You treat that statement like it's an objective fact rather than an opinion.

Nice rig Danny. That Double Shot is an interesting concept. I think it's light enough to be micro.

Hi ! I'm back ! https://youtu.be/L717HzMs5zE https://youtu.be/_wO5OwkYLDs

Not sure if this would qualify for "micro", but this is what I've been playing with my big band for the past three years: Acoustic Image SL-R...

The Epiphone Zephyr Regent, like a 175 with a single pickup, is also a really good guitar. Made by Peerless in Korea, they were one of the best 175...

Maybe try breaking the slur up. Parker often accented weak to strong beats and tended to highlight the peaks of phrases. If you choose to slur...

Im probably the biggest GG fan on here, but Wes. Grant changes the tune a little too much for me...it's almost a contrafact.

And this!

Slight clarification - an “arpeggio” is a four note figure, a triad with an octave doubling of the root … so A C E A’ for example. Sent from my...

the backing is a looper through my Pathfinder too. https://youtu.be/WI-q1p0nCpE?si=_vlmDXyLZb3B86Jq

Not to fork the thread too much, but the Rickenbacker clip above (looks like a 360) immediately made me think of the second track on the debut Yes...

I have a 2009 American Standard Stratocaster, purchased new. With the bridge floating the guitar wouldn't stay anywhere in the vicinity of...

That's a great list. Very clear. The thing that was less familiar to me was the family of four dominant chords e.g. C7 Eb7 Gb7 A7. I knew about...

Built for jazz…

Im kind of with you. I hear maybe more of a Cannonball Modal thing … like more chromaticism and implied changes and stuff but the vibe is still So...

I hear it now. Duh. Yeah the Wes backing is better. You’re right on that.

I had the THR10 before, and liked it. I could go that direction, but was just wondering if I’d missed something new on the market. The Vox looks...

I hear/read many positive things about the Yamaha THR10 model ... Yamaha THR10II – Thomann United Kingdom

A question, do the bass sounds boomy on this type of amp? I had a fender rumble and it was impossible to set the bass eq to make it sound correct....

I'd have made the same suggestion (and have been putting off getting me the version for bass as it'll probably have a bit wider frequency range).

I put some Ron Ellis pickups that I got a great deal on but it came with some fender “fat 60’s” alnico ii pickups that I might even prefer for jazz...

Wes! Wes! Wes!

Steve - Will it have a 17” lower bout? AKA

It's friggin good. You can do no harm by studying it if you choose to. Some of the main topics in single note (as taught by Chris Parks): -...

I love TB202. No news there. As an ex-Boogieman it seems extremely small and light to me, but I'm not going to the gig on a bike. It has built in...

Vox Pathfinder will be fine. They’re like $80 and have a line out.

I'd suggest an audio interface and a computer-based amp sim, for example a FocusRite Scarlett 2i2 interface and the Scuffham S-Gear amp sim (those...

I hear them both holding on one key and going up a half step. Not sure what you’re talking about.

Jeff (thread starter) Perhaps Winter of vocals.

Check out the Henriksen Bud 6. Really nice traditional jazz tone and lots of connection options: The Bud SIX - Henriksen Amplifiers Doug

Thanks! The bone saddle is obviously rounded and a bit protuberant, which makes sense. The illustration from the instructions makes it look as...

I did a bit of looking into this about a year ago. Narex kept coming in high on wood workers lists while still being reasonably priced. ...

Good question! The 202 is a very desirable amp and for most, small. For me, and countless freelancers in NY and other congested areas, a borderline...

But Green uses the “wrong” chords. Wes stays in the Miles modal mood, while Green just seems to standardize the tune.

It is not about tools or money. Jazz is music, not work. What harm would it do to play jazz on a guitar that is not associated with jazz? What's...

Yep, John A. got down-to-earth NYC vocal chops, going for that high note. Legit. I would sound like sh*t, so never do it.

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Wes is to the point. Green goes on and on.

Just checked Fibonacci guitars. They have jumped from £3500 as advertised in the Jazz wise article to a whopping £8000 for just a standard model. Im...

I think so! I have an OD202, which is a similar amp in the same case with a bit more conrol versatility but a bit less flexibility in clean voicing....

Stlll here

Still here

Thanks, yes, bar six rhythm is difficult, I'm hammering on the notes D-Eb-F and then pulling off the notes F-Eb-D.

That's a good point. Can you play jazz on a strat? Can you cut a steak with a butter knife? Yes, you can! But it doesn't mean you should. If...

Thanks for your kind words David. I’ve been singing blues for a long time. At first it was because no one else would, but I got to be OK at it and I...

How dare they have their country invaded! lol. Ukraine does have a … complex and chequered political history. However, until the Russians...

the world of BH style turnarounds: Convert everything to 6th dim chords: IV6-iim6-IM6 (regular V7 dom) IV6-b6m6-IM6 (altered dom) Ivm6-M7m6-IM6...

Is Quilter Tone Block 202 too big and heavy (1,5 kg) in this game? It has the reverb AND the sound. (In fact many sounds.)

First of all : welcome to the forum ! As you are in France, you may consider this Eastman AR503CE: Guitare eastman jazz d’occasion - Zikinf <...

I have a guitar that sounds great with 10s, but it sounds like crap with 11s. Never experienced anything quite like that, but it was like that...

This video demonstrates three rules for single notes. The rules cover how to add half steps to a scalar line. As Peter pointed out before, but on...

Go home, Tommy, LOL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJDxnWFqpiA

But it's not a competitor for the tiny amp heads Gitterbug is discussing. That's a 19" rack mount power amplifier. You need a preamp to drive it...

I heard exactly the opposite. The Wes track drops the motif and chord stabs immediately after the head. I think the Wes version is helped by how...