From The Bandstand

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 4) - C Jam Blues

Amazing Practice Tool! Track Splitter!

Let's hear it for Al Schackman

Why you shouldn't use AI to 'compose' music

Campellone PSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M510uxmCky4

Learning to play with a singer

I never really paid attention to this in jazz singers in particular but in general good singers will sing just (there's a physical, feeling-good aspect to that, something I've discovered myself after...

Learning to play with a singer

I am actually interested also in the pre Eddie Lang era. Yes, guitar was a parlour instrument, but what genres were played? Did guitarists play unaccompanied or in a band?

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

She’s been the hot new thing for a bit. Really amazing singer and Pasquale is on both her albums. Probably takes a Pasquale Grasso to comp for her in an interesting way because she’s got Sarah...

Learning to play with a singer

No, you can’t. PMB’s advice to avoid voicings in which the highest note is also being sung by the vocalist is generally sound counsel. Playing the same note that’s being sung can divert from the...

Learning to play with a singer

Friends, our poll closes in one hour. The major networks are calling it for scrapple. Well stick with that one, and will poll a couple of off-the-beaten-track tunes for our next tune.

Bebop tunes, what’s tune no. 2

The boundaries between those 2 types can be pretty vague if you accept that archtops can also "arched by glueing on preformed braces" (under constraint, whatever). That would in fact make just about...

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

No but thanks for the offer, very much appreciated

Would you spend $5k for a Gibson Farlow if serial number was partially scratched out?

Video > https://youtu.be/-mJ_51z6Cxw?t=137 Apologies for the necro posting and the off topic, but does anybody know if that banjo was a tenor or a plectrum? Because it sounds like a plectrum but...

The roots of chord melody guitar. (Who were the pioneers?)

Youre absurd.

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

Is that true? Chess is in fact a purely deterministic game from what I understood, one where every move leaves the opponent with a limited number of choices and where it's thus possible to predict...

Why you shouldn't use AI to 'compose' music

Learning to play with a singer

You only have their word that they will respect your demand. We have a pretty good idea how well corporations honor commitments like that. As for the OP, if I have AI write a composition, how can...

Why you shouldn't use AI to 'compose' music

I am in touch with Big Mike on daily basis. Given situation this probably best way to unfold these things. We take nothing with us when we leave this world except our past actions. Good, bad, or...

Campellone PSA

Thanks. I got a lot from stripping things down to their bare bones and then adding complexity in. Barry Harris taught this but actually I learned it by playing early jazz and swing music where you...

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

Telecaster - Single Coil or Humbucker?

Not really sounding very 'jazzy'. Is it in the playing technique?

Eliminating the Metronome for technical studies?

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 3) - Straight No Chaser

Rich Severson’s top 5 guitars

Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7

In-ear Monitors for a Big Band

How bad is this?