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"jazz" is in the players fingers talent and attitude..the equipment is secondary
I've been wondering about the Johnny Smith book. Glad to hear it's good.
It is a sweet looking guitar in good shape though. Maybe it was someone from here and they will do a NGD. I am curious what it sounds like. I'm guessing it sounds really good.
Do you also play/sing it together already? Asking because I have a hard time imagining that accompanying a singer in jazz is fundamentally different from accompanying a singer in almost any other...
I don't think any one particular flavor of Telecaster is necessarily superior for jazz given the vast expanse of sonic terrain that is the genre. Take most any Tele, roll off the tone knob and...
Ok then! Playlist link Analysing standards progressions - YouTube Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
"Tim Buckley .... He was produced by Zappa at one point." Yes, his last album, which was arguably his worst, but that was probably not due to Frank's influence. Tim was getting more...
So, white privilege in a nutshell. Any white guy could waltz right into Harlem and go into any club, you could not flip the scenario. Remember Miles Davis was beaten by the police outside the...
The recent biography on guitarist Bill Frisell was a good read. Comprehensive indeed.
Jeez, that's a Reverb sales price! I think that the days of finding deals on anything other than budget or fixer-upper guitars at Good Will online are probably over. You can still get great deals...
No lives matter; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlk7o5T56iw All notes matter; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf0dcMH4N5U
I wonder how segregated the majority of white jazz musicians were off-the-books? (by off-the-book I mean outside of who could be in their bands, what clubs they could play in and other aspects of...
The Johnny Smith bio Moonlight in Vermont is a great book.I wish someone would do a Joe Pass bio. Not a jazz guitarist but the Steve Lukather book The Gospel According to Luke is a great read.
Frank Vignola talks about Birdland’s Guitar Night...
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