The Builder's Bench

Why is the internet out of tune, and what can you...

Anyone hip to Joshua Breakstone?

2024 D’Angelico Excel EXL-1

Ed Cherry at Smalls Last Night (6/3/24)

John Raymond & Gilad Hekselman - Russia, October...

Only the A side was about a half tone sharp. There are many stories about this, but the real cause was that the 3 track machine used to record the stereo version was miscalibrated and ran too slow. ...

Why is the internet out of tune, and what can you do?

Tonight 5 June 2024 Mike Stern is tonight's guest.

Frank Vignola's Guitar Night, an ongoing concert and livestream series

Kendrick Lamar was apparently deep in a Coltrane phase in 2015 and you can hear it in the phrasing for sure.

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

I think language acquisition, fluency, vocabulary etc are just the beginning of the story. It's true that casual speaking is similar to improvisation in that the words come out and make sense often...

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

I love a maple board on a Strat or Tele, but I honestly don't care. Any nice guitar in my hands is going to make me happy, whether it's solid/semi/hollow ow whatever. Best to have a lot of them, I...

Rosewood vs Maple fretboard head to head - There's a difference

Doesn't work that way. There are companies like CDBaby, Orchard, Distrokid that do digital distribution, meaning you upload your music to them and they upload it to every streaming service on the...

The most popular jazz guitarists according to Spotify statistics

I’m not sure about the provenance of the quote. Possible Archie Shepp misremembered the publication. There were loads of widely circulated jazz publications, for example, that were out of print long...

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

Please do not do that: art historian in the room.

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

Ah right

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

I've told this story before, but it's it's a good story.... I wandered off the road mid bike ride once in Senegal, I heard a really amazing bird call & wanted to know what made it, left my bike at...

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

There's a Jamie Aebersold book/record called "Nothin' But Blues" that is, um, nothing but blues. The book itself has a lot of decent information: chord voicings, bass line construction, typical...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Research is just my word for work put in to find out what you need to answer your questions. You say you're learning the Charlie Parker solo. Why? Bear in mind it's not a question of...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

The DGTs are special guitars. The finish on that one is insane. I have to tell you, I have never been a fan of the splits tho, and I don't find them very useful. I leave mine in humbucker mode all...

PRS DGT with Rosewood neck

And that clarification is very useful. If this is the goal: Then now — as a mea culpa — all this would, in fact, be very good stuff (in addition to Grant Green).

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Published in this Down Beat magazine it was an interview with Archie Shepp and not Don Cherry.

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 1) - Blue Monk in minor

Do these chords exists? Any different name for them?

Itching for a Fender, which one?

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn

Rosewood vs Maple fretboard head to head - There's a difference

Are Modern Amps Repairable?

how to suppress cough on the bandstand ....

Tritone chord root movement

Thoughts on Gabor Szabo?

Where do fusion guys play gigs?

Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?