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When will "Jazz Music : The up-to-date Gospel Truth according to Ragman" finally be published?
Interesting. (I meant pure/plain gut of course, and based on looks alone. The 2 lower strings could be wound gut...)
Ask Charles McPherson about how Barry Harris always stressed the importance of having a brilliant general education.
He says to treat the A section like 1-4-1-5. Can anyone tell me what measures he is treating as which?
My wife is learning the Debussy piano piece :"Arabesque #1", which has several phrases of triplets against (straight) eight notes: (It ends on a B in the next measure.) I'm stealing that!...
Got a chance recently to demo those 2 amazing amps on the fat clean sound (to have a rather fair comparison): imho, I liked Bloomfield Drive on a fat clean side that the classic reverb. Plus...
A lot of wisdom exists in this thread. Here are some conclusions I have come to: A) We do chase gear a bit too much in the days of the Internet where buying and selling is much easier and...
I always liked The Pogues more than The Dubliners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAEFKjqPtlU Sorry, couldn't resist.
BM, we miss you brother! We all hope you’re feeling better soon!
Having been playing for 68 years, I (along with everyone else) have come full circle on this. After decades of “progress”, the gold standard is still the sounds we loved when we were skinny and the...
That combo uses that Celestion speaker I was asking about .. TF0818. So I assume you like that speaker?
Is there some reason why you can't just play the danged arrangement? Even when the OP has asked us to focus on learning the arrangement as it is written as a starting point, you just thunder on with...
I have a Quilter micropro 200 8-in, it's light, sounds good, and is loud. https://youtu.be/0Qn-x2rQrto?si=BPYcPjJwRzKq0d8b
Debussy it? Steal that classical lick!
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