Robin D. G. Kelly's Thelonious Monk: The Life & Times of an American Original---to me one of the truly stellar jazz biogs.
Anything by David Hajdu; especially Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life and his biog on Nat Cole. (I've also corresponded w/him and he seems truly nice).
Frank Buchman-Moller's You Just Fight for Your Life---the Story of Lester Young. (All the Pres biogs are worth reading).
Art Pepper's autobiog (written with Laurie Pepper); and Miles (written with Quincy Troupe) are self-gratifying and hampered by loads of BS, but I've read them both numerous times. Pepper is a spellbinding raconteur, and his insight into other musicians' work is interesting to read (if his comments about his own 'genius' are slightly delusional). Miles talking about music has been great food for thought.
The Benson book was mentioned. One thing that cracked me up: some poetic justice. I knew Eddie Diehl for years, and he had a bug up his ass about Kenny Burrell. It had to do with a record date where he was sent home and replaced by Kenny b/c the company wanted a 'name'. He neither ever forgot nor stopped bad-mouthing Kenny's playing til it came out of your ears. I guess it's SOMEWHAT understandable. Eddie WAS one of the best, and a truly good-hearted guy underneath it all. We're all sensitive, and rejection---perceived or real---can really hurt.
Anyway, in George's book when he got the call to go with McDuff he was to replace Eddie. His comments---and they were respectful---were (paraphrasing): '(Eddie) was a formidable musician----not on the level of Kenny Burrell...., but he definitely could play'. Eddie was still alive when that came out. I hope he read it---it MAY have shut his mouth. I doubt it though---shutting Eddie's mouth about ANYTHING, especially guitar players he was jealous of (their stature in the biz, not their playing), was a tall order. But I had quite a chuckle over that one...
Yes, I used to hear him around DC in various jazz clubs. While he was well known for the country/chickin' pickin' thing, he seemed to prefer playing jazz standards. There used to be a jazz brunch...
It does indeed sound like Yiorgis' low string is a B.
So with half-Nashville style tuning, from low to high:
B: heavy E string tuned down to B?
E: regular E string
A: regular A string
D:...
Wow! After hearing some of the great stuff he did with Buddy Emmons on the "Redneck Jazz" videos on You Tube, I started reading his biography, "Unfinished Business", and it talks about how he used to...
I recently picked up a D’Angelico EX-DC that was made in Korea in 2018. I am extremely happy with this guitar. Top quality all the way around…and tone for days…many tones!
Ok I was looking back at it and found a juicy one in measures 7-8 of chorus 4 haha
So you can diatonically sub the VI minor over I major (cf all the Benson method controversy haha). Adam does one...
Some of the examples - #2, the descending run at the end of #3 and #4 im as sure about as I am anything in this crazy world.
But I’ll be interested if you come up with an alternative.
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That's max bright for the guitar lol. I set up the controls to have some upper range and still be able to chirp a tad but while being smoky. If you want it warmer, simply roll off the tone a tad or...
What the heck, I'll reanimate this thread. About 1 month ago I decided to look into getting a baritone guitar. I discovered the D'Angelico Deluxe SS maple, which has 2 Seymour Duncan P90's, as...
New Campellone Standard on Reverb
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