IMHO the Wilde/Bill and Becky Lawrence L280 noiseless pick ups are the best drop-in replacements for the sake of fat tone and clarity.
The Dimarzio Area T pickups are a close second. They might get you closer to the classic Ed Bickert pre-PAF tone, if that's what you're looking for, than the Wildes. Having used both extensively, I prefer the Wilde pickups.
Both of those have a bit of humbucker compression; if you really like the true single coil sound, the Wilde Microcoil pickups for the Telecaster are outstanding. While they are a true single coil, they pick up less noise due to the smaller coil not offering as much antenna. There are two versions, one with I presume a ceramic bar magnet and one with alnico polepiece magnets; I prefer the sound of the ceramics (the alnicos are a little too Stratty for my tastes).
In my case, I have found that I like adding a resistor in parallel between the hot output of the bridge pickup and ground to sweeten/round off the highs just a little bit and make it less spiky. There are wiring diagrams on the Wilde website and also Lindy Fralin's website has a very nice page on this. Basically, this makes the bridge pickup think it is seeing a lower resistance pot, say 100K, while the neck pick up thinks it's seeing 250K. Folks who belong to the icepick school of Telecaster bridge pickups would probably hate it.
Thought I would share. Aerodyne Telecaster. Stock pickup replaced with CC in P-90 case and upgraded bridge pickup. Both by Pete Biloft at Vintage Vibe pickups.
In any case the Tristano school did not breed racists.
There is that section in "Conversation's on the Improvisor's Art" where Lee Konitz speaks very critically about the Jewish environment he...
I present to you, one of my very favorite moments in recorded jazz (the link should cue you up to the right spot, but if not, we're looking for about 04:19):
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Play the background gigs to get good enough to play the nightclub gigs.
But really, everyone wants to see and play a good show. The guy who will give you shit for landing on F# over a D minor was...
I decided to order it. You made me even more curious after having heard about the book recently and finding out that is has become unavailable in the Internet Archive.
Interviews with Dexter...
I always think the same thing. It looks like he just moves his hand up and down the neck and notes pop out. Whatever the technique is, is must be very efficient.
Another interesting point. This is about the time that black musicians started making a concerted effort to reject “jazz” as a label for both artistic and social reasons.**
I don’t know enough...
For what it’s worth — this says that Tristano’s dismissal of black musicians must be seen as a reaction to the black musician’s dismissal of white musicians.
No suggestion that the black musicians...
Thank you all for the good advice in this thread.
I just can't behind the "there are no mistakes" stuff. The idea that they have to be bought and paid for by the rest of the line is interesting....
Here is a section of Shim Eunmi's Lennie Tristano: His life in music (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007, pp108-9), in which Tristano's remark is discussed.
Tristano thought that the...
Today at my annual physical, I made the mistake of complaining to one of the PA's that I had a pain in my neck,left shoulder area from using a guitar strap with my heavy guitar.
She immediately...
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