Guitar, Amps & Gizmos

What makes a bandleader?

Tone Shaping Mic'd Amp

Allen LF or 1x8” Chichuahua or Kendrick Solo7

Turn around with double stops

Mosaic Select's great remastering of Johnny Smith...

I worked for a go-getter band leader thru the 80s who had a knack for booking gigs, but who moved on to work in the USAF band in the 90s. Still sounds like good advice, thanks, but oddly reminds me...

What not to do on a gig

Jazz is not dessert. Jazz is heavy half-cooked beef.

Playing melody in thirds, fourths, etc.

For solo guitar, and given you have a tweeter on the Hendrickson, I'd experiment with placing your mic further away from the speaker so it picks up more of the tweeter. You can also play with...

Tone Shaping Mic'd Amp

Just sold... Sorry for not updating sooner!

Eastman Jazz Elite 16"

Great chart!

Big band music alive and well in Japan

What makes a bandleader?

What not to do on a gig

Let's hear your tales, good and bad, from the bandstand about bandleaders. To do and to don't.

What makes a bandleader?

Edit: You know, I have a Creation Audio Labs MK 4.23 Clean Boost here somewhere. I think I may give that a try and hear what happens.

Tone Shaping Mic'd Amp

Make Dessert Great Again

Playing melody in thirds, fourths, etc.

Comins calls it "violin burst". If you buy it you can call it whatever you want.

Comins GCS-16-1

You’re a sort of an ice cream racist I take it. I’ll just find my own way outta here. No worries.

Playing melody in thirds, fourths, etc.

T-Bone Walker squeezed some sweet blue notes out of his archtop guitar. https://youtu.be/pFqK6PBq-hA?si=0JSnJbOY7WdKq4fu Fenton Robinson had his own sound with an archtop....

Younger guitarists are discovering the joys of having a jazz box. Good!

Ok, I already broke my weekly promise… Summertime: https://youtu.be/n8p6GyuU49M?si=jJc_j7ltAZiI-rA_

Play Alongs

I’m sure some nutter has written that in a big band part somewhere. The Kenton chart for Everytime We Say Goodbye we play at my local BB blow ends on a ‘maj11’ which is of course, in fact a...

Playing melody in thirds, fourths, etc.

Correct, I would never hire someone if they go legalese on a $150 jazz gig. That kind of thinking will land you on the debate team, not a jazz gig.

What not to do on a gig

Playing melody in thirds, fourths, etc.

Death of USA made guitars

I just ordered all the Real Books lol

Grant Green, What is This Thing

A couple of Guitar Center stories...

FYI: Gibson L-4 HSL4 Light Cherry Burst, 2022

"Why Do The World's Best Guitarists Play On the Round Corner?"

What not to do on a gig

Any other bakers on here?

Anyone had an archtop Plek'd?

Pickup Suggestions For Blonde 89 Emperor

Younger guitarists are discovering the joys of having a jazz box. Good!

Gibson Thin line Guitar Models