Improvisation

Kenny Burrell, Jack McDuff, How High The Moon...

Installing Magic Touch mini-humbuckers on an AF75?

Bill Frisell - 21 Solo Transcriptions

Jim Hall - Glad To Be Unhappy

Wry shoulder

The side view of the bridge shows it angled to the body more than makes me comfortable; the direction of the down force from the strings aligns approximately with the bisection of the strings' break...

Ibanez archtop with 0.010 Thomastik strings and rosewood bridge intonation issues

Yeah it's kind of a mish mash of four and how high the moon w the four section kind of serving as an intro of sorts. Jack Mcduff was known for using arrangements, more so than most organists.

Kenny Burrell, Jack McDuff, How High The Moon intro

Hi Mick I have a box set from Mosaic entitled The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings. It's superb! Derek

Favorite jazz musician pairings?

Red Norvo and Tal Farlow.

Favorite jazz musician pairings?

That's a beauty. Waiting to buy strings in the Totowa, NJ GC last week, I opened up a D'Angelico hard case that was on the counter, something someone apparently just sold to the store. Inside was...

A couple of Guitar Center stories...

Was in the Springfield, NJ store a few Saturday's ago. Somebody who looked familiar recognized the tune I was playing: Miles' "So What". I gave him the thumbs up for naming that tune. Several people,...

A couple of Guitar Center stories...

Here's a better recording of Annotations of the Muses by Johnny Richards, played by the great Johnny Smith. It's come out on a Mosaic Select recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7wMuJurb_Q ...

Concerto for Electric Guitar

Thanks for the suggestions, people. Working on some of them, already. Stumbled on this yesterday. Demonstrates playing "Blue Monk" in 3rds, then, in other vids, using 10ths, all the way up to...

Playing melody in thirds, fourths, etc.

I agree, the point for the student is to thoroughly internalize the lessons in the book and mess around with them six ways from Sunday rather than to get ensnared in marginal details that eat up...

Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar

Johnny Smith performed a real concerto for electric guitar written by Massimo Joseph DeJulio, in one movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru-U7fDkwKU After that fifteen minute piece is...

Concerto for Electric Guitar

Time Out is still one of my favorite albums. Blue Rondo a la Turk is just beautiful. I should learn that one too…

Jim Hall - Glad To Be Unhappy

Great stuff, Decitrig. You have mathematically enhanced this august thread. I don’t care if the info is trivial for some.

Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar

What’s up with this intro? Is there a verse to How High The Moon? Are they quoting another tune, or is this just a bluesy riff kind of like Four? ...

Kenny Burrell, Jack McDuff, How High The Moon intro

Of course. I intended no snarkiness of my own either. I had realized before I even wrote anything that this thread is a ghost town and that I might even get "yelled at" for kicking a dead horse; most...

Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar

Truly. I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the Paul Desmond solo stuff. Brubeck was my in for jazz and the Paul Desmond stuff with Ed Bickert and Jim Hall got me totally...

Jim Hall - Glad To Be Unhappy

I just ordered all the Real Books lol

Playing melody in thirds, fourths, etc.

Death of USA made guitars

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?"

Pickup Suggestions For Blonde 89 Emperor

Anyone had an archtop Plek'd?

Is the Bud 6 Really That Good?

Any other bakers on here?

Gibson Thin line Guitar Models

Faber bridge or Gotoh replacements?