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Originally Posted by pants
The foundation of jazz was blues, and early blues instrumental technique as a historical genre was full of slide guitar. Both country music and rock were founded in the blues and both well developed the use of the slide ... but not jazz.
I don't have an explanation for the absence of slide guitar playing in jazz... just an honest sense of thankful relief that it never caught on.
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06-11-2018 02:43 AM
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Ry Cooder's 'Jazz' has him playing some slide on tunes by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton etc. Generally I guess slide is a bit unwieldy for jazz though.
The nearest I've heard is Buddy Emmons playing jazz on pedal steel guitar (he did an album with Lenny Breau).
Having said that, I think Derek Trucks plays some Coltrane tunes on slide.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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