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05-10-2011 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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Originally Posted by Billnc
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The Strat is one of the most modular & adaptable guitars in the history of electric guitars. Strat body means Strat imo. It's rather strange that there is a bias against the Strat in certain jazz circles. Jazz is music, not gear. Play jazz on what ya got.
Cool vid!
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Originally Posted by Stackabones
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I don't know if any of you remember this but Buddy Merrill who used to play with of all bands Lawrence Welk in the early 60's used a Sonic Blue maple neck Strat. If it was good enough for Welk, it's got to be good enough for jazz. That's why I bought myself one that looked just like it. O.K. so Buddy Merrill wasn't a jazz guy but I used to get some nice music out of that guitar. I sold it so I could get a custom shop Seafoam Green Strat and a 54 reissue Strat with their period style pickups. With .013 flats on them, they sounded smooth, warm and clear. It sounded less muddy than my 54 Les Paul Custom reissue. As I had mentioned in another thread, I sold them all so I wouldn't have to leave them behind during hurricane evac. Broke my heart too.
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Originally Posted by Stackabones
PJ
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I'm a lefty and play a Strat (g&L really).....I don't have that many options with guitars, so it has to do. I would never consider myself a "real jazz guitarist" because I have too much respect for the music and what that really means.... but I do make some decent money with the Strat playing jazzed up surf punk in the Hamptons during the summer, so I need to have something that's versatile and this fits the bill for me. Also it's fun to slip in some Monk or some standards drenched in reverb and whammy bar shenanigans!!!
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Nir! He's awesome. Sorry to name drop, but we were both student teachers at NGSW in 2002. His career has taken off a bit more than mine
He was already really frikkin good back then (and playing the same mexican strat.) I didn't really play jazz at the time. We did a session together once, it probably was pretty frustrating for him...I was reading ATTYA out of the real book.
Edit: Also, Jake, cool that you've heard of him, as he's been more of a Boston/NYC guy. Playing with some big names now...
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Originally Posted by P.J.
I've brought a tele to many a jazz gig, and none of the good players I've encountered ever batted an eye.
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i brought a red strat to a gig with Joe Byrd (Charlie's brother) and Joe drawled, "Dayum Jack, you look like bo diddley"...
So obviously, he wasn't feelin' it.
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See, I would have taken that as a compliment.
So when that trumpet player said "Hey look, Steve Cropper!" I shouldn't have been flattered?
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Originally Posted by Billnc
Dave Cliff - Guitar
Dave is a terrific player imo, always understated and tasteful.
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Originally Posted by jzucker
Oh well, I guess that debunks my theory anyway--there are good players with closed minded attitudes toward gear...
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Originally Posted by Bill C
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Originally Posted by Stackabones
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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It ain't the guitar, its the guitarist. Ed Bickert managed to get the fattest tone out of a telecaster. I think anybody who thinks that only big bodied jazz boxes are the only things that can play jazz don't know too much about guitars.
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Lorne Lofsky a great Canadian guitarist based out of Toronto plays a strat-esque Ibanez (I think it's a Roadstar); and boy does it sound great
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These are some great examples you guys listed. The one I really like (although this is definitely leaning more into the fusion side of things) is Oz Noy. And Wayne Krantz is another, (but also outside the genre) not really a name that belongs on your list.
In a straight ahead jazz context, I think the strat sounds (as another forum member worded it in a previous thread) "scooped" compared to the level sound/ attack of a tele. I guess it depends on what you're looking for.
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les paul (named after-well) classic antique...with light strings 10-46...neck pup - rolled back tone...pure mellow..a touch or reverb (2-3) lows have a snap so they are not muddy and soprano notes sing the melody clear as glass...tone it up a bit - add blues driver..and dirty blues-fat and greasy..or X-rated rock..
you can do rock with a jazz box but its rare-ted nugent plays a jazz box and rocks.. larry coryell plays a gibson super 400 and can rock you deaf...
play well
wolf
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I'm a big Lofsky fan, his record Bill, Please....enough said...., and I would kill to sound like him, let alone play like him. He's got those fancy humbucker pickups that fit in a single coil slot on his guitar...I forget what they are called.
I am pretty sure that Adam Rogers, (since Wayne Krantz was mentioned) plays a strat quite often, at least he did when I saw him a few months back.
Crimson/Hutchins Gibson l5
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