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George Benson's Autobiography was good. It's not jazz but Scotty and Elvis was good and it's not about guitar but Time is Tight by Booker T Jones was also very good.
How certain are we that they always had steel strings, in fact? So-called classical banjos were gut-strung so the transition must have taken place at some point. As loud as you need nowadays,...
It's the sound from The Allman Brothers Stormy Monday and Miles Davis Freddie Freeloader. I suspect they lifted it from Freedie Freeloader.
I would second every word of this. I want to reply in some detail but there's a lot here.
Whoa nelly! Sold for $2,852.96. I was thinking $1900.
^ Thank you - I've edited the above lists to reflect this!
I'm still working on some of the very first jazz songs I started with in 1974. There are others of course! AFAIK some of the deepest classical players ever never let go of Bach, Dowland and...
A quality edit, Ragman
Peng is not giving us his version. I don't think he's got one. So he's asking us what to play over a non-existent chord progression... Don't forget the standard version is Bb Bb7 | EbM7 Ebm6 but...
I am currently reading World on a String by John Pizzarelli, it is a great book. What other books are out there on Jazz guitarist that you would recommend?
Once more for the people in the back: The variation doesn’t really matter. and … the Barry version: Bb - F7 - Bb - F7 Bb7 - Eb7 - Bb - F7
A few years back I tried two, one was an older one with a Kent Armstrong and the other was newer and had a SD SL. The SD was a little brighter sounding, and I thought the KA actually sounded a...
Favorite Jazz guitarist book
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