The Songs

Sonny S. -- Les Paul Player

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (Christian Scott)

RIP Nick Gravenites

KA PAF info please

Vintage fuzz on "space" transistors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPmqSRFQ_kA

Sonny S. -- Les Paul Player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNAXuhPqHC0

Sonny S. -- Les Paul Player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDLGFMGsTbw

Sonny S. -- Les Paul Player

Stay cool in a Porkpie hat. (A cliche, I know, but an honest cliche.) Tip: Finish your set with Mingus' "Good Bye Porkpie Hat" and then through your hat like a Frisbee to your fans in the audience.

Attire

Even though Christian's post was very much in jest I find your serious reply very interesting. It clearly becomes an almost impossible task to find and choose your perfect L5 (or similar). There is...

What beats an L5?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4AwHYeEEAA

Sonny S. -- Les Paul Player

What makes “classic jazz vocabulary” anyway? Much or most of the time it’s a strong rhythmic phrase hooked up to simple musical devices - chord tones, scales, neighbour tones etc. What I have...

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

^ There is a video somewhere on Youtube (that I cannot find ATM, FCK AI search engine) from a Barry Harris masterclass (London IIRC) where Barry refers to blues clichés as "swear phrases".

BH

Maybe I should apply at a university to teach jazz history hahahaha. I met this unbelievably good young hard bop and soul jazz pianist who admitted that he doesn't know much music beyond jazz,...

BH

My own RE200 gets regular use - not as much as my BUD6 but when more volume and spread is called for the Evans delivers. Like with many other amps it sounds best at a level just a bit above bedroom...

Evans RE 300 excellent condition

I've had my 1981 GB10 since 1986, it's a great guitar. I notice that with demos and such, people tend to go right to the George Benson type tone. It's a versatile guitar with many other tones in it...

Out with the old, in with the new - GB10, Romeo and, um, well, G6609TG

PAF-OT for "thin," methinks. Note the vertical dimension being much thinner than a standard KA PAF-O pickup, which is itself already thinner than a Gibson PAF. If you have a guitar with low...

KA PAF info please

I love that attitude: "I think the band is really a family. You know, whenever we depart each other, we always tell each other that we love each other, we miss each other. If we don't play for a...

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (Christian Scott)

this is hand written so I’d assume it’s made in NYC, but conflicts with what the other poster said above. I’m not an expert. Regardless, great playing and sounding guitar

Sadowsky SS-15 - Sienna Burst

user error indeed :) it is 2010

Sadowsky SS-15 - Sienna Burst

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

What beats an L5?

Analysing jazz vocabulary

Came up with an epic tip for improv

The New Campellone fall batch

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

Developing your own style/sound

Emily Remler

Stage setups for larger venues

Thumb pain

Shape of jazz to come/that's here

Rediscovering my lost passion for guitar

Like-New Gibson ES-335s