Posted by jaso 270 days ago in Player News
Kansas jazz is alive and well! Master guitarist Wayne Goins’ new release reveals a musician of deep feeling, unassailable generosity, and exquisite taste. Chronicles of Carmela is, in fact, the most b...
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Posted by jaso 301 days ago in Player News
Co-founders of the Dixie Dregs, Andy West and Steve Morse met during tenth grade at the militaristic Richmond Academy in Augusta, Georgia. By then, West, born in 1954 in Newport, Rhode Island, was al....
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Posted by jaso 307 days ago in Player News
If there had been “best band in the land” contest in the late 1970s, the Dixie Dregs would have gotten my vote. With spectacular musicianship, the quintet wove hard rock, chicken-scratch country, free...
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Posted by jaso 348 days ago in Player News
One of the first electric guitarists on record, Floyd Smith played an important role in jazz from the 1930s through the 1950s. Born in 1917 and raised in St. Louis, he first went on the road in 1934 w...
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Posted by jaso 353 days ago in Player News
Floyd Smith
While honored today as the first influential electric guitarist in jazz, Charlie Christian was not the first to feature the instrument on a record. In our interview, producer John Hammond ...
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Posted by jaso 355 days ago in Player News
Charlie Christian's ES-250. Click twice to supersize photo.
In 2002, Lynn Wheelwright was flipping through an issue of Vintage Guitar magazine, hoping to improve his database of descriptions and ...
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Posted by jaso 361 days ago in Player News
When he was 16, Barney Kessel jammed with his hero, Charlie Christian. The year was 1940, and the venue was the Oklahoma Club in Christian’s hometown. Kessel, still in high school, was playing electri...
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Posted by jaso 367 days ago in Player News
John Hammond, father of the bluesman with the same name, was a towering figure of 20th-century recorded music. Born into the Vanderbilt family, Hammond was an unsurpassed talent scout and unswerving a...
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Posted by jaso 374 days ago in Player News
Charlie Christian expanded the boundaries of jazz and left us an unsurpassed collection of early electric guitar recordings. A brilliant soloist, Charlie departed Oklahoma City in August 1939 to try o...
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Les Paul
photo by Thomas Faivre-Duboz
Hollow-body or semi-hollow electric guitars used to sound more warm and open, than solid-body constructions. It's a big advantage for many blues and jazz player.....
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Posted by Sarssipius 533 days ago in Videos to Watch
... For the non-Jazz guitarists! Insightful lesson from Dave Weiner!
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Fender Jazzmaster is a very versatile kind of an electric guitar. Four pots and two switches are giving a lot of tone configurations. It's also something interesting for me, as someone who like to get...
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Warm, smooth sounding Telecaster, this is my target in this post.I would like to show you a simple mod of a wiring, which will make your Tele more jazzy and warm. If you like to play slow muddy blues ...
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Posted by Sarssipius 614 days ago in Guitar
I think Fender did some voodoo tricks to read my mind and bring out a series of guitars especially made for me!! Not innovative but some quite interesting features!
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