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Has anyone spent time listening or transcibing Russell Malone ?
If I were to emulate any one guitar player it would Russell. He can ...

Wow Mark, that version of Freight Trane was awesome! I think that is one of your best recordings. I hate to follow it with my blues composition that you mentioned in your post, but here goes anyway. ...

One of the first blues heads I learned was Swingin' Shepherd Blues. I was on one of my first gigs and the sax player called it. I thought it was pretty cool that he had a head to play over blues cha ...

Thank you for those kind comments Mark. When I read through all of the posts on this subject I was kind of surprised by some peoples perception of blues and jazz. Some of the players that were talke ...

There are plenty of young players out there that can play jazz in its finest tradition and then some! I heard a 28 year old guitarist in Ft. Myers Fla last year that blew me away, awesome. He was pl ...

I have been there! I quit playing for almost ten years. You will be surprised at how fast it comes back, and how fast you will improve. I think even though I wasn't playing all those years my brain ...

Yes, my question was tongue-in-cheek. I have run the gamut in trying to sound like a jazz player. I started, as Mark did, only using scales. Not anymore. I have heard, probably not true, that Wes ...

What do you mean by "riff based" players?

Cool,, one more thing I have to buy.

Joe rocks! How many players can go from burning with Oscar to smoothing it as he did on Whitestone. He had BIG EARS!

Dave

As a reformed scale player, it is my opinion that scales are a means to an end but would never get me to the place I want to go musically. I look at scales like I do the alphabet. We all know the al ...

Ode to Kudo from Weekend in LA. To me, this song is a masterpiece of all the elements of Jazz that I like. The tasteful start to the ripping end. I still get goosebumps when I listen to it.

Geor ...

I played with the scale approach for years when I first started and I sounded like it.

I had an epiphany when I heard George play Breezin back in the 70's. I started stealing licks off that albu ...

What has helped me is to start SLOW. I mean real slow. If you know where the top end of your comfort zone is whack it by a third. Say you are comfortable with eighth notes up to about 210 beats per ...

This is a good question. When I first started playing with just a bass player, I got lost a lot. I tend to go off by ear into la la land and suddenly find I don't know where I am. Not hearing the ch ...