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There’s a live record by Kenny Burrell, called „A Night at the Vanguard“, recorded Sept. 16 and 17 1959. I read about this record some years ago in the great book “Die Gitarre im Jazz” by Juergen Schw ...

Dear Mark, dear forum members

First I was quite surprised by your reactions when I brought up Lionel Loueke. But I see: My introduction was misleading. For me he’s Blues rooted and stands in the tr ...

Mark wrote:
Once again, this is a subjective issue. With all due respect, if the jazz guitar player in question severely lacks the blues component that has always been at the very foundation of the g ...

Todd wrote

I tend to listen to jazz players and their recordings from the 50's-60's, and am familiar with some of those who are now carrying the torches of previous players, but how would you desc ...

Gorecki wrote:
...you gave a great example using Hawkins, someone who had a large influence. He also was continuously influenced by (aka stole from) others in his later years. But he like Jazz in gen ...

Gorecki wrote:
Where is it going? Who knows...that's like asking who will win the next World Cup or will it be sunny or cloudy on Oct 5th 2011....nobody knows..all of that is forecasting and is a wa ...

Dear friends

Okay, I agree, there’s a certain logic that horn players were first and guitarists often a step behind. But let’s go back to the main subject: The future of Jazz (guitar). I’m still cu ...

Todd wrote
In one workshop a well known jazz guitartist said that jazz guitar is typically behind a few in years in comparison to other jazz instrumentalists. And that Wes changed the jazz guitar wor ...

thaydon wrote:
I believe music has a practical side to it. Nearly all styles of music have a purpose or end result for the compositions; classical for church services or special occasions, or to acco ...

Actually, for a "poor little Swiss boy" you are FAR more in touch with the history of jazz and jazz guitar than most aspiring players I meet here, and frankly I'm not surprised. Not only hav ...

It's hard to truly predict the future of jazz guitar or jazz in general. While I do believe that there are brilliant players all over the world who remain dedicated to the genre, so many are working i ...

Ooops! Now I’ve got a difference of opinion with my (guitar) teacher! It’s quite a long time since I had such thing, because now I’m used to be the teacher myself and dispute with my students. Laughing

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Mark

I’m absolutely sure that Andreas Oberg is a brilliant guitarist. And I’m absolutely sure that I would like his playing as you do, because I love the music of Wes, Kenny, Jim Hall, Tal Farlow a ...

There are lots of Jazz guitarists I adore, but the most of them have one thing in common: They are about fifty years old or even (much) older. In the history of Jazz, up to the seventies or maybe the ...

Mark,
thank you for the compliment! What's about George's way to play octaves? I once read about a further development of the Montgomery way to play octaves by adding the fifth. Is this true? And if ...