Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Monday, September 25, 2006
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Friday, September 22, 2006
Keith Jarrett, Umbria Jazz Festival, 1974
This man has muscles in his hands where other people have only tendons and bones
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Chordbook.com
If you love guitar chords -- and what jazz guitarist doesn't? -- this is the site for you. To quote from the site:
Virtual Guitar & Chordbook is our main application, this features a flash modelled guitar, over 1300 guitar chords and inversions. You can save chords to your chordbank (mychords).
On the guitar you can do all the normal stuff, like put on a capo go up and down the frets, drag and drop the finger markers to make your own guitar chords.
Chord Sequencer: you can sequence your guitar chords and play them back in the mychords area!
Learn to play scales and improve your lead solos, with the guitar scales generator. Quick tune your guitar using the guitar tuner and try out alternative tunings.
Jessica Williams
A superb pianist whose music I have been enjoying greatly as of late. Highly recommended to jazz piano afficionados. Her music is available on Emusic and Rhapsody.
JessicaWilliams.com
Ms. Williams maintains a very personal (but infrequent) blog here.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Gypsy Jazz Videos
Click here for a spectacular collections of videos, including Bireli Lagrene, Jimmy Rosenberg and many, many others.
Friday, September 08, 2006
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
European Guitarists Don't Get Enough Respect
For some reason, the great European jazz guitarists don't get a lot of exposure in the U.S. Not suprising, I suppose, since even the great U.S. jazz guitarists don't get enough attention.
A lot of Europoean jazz guitarists are amazing virtuosos. Their technique is nothing short of astounding. Two high quality videos, linked below, feature Bireli Lagrene and Joscho Stephan.
A lot of Europoean jazz guitarists are amazing virtuosos. Their technique is nothing short of astounding. Two high quality videos, linked below, feature Bireli Lagrene and Joscho Stephan.
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