Pat and Ulf - Bright Size Life

Wes Montgomery - DVD of the upcoming Jazz Icons: Series Two box Set

Jazz Icons here click the image.

French Wes Montgomery Tribute Band

Sud-Wes

Check out their video page for a nice Wes guitar-style tutorial

Two New Videos from "The Master"

Bireli Lagrene

Online Jazz Guitar Instruction Advances

Barry Greene's podcast (free for audio only, $25 for audio and video) are now on iTunes. You can access the first three podcasts by clicking this link (if you have iTunes installed) or this link if you don't.

And Jimmy Bruno is going gangbusters adding new material to the Jimmy Bruno Guitar Institute.

Pat Martino - Four on Six

The Long Tail

For me, nothing illustrates the Long Tail better than the superb outliers in the field of jazz. Here are some artists I've been listening to lately. Thank you emusic.

Frank Potenza, guitar

Alan Pasqua, piano

Bob Ferrazza, guitar

Ed Bickert, guitar

Enrico Pieranunzi, piano

Fred Hersch, piano

Jack Wilkins, guitar

Mark Elf, piano

Phil Upchurch, guitar

Randy Johnston, guitar

Joshua Breakstone, guitar

I'd wager you could stop a thousand people on the street in any city in America (with the possible exception of New York), read this list of musicians to them, and they would not recognize even one of these extraordinarily talented artists. Pity, but with a very few exceptions, that seems to be the fate of jazz musicians. Hey, it's not like these guys didn't know what they were getting into.

Pat Metheny and Mick Goodrick

Click here to view on Youtube.

Jack Wilkins - Here's That Rainy Day

Internet Guitar Instruction Coming of Age

It's been apparent to for some time that learning the guitar will never be the same after high-speed Internet. The number of online guitar instruction sites has been mushrooming for some time. Like almost everything else on the Internet, it's hard to keep up. A couple of recent interesting arrivals that hold real promise are Barry Greene's Podcasts and the Jimmy Bruno Guitar Institute. Both of these guitarists are absolute masters, and their lessons are comprehensive and inspirational.

Another Fabulous Birelli Lagrene Performance

At Djangobooks.com.

Online Lesson by Mimi Fox on Jazz Improv TV

Click on the guitar in the channels section at the bottom of the screen.

Quick update. there's a lot of content here: concert videos and lessons by many other guitarists - a site worth exploring.

Lonnie Johnson Bio

There is an interesting article on the great blues musician Lonnie Johnson here.

Wes Montgomery - Last of the Wine

Jazzerman

Dick Onstenk is a excellent amateur guitarist who has posted close to 100 jazz guitar videos on YouTube and who has built up quite a following. He has published a video FAQ in which he answers a lot of questions about what kind of equipment he uses, how be bacame a jazz guitarist, and so forth.

Links to the FAQ are here and here.

Here are a couple of his videos:



Blues for Alice



Charlie Parker on Guitar

Mimi Fox Interview

An excellent interview with jazz guitarist Mimi Fox appears on Jazz Guitar Life at this link.

More Bill Evans

Bill Evans

An interesting discussion of Bill Evans, in the context of a review of a new DVD, Bill Evans: The Oslo Concerts

Jimmy Rosenberg - Hungaria

I can't embed this video, but it is must see for no other reason than to stand agog at his technique.

This segment is from a newly published DVD titled "Jimmy Rosenberg is Back."

Click here


More Rosenberg video excerpts here and here

Some recently discovered jazz guitar videos

Jeff Beck, Peter King and Lulu - Cry Me A River



Barney Kessel - One Mint Julep



Hassan Cihat Order - Take Five



Scotty Anderson



Kevin Van Sant - Leila

Dailymotion.com comes through again - superb Wes Montgomery Video - Wes in the studio jamming with Pim Jacobs and others

Wes Montgomery & Pim Jacobs 3
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Bird Lives

A video blog by Bret Primack, "Jazz, World Affairs, Comedy, New Media, Ethnic Cuisine, Spiritualilty, Cinema, Yoga and Life Itself"

Primack ("The Jazz Video Guy") also runs JazzVideoLand, which as of this posting, has 120 jazz videos.

Two Full Length "Gypsy Jazz" Concerts - Birelli and Luc

Bireli Lagrene et Sylvain Luc - Full Live Jazz in Marciac 2000

and

Sylvain Luc - Le petit Géant

Both on Google Video Nederland (beta)

Jeffrey Burr

Wonderful jazz guitar chord melody arrangement by Burr, looking a bit hungover and with a bad case of pillow head.

Mimi Fox - When the Saints Go Marching

From her Perpetually Hip CD

Click here for a great interview with Mimi Fox.

Interesting Interview With Jimmy Bruno

Click here

Another Emily Remler Video

Pat Martino - At One With His Favorite Toy

Click the Image

A Nice Robben Ford Video

Pat Metheny's Podcast Series

Bloomfield