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Joe Pass Youtube Video

Tony Hogan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:24:30 +0000

Here’s a great video of Joe Pass playing in a jazz combo in 1964. Thankyou to Dan Adler for making me aware of this recording

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Jazz Guitar Video Youtube Jimmy Raney

Tony Hogan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:05:05 +0000

I’ve been seeing so much good jazz guitar video’s which are available lately, I thought I’d post another one. This is Jimmy Raney, he’s not a household name like Montgomery, Kessell or Joe Pass but amongst jazz guitar players he’s held in very high regard. His son is also a great player as well. Here he is doing the jazz standard Out of Nowhere.

Jazz Guitar Youtube Joe Diorio Pat Metheny

Tony Hogan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:19:34 +0000

Here’s a great Jazz Guitar Youtube of Joe Diorio and Pat Metheny. The tune they are doing is a jzz/ blues classic called Blues in the closet.

Joe Diorio is a very well respected guitar player amongst jazz guitar players, in fact he is held in the highest regard. To hear him here with Pat Metheny is a real treat.

Here is a link to Joe’s Myspace page Joe Diorio MySpace

Jazz Guitar Youtube Chuck Anderson

Tony Hogan — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:29:13 +0000

Here is some great jazz guitar that has everything in it, and in this case it’s great, chordal solos, fast hot jazz shredding, octaves and some beautiful flowing lines, it’s a great mix of various tequniques strung ( guitar joke) together very nicely. The guitar player is Chuck Anderson, the tune is the magnificent standard “There Will Never Be Another You”. Run it through a couple of times to get a good idea of what’s really going on here.

Here is Chuck’s site for more information about this great playing. Check him out at Chuck Anderson

And really if you are going to listen to jazz guitar, you may as well listen to the great stuff!

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Robert Cray Albert Collins Youtube

Tony Hogan — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:43:54 +0000

Robert Cray and Albert Collins together, both are exceptional blues players. Very different in style, Albert plays a Fender Tele, what is unusual about his playing is he often uses a capo. Albert Collins’s playing seems to have sweetened over the years, he has an extraordinary bite in his playing. Robert Cray, the silky voiced bluesman achieved great commercial success in the eighties. Robert would probably be the smoothest blues player getting around. Robert first started playing because he liked the Beatles music. He mixes the the brilliant blues of the past with the production quality of the present.

If you want to hear an exception album, have a listen to the Showdown album, it included a third great blues player Johnny Cougar.

Pat Martino and John Schofield Youtube

Tony Hogan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:50:53 +0000

I was sitting at home listening to the Pat Martino CD We’ll be Together Again and then I realised that there maybe guitar players thatdon’t know this great jazz guitar legend. Pat has had a very interesting journey in life and recovered from a very serious illness. He is probably one of the most fluent players in the history of guitar. Here is is on Youtube video with another great contemporary jazz guitar player John Schofield. I saw John Schofield play in the early eighties in a guitar duet, I still haven’t recovered.

Truly remarkable guitar playing if you care to look at it closely.

Charlie Christian Youtube Jazz Guitar

Tony Hogan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:11:51 +0000

When Charlie Christian first played the electric guitar in the late 30’s anbd early 1940’s, when most people heard it they did not realise that it was an electric guitar, it was a new phenomena. This youtube video is not Charlie Christian playing live, it is a series of photographs, but the recording of him playing Stomping at the Savoy live in 1941 is of great historical interest to guitar players. So many of the great jazz plays fashioned their style on Charlie Christian. He died very young, just like Hendrix did. His impact is not widely recognised outside of jazz guitar circles.

Wes Montgomery Youtube Jazz Guitar

Tony Hogan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:52:40 +0000

When people have said Wes Montgomery was the worlds best jazz guitarist, very few jazz guitar ;players question it. When Wes played Round Midnight set the benchmark for all other jazz guitar players to be measured against. I’ts 36 years since I first heard this, and still today I’m in awe.

Duke Robillard Youtube

Tony Hogan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:24:58 +0000

You may know the great blues guitar player, Duke Robillard. Well here’s Duke in another setting playing a semi acoustic guitar solo. Some players might think this sort of thing is easy to do. Try it, see if you can play solo single lines with a few double stops and chords every now and then, just solo through a blues or simple jazz tune without stopping. Joe Pass, Martin Taylor, Kenny Burrell and others are great (or were) at this. This a a great way to strengthen your playing, stay with in the paramaters of a blues guitar progression and keep going. I lie this Duke Robillard on Youtube Video, it displays another aspect of his playing

Ronnie Jordan Youtube Jazz Funk Guitar

Tony Hogan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:01:20 +0000

Ronnie Jordan is a very good contemporary jazz player, he plays very musically compared to a lot of other players and his emphasis is very much on feel. In this youtube video he is playing the jazz standard by Miles Davis called So What.