There are only a handful of legendary Jazz Guitarists today that can demand the respect and admiration due them after a life time of majestic devotion to the art of Jazz Guitar. Gene Bertoncini is […]
Randy Johnston is the real deal, a consummate Jazz Guitarist equally adept at playing bop, modal, and blues lines like nobody’s business. And on his new Mel Bay DVD release Randy Johnston: Live at the […]
Do the names John Pizzarelli or Rick Haydon ring any bells? Well the first one should, given that John is the son of legendary Jazz Guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and an extremely popular Jazz Guitarist/Vocalist in […]
Jazz may have originated in the United States, but it has become a leading cultural export having been adopted by countless guys and gals in diverse cultural communities worldwide as their music of choice. Japanese […]
“I took two lessons from Gene Bertoncini when I moved to Jersey City from Boston. He asked me to play solo guitar in his second lesson and I played my solo guitar version of ‘’My […]
“At that point, you’d think I was a woman just let out of prison. I practiced like a maniac, took classes and private lessons in theory and arranging, joined combos, accompanied singers and played in a […]
“When I decided to make a career in music, I came to Boston to study at Berklee. I found out pretty quickly that jazz and the type of music that excites me is hard to learn […]
“Making a living! That was my main motivation. I had a gig at the time that was six hours a night, six nights a week sometimes seven playing standards with a trio like Oscar Peterson’s […]
“…musicians are really sensitive generally, sometimes overly so. But it’s a good thing to be in that kind of realm and having that sensitivity and having to practice that sensitivity all the time. You want […]
“The guitar fretboard is vexing terrain, unlike the piano finger board which proceeds with relentless logic from the lowest note on the left, to the highest on the right, the fretboard has a geometry all […]
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