Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar

World of Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar featuring Martin Taylor, Jim Nichols, Tommy Crook, Duck Baker & Woody Mann ...

The World of Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar From the beginning, the guitar has played a central role in the development and expression ...

Aleman and Charlie Christian, who in turn advanced the evolution of jazz guitar by a quantum leap. Records by Reinhardt (with th ...

Martin Taylor When Martin Taylor picks up a guitar, his intent is not merely to play music. He wants to entertain, if not dazzle ...

“Buck” Taylor, was a jazz bassist who worked in a band on weekends. Mr. Taylor also played the guitar, and he and his musician f ...

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reputation as a bright young talent, invited him to play a series of concerts with him in France and Belgium. Grappelli liked Ta ...

were on a plane and he said ‘I’ll give you a bit of advice about playing. It’s a piece of advice that Maurice Chevalier gave me. ...

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do with my life. Chet was my biggest influence.” After a brief stint in college, Crook started playing guitar regularly with old ...

Jim Nichols Jim Nichols is living proof that you don’t have to be a child of the big city to become an outstanding jazz musician ...

this little farm town where I lived, you could listen to Howard Roberts playing ‘The Shadow of Your Smile.’ I thought it was gre ...

Nichols’ playing on “A Taste Of Honey” is an obvious nod to Chet Atkins (who recorded a similar version many years ago), where t ...

Duck Baker A good question usually deserves a good answer. Ask Duck Baker about “Seven Point One,” an original composition inclu ...

Like most kids his age, he was interested in playing electric rock and roll before his fancy turned to the acoustic guitar and f ...

“Davey played that tune and I fell in love with it, and I got him to show it to me,” Baker says. ”I like it because it’s not an ...

Woody Mann In a very real sense, the four original compositions performed by Woody Mann mark the turning of a full musical circl ...

the whole world of music for me. For 10 years I played only straight ahead jazz. I played with Atilla Zoller, and studied as muc ...

it sound complete. I love his sense of improvisation – it just works!” Mann uses a low C and G tuning for “Gypsy Girl,” which ha ...

Martin Taylor (Recorded at the Manchester Craftmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA. 1996. Directed by Jay Ashby) Shiny Stockings 5: by F ...