My 10 Ten Jazz Guitarists
In no particular order, these jazz guitarists are to me, the top 10 most influential players both past and present.
Wes Montgomery
I had direct contact with Wes when I was sixteen. He had an outstanding feel for jazz and was able to successfully integrate blues into jazz without becoming a blues guitar player.
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Johnny Smith
Johhny Smith had a flawless technique and was one of the first to use the straight arm picking technique. In the long run, his technique may have become his downfall. He was almost too clean. He didn’t have the dark, blues vibe in his playing but he was a superb jazz guitarist. It’s amazing how little today’s jazz writers recognize Smith. He won 10 consecutive Downbeat Magazine Best Jazz Guitarist awards.
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Understanding Your Musical Convictions
One of the biggest problems that musicians face is holding on to their own musical identity and integrity. It’s often tempting to bail out on your own direction and capitulate to an agent, an audience, a label or society in general.
Even with my experience in this business, I continue to be surprised by how a negative or even a neutral comment will often throw me out of balance. If someone says that my new CD “Freefall” is “nice”, it throws me. If someone doesn’t like my direction, my style, my songs or my sound, I feel emotionally like I should change what I do – what I am to please them. The logical side of me knows that this is not true. But the logical side isn’t the only side that operates. In the arts, it’s probably not even the most important side.
Read MoreThe Internet and Musicians – An Interview with Eric Hebert
The internet holds enormous potential for jazz musicians.
Many of us have little to no idea of how to take advantage of it. We tend to have websites, Facebook and maybe Twitter. How many of us are happy with the results we get from our efforts? After much searching, I have found Delaware Marketing & Advertising firm Evolvor.com. The following interview was conducted with Eric Hebert of Evolvor on the subject of maximizing exposure through the internet.
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