stylo

the 'girl of steel'

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trans dyke, 32, jazz musician, counter strike, maybe some other stuff idk

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there's a lot of names that come up in the discussion of great jazz guitarists: Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Grant green... I see very few people mention Johnny smith. not sure why that is! I mean he had a relatively short recording career, but... there's very few jazz guitarists who have ever played with this much taste when it comes to melody and spare voicings. Two notes is a chord! and all his runs are exactly what needs to be played to connect the dots between one chord and the other - no endless eighth-note ramblings.

I'm obsessed with his version of Misty, the improvising in between the melody is exactly what I was looking for


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prima - autumn leaves https://youtu.be/C-RUtH2Qc1w

nothing against lofi but the sampled version is kind of a disappointment after hearing the original, I mean the sampling adds very little imo.


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in reply to @stylo's post:

Lenny Breau was a cool guitarist I only heard about and started listening to recently; part of his "thing" is doing simultaneous lines/comping, but he does it in a very musical way. Chuck Wayne, Jimmy Raney, and Tal Farlow are three more "cool" guitarists I didn't hear about for a while.

Yeah! I really like Lenny Breau's lines, he seems to 'get' different guitar paradigms (country, blues etc) and bring them naturally into jazz. Kenny Burrell too. I can't get into Tal Farlow's tone, it's so mid-heavy. I'll check out Chuck Wayne and I think I have a little Jimmy Raney I haven't listened to!

as a keyboardist i'm totally not in touch with guitar tone lol. the typical clean jazz guitar tone can honestly kinda wash over me and i'm like "oh huh the guitar solo just happened" (often i'm listening really intently to organ) Raney has some cool stuff - there's an oddball album called "Two Jims and Zoot" which is Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall with Zoot Sims (bass/drums are Steve Swallow and Osie Johnson), and I have one of him with his son Doug. also recorded a fair amount in Red Norvo's trio with Red Mitchell. some more artists i'm just discovering are Oscar Moore and John Collins. there's also a Herb Ellis/Remo Palmier[i] album, Windflower, that got uploaded to YouTube and has millions of plays so now it's like $100 to for a cheap copy.