stylo

the 'girl of steel'

  • she/her

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

vgm ep @ bandcamp.com/stylo-v


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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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what the hell is wrong with people who insist that guitar and piano can't play together?? at its best it's this beautiful amalgam, both chordal instruments that excel at single lines, each comps for the other in a beautiful melodic and harmonic conversation... it's so special!! FUCK

need to look up the piano player on this record


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This is very nice, and also I went down a little rabbit hole trying to figure out why the video is called "The Virus (El-B Vocal Remix) (2001 Remaster)". There is an album called "In The Now" by the band Mutiny, also released in 2001, that includes the track "The Virus", and an "El-B Vocal Remix" of it also released that year. The "(2001 Remaster)" bit seems to be specific to the "The Sound of the Johnny Smith Guitar" release, though. Similarly, the credits on the YouTube upload are a mixture of the credits for both songs.

Both tracks are ultimately owned by EMI, but the Johnny Smith is under the Roulette Jazz imprint, while the Mutiny track is from Parlophone. Aside from this and the release date, I can't find any connection between them...

wow weird!! i definitely was wondering about that title, it's just so out of keeping with an old school jazz track... both apple music and youtube have it that way so it must be some weird metadata mixup that's propagating across systems. interesting stuff ty

it turns out the actual name of the song is I Can't Get Started