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Edition #89, May 8, 2000

AND ALL THAT JAZZ

Like jazz? Seen this site?
http://www.jazzguitar.com

Or this one?
http://webhome.idirect.com/~joegold/jazguitless.htm

The site belongs to Mr. Goldstein who is a jazz guitar player working out of Toronto, Canada. He is writing a book on jazz theory and practices, and he has kindly pinned up his chapters on the Internet for us to review!

Please don't be put off by the fact that the book deals with jazz - even the heaviest metal-shredders borrow from jazz concepts from time to time.

The book is a monumental work, a huge effort on the part of Mr. Goldstein, and I wonder where he found the time! For most of my mailing list it may be a bit too complicated, but have a look anyway. You don't necessarily have to understand the details, sometimes just the concepts can be helpful. For example, in his chapter on "Shell Voicings", Mr. Goldstein points out that an accompanying guitarist often doesn't have to play the root or the fifth of the chord because the root is usually covered by the bass player, and the fifth is largely understood by the listener. So a guitar player can often play only the notes that give the chord its "colors" - the thirds, sevenths, ninths, flat ninths, sixths, combinations of the preceding, etc., etc., etc. Great concept!
http://webhome.idirect.com/~joegold/jazguitless.htm

See also:

INDEPENDENCE JAZZ REUNION
recently reformed after a hiatus of nearly 40 years. The band first came together in Philadelphia as high school and college students in the late 1950s. After releasing an album, touring Europe and the jazz clubs of the East Coast, and performing at Carnegie Hall, IJR was just about to audition for "The Ed Sullivan Show" when bandleader Rick Lundquist got drafted into the Army! The group members all went on to lucrative and rewarding careers (two professional musicians, two professors, an aeronautics engineer, airline VP, a Poet Laureate, a Fulbright Senior Scholar and business professor) and now, when others dream of retirement, four of the original members and two of their lifelong friends have picked up their first dream and are back together... http://www.ijr.net/

And for Jimmy Bruno fans...

JIMMY BRUNO TAB
Guitar News Weekly #67, November 22, 1999
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/991122/28.shtml

JAZZ GUITARIST
JIMMY BRUNO (Guitar News Weekly #59, September 27, 1999
"One of the finest jazz guitarists in Philadelphia", Jimmy Bruno is a passionate hard bopper who loves to swing aggressively but can be a very sensitive ballad player...
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/990927/13.shtml

ALL THAT JAZZ
Guitar News Weekly #59, September 27, 1999
"INSIDE OUT" (A Blues for Jimmy) This is a very unique Bb swing blues original, dedicated to jazz guitar great Jimmy Bruno
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/990927/12.shtml

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