Alisdair, Your dedication to this group is beyond devoted. Thanks for running the ship over all these years and thanks for the smooth transition over to Groups.io Cheers, Denis

Can we discuss Pent Up House for a second? In regards to playing this tune, a guy teaching it whose opinion I respect has said that he's always played this Sonny Rollins tune with the "blowing changes

Since the jazz guitar group has moved, I thought I would do a try-out post about something topical with the new set up. So did anybody buy any of the new George Benson Method books written with Peter

Larry G. “Zeek” Duff 12/27/1946-4/18/2019 Zeek was a long time member of this Jazz discussion group, all around good player and great guy. He made lots on contributions, in particular and notably on L

Legendary Guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli turns 94 The Syncopated Times Bucky Pizzarelli turned 94 on January 9th. Lew Shaw interviewed him for this profile. http://bit.ly/373b8DG -- Alisdair MacRae Birch

Vic Juris was diagnosed with cancer a few months ago, and unfortunately died today. I was fortunate to have heard him perform a couple of times over the years and he was a great player. I don't know e

Three years ago, just before Christmas 2016 Dave Woods died. Unfortunately he slipped on some ice and really tumbled badly, hitting his head. At the time I wrote a tribute to him with a brief obituary

Pioneering guitarist Arty McGlynn has died aged 75 Arty McGlynn was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland. When he was eleven, his mother got him a guitar and he began to explore the world of jazz whi

Evgeny Pobozhiy, Russian Prodigy, Wins International Jazz Guitar Competition : NPR http://bit.ly/33TtZ1s Dec 3, 2019: "Evgeny Pobozhiy, a virtuoso guitarist with a busy profile on the Moscow jazz scen

Talking of books, has anyone looked at or used Masaya Yamaguchi's books that I've seen on Amazon? https://www.amazon.com/Masaya-Yamaguchi/ His books on Miles and Coltrane looking interesting and his o

Came across this article by Luke Saunders ..guide to getting into Wes Montgomery in 5 essential albums. A little superficial but worth a read... https://happymag.tv/a-guide-to-getting-into-wes-montgom

Hey guy, this showed up in my facebook feed - searching around to see if its bogus or for real? https://www.gofundme.com/support-kenny-burrells://www.gofundme.com/support-kenny-burrell?fbclid=IwAR3BqK

*Best Jazz Guitar Albums: 75 Essential Listens* The best jazz guitar albums are up there with any other jazz classics you can think of. These 75 feature essential work by groundbreaking musicians. By

Hi everybody, This is part test, part self-promotion, hope that's cool. I've been playing and teaching guitar (everything from rock/pop, funk, r&b, jazz, and classical) for more than 40 years & I've w

Eddie Duran, SF’s go-to jazz guitarist, dies at 94 Sam Whiting November 26, 2019 Updated: November 29, 2019, 8:25 am "In the 1950s, the jazz giant Charlie “Bird” Parker came to San Francisco for a ser

Anyone work through this book? It's mainly Bergonzi's take on the Bebop scale, with tunes derivative of Bebop tunes such as Blues For Alice, Joy Spring, etc. For minor key tunes, he uses IV7b9b13. Any

Chuck Groups.io is new to me, but lets see if we can figure this out. The first thing I see is that with groups.io your profile information is controlled solely by you (currently, I believe moderators

What do previous members of yahoo group need to do to send mail in to the group , i.e. new posts ? do we need new credentials , password ? frank forte

Folks It's the end of an era.... Yahoo's former CEO Marissa Mayer effectively destroyed Yahoo groups back in 2013, 'WTF! MORONS!' Yahoo! Groups! redesign! traumatises! users! • The Register http://bit

Chuck Sher's jazz radio show - tonight! 7pm - 11pm (PST). Listen online! https://forums.shermusic.com/showthread.php?tid=3