Dear All, This forum, as I understand it, is devoted to the lute and all pertinent topics. The contributions of Julian Bream are an important part of the history of the lute in the 20th century. Or should we consider that there is no history of the lute after the 18th century? I, for one, have the deepest admiration for figures such as Dolmetsh or Poulton, and of course Bream, with whom I recognize a debt and who hold my deepest admiration. Antonio Corona (who hasn't played the guitar for more the 20 years) On Sunday, 8 December 2013, 11:06, Dan Winheld <[email protected]> wrote: "there were some jazzcats in the 16th century writing cool stuff for 7-courses too." Terzi Van Eps. My top R-lute student and I are doing his "frozen-in-time-for-our-benefit" improvisations. The classical guitarist I alternate Saturday afternoon gigs with has a John Coltrane arrangement or two in his bag of tricks. That seems to be a more common phenomenon for many of us "Classically" trained non-improvisers; to take (or make) a few complete Jazz compositions and play them as composed, discrete pieces- just material in our regular repertoire. Ironically, as I've gotten better at the actual lute music over a lifetime of immersion, I do add some improv bits- and sections- to some of the lute stuff that seems to "want" it, but play my modern pieces note-for-note. Need another lifetime or three to really get some of this stuff down properly. Jody Fischer is a superb Jazz guitarist out of the L.A. area (fingers/pick, single line/harmony- complete package musician) who may still be posting on-line guitar lessons. Very worthwhile for all guitarists/lutenists, particularly for nuts 'n bolts stuff- like how to work into a difficult chord fingering; first getting comfy with the chord itself, then how to move into & out of it fluently. Dan On 12/8/2013 1:16 AM, David van Ooijen wrote: > >> > > > Playing melody, harmony and bass for a jazz guitarist was not new > when Joe Pass did it so superbly. Check out George Van Eps (7 string > jazz guitar), Charlie Byrd (jazz on a classical guitar), Jim Hall, > Buddy Fite, Chet Atkins (solo guitar version of Souza's "Stars and > Stripes Forever" complete with piccolo obligato), Jimmy Wyble ("The > Art of Two Line Improvisation") etc., etc. > > << > I know, hence my quotation marks around the word new, but it was Joe's > selling line. Btw, I think before George van Eps did his thing (his > method is availbale as pdf online, if you can't find it I'll mail it to > people who are interested. Out-of print as far as I know) there were > some jazzcats in the 16th century writing cool stuff for 7-courses too. > History does have a tendency ... > David > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
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