Jazz Repertoire - - - Dancing, and sometimes thinking on your feet.

The Guitar Styles of Peter Inglis has examples of my jazz performances on Solo Guitar - Acoustic Swing - Electric Guitar - latin - and more.




How to Create a Solo Jazz Guitar Arrangement

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Al Dimeola
- "Land of the Midnight Sun" (1977 ?) was an epochal electric guitar album in my opinion. Al Dimeola was quite young at the time he recorded it - - but what a distinctive style and sound! His electric playing inspired me to buy a Mesa Boogie amp - very expensive, exotic and hard to get down here in those days... and on the same album his Bach's Bouree in B minor inspired me to get a classical guitar. I'm sure many others had similar experiences. How many artists influence so many people in their lifetime?



Allan Holdsworth
- "Feels Good to Me" (Bill Bruford). My first thoughts were - that can't be a guitar.... no, impossible. Too smooth, too legato, must be an electric violin.... turned out he played that as well ! I saw him in concert in Sydney and met him through a mutual colleague. He is a personable chap who has opened new avenues of expression on the instrument.




Ike Isaacs
A true gentleman of the guitar. Ever giving of his time, playing with him showed me the process of relaxed, spontaneous music making at the highest level.




John McLaughlin
"Birds of Fire" - "Between Nothingness and Eternity" - "Apocalypse"
He combined the language of 60's jazz innovaters with the sound and vocabulary of rock. Of course I didn't know any of that the first time I heard him - all I knew is that it was loud - fast - and exciting ! John is a master of guitar fingering - the fingerings that work make it "oh, so easy" - and, as I've seen for myself, a walking, playing, history of the guitar. McLaughlin's exciting application of the harmonic and melodic concepts of Debussy, Stravinsky, Ravel, Bartok and others to the guitar ensures his place in history.



Joe Pass
"Virtuoso" - solo guitar with highly infectious rhythm - the guy swung hard and managed to keep all the balls in the air at once. That album is still a great model of solo guitar.




Andre Previn
Mostly known nowadays for his conducting, back in the 1950's Andre Previn had quite a number of smash hit jazz albums. Listening to his solo playing on "Andre Previn Plays Songs by Jerome Kern" you can hear that the guy has an incredibly sophisticated sense of harmony and the technique to apply these ideas on the fly to the songs. A near perfect blend of the classical and jazz mind.




McCoy Tyner
Arguably the creater of fusion? A tremendously exciting pianist. - more here - McCoy Tyner




John Williams and the Paul Hart Concerto
Jazz - Fusion - Bluegrass - Classical ? all of this and more !



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