Essential Listening: Richard Bennett
Richard Bennett
Richard is a session man that has been around for decades. He has played for Dire Straits, Neil Diamond, Steve Earle, Marty Stuart, and Emmylou Harris. His solo recording titled Themes from a Rainy Decade has the greatest guitar tone around. If you like the clean guitar sounds of Surf, Hawaiian and the old themes from western movies then you’ll love this recording.
Phone: 281.386.6982 Email: brian@guitarlessonsbybrian.com
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Essential Listening: Adrian Belew
Adrian is a rock guitarist that has played with King Crimson and David Bowie. However, his solo endeavors are his best work. The recording Young Lions is one of my favorite recordings. He uses a Roland guitar synthesizer, a Fender Stratocaster guitar, and a Roland Jazz Chorus JC120 amplifier to create some great sounds.
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Essential Listening: Jeff Beck
Jeff mixes rock with jazz. He was one of the first players to popularize the style that came to be known as Fusion. His recordings, Jeff Beck Jeff Beck (his name written twice is not a typo) and Blow by Blow are my favorite.
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Essential Listening: The Beatles
The most influential musicians of the 20th Century. I have the complete scores of all the songs they recorded. It is as big as a dictionary. Abbey Road and The White Album are my favorite recordings but they are all great.
https://youtu.be/3w6fZb9gYSA
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Essential Listening: Chet Atkins
Chet is the maestro of solo fingerstyle guitar. He has influenced The Beatles, Tommy Emmanuel, Doyle Dykes, and just about every guitar player born since 1940. One of my favorite tunes by Chet is Yankee Doodle Dixie where he plays Yankee Doodle Dandy and then Dixie, and then both at the same time.
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Essential Listening: Howard Alden
Howard is a swing and jazz guitarist. I fell in love with his playing after seeing the Woody Allen movie Sweet and Lowdown. Howard and Bucky Pizzarelli did the guitar work on the sound track.
Phone: 281.386.6982 Email: brian@guitarlessonsbybrian.com
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Essential Listening: Oscar Aleman
Oscar was a jazz guitarist from Argentina. He was a contemporary and friend of Django Reinhardt. If you like Django you’ll like Oscar.
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Essential Listening: Charlie Christian
Whether you are an artist, poet, writer, architect, or a musician it is essential to study the masters and classics to gain knowledge in your chosen field. Listening and watching great musicians inspires the guitar student to practice more and work harder to achieve his goals. Part of being a good musician is finding good music to listen to. Creating a library of music is very important for the guitar student. To do so, we need to dig much deeper than the local radio stations. Go to the roots of the tree. Find out who your favorite guitarists listened to. The sources for research are unlimited with today’s technology.
Charlie played with Benny Goodman for a brief period in the late 1930s before his untimely death.. He was one of the first to play the electric guitar. He has influenced every major jazz guitarist that has come afterwards. In my opinion, he is the most influential of all jazz guitarists. My favorite songs of his are Flying Home, Till Tom Special, and Seven Come Eleven. They are on the Benny Goodman Sextet recordings.
Phone: 281.386.6982 Email: brian@guitarlessonsbybrian.com
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Essential Listening: Django Reinhardt
Whether you are an artist, poet, writer, architect, or a musician it is essential to study the masters and classics to gain knowledge in your chosen field. Listening and watching great musicians inspires the guitar student to practice more and work harder to achieve his goals. Part of being a good musician is finding good music to listen to. Creating a library of music is very important for the guitar student. To do so, we need to dig much deeper than the local radio stations. Go to the roots of the tree. Find out who your favorite guitarists listened to. The sources for research are unlimited with today’s technology.
Django is the man! He is the father of jazz guitar. Books have been written about the gypsy jazz guitarist. His left hand was terribly maimed in a fire in the wagon of his gypsy caravan. He overcame the handicap to become the most influential jazz guitarist of all time. He unknowingly created a school of virtuoso disciples. Visit Hot Club Radio and you’ll see what I mean. (Django made his mark playing in the Quintette of the Hot Club of France. Anytime you see the two words ‘Hot Club’ in conjunction with jazz and swing it is music in the style of Django and Stephane Grappelli). A few of my favorites songs are Lime House Blues, Tears, Swing 42, Oriental Shuffle and Nuages.
Phone: 281.386.6982 Email: brian@guitarlessonsbybrian.com
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