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Seattle Guitar Notes Guitar Lessons Seattle: Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 The Headhunter himself -- Herbie Hancock -- goes afield for the lead guitar player in this clip...it's Lionel Louke, from Benin, Africa. And the rhythm guitar player -- the dude with the hat -- could be said to be the man who REALLY put the rhythm into rhythm guitar playing. That is none other than Melvin Ragin -- better known as Wah Wat Watson -- Headhunter and one of the world's premier studio guitar players.
Guitar Lessons Seattle: Friday, July 13th, 2007 But then going afield again, here's another "guitar globalization" clip featuring a couple of guitar players who you won't find on MTV, but who are top dogs in their neck of the woods (Bahia, Brazil) and in their style (chula and samba-de-roda). This was just a lazy Sunday afternoon in Roberto Mendes's house (for afficionados of Brazilian music, Roberto Mendes writes a lot for Maria Bethânia...the second-best selling female Brazilian singer of all time). Maria was raised around the corner and down the street from where this "video" was shot.
That small ukelele-like instrument is called a "cavaquinho". Guitar Lessons Seattle: Thursday, July 12th, 2007 Of course one doesn't need to go as far afield as Brazil to find great contemporary guitar players. I mention my Eric Johnson Strat above. Here's a clip of Eric and his axe at the Bottom Line in New York City...
Guitar Lessons Seattle: Monday, July 9th, 2007 Keeping in mind the globalization of guitar-playing and the far reaches of this instrument's sounds, here is an interesting clip featuring a young jazz guitarist from Brazil. This is our friend Jurandir Santana, raised on American jazz standards, but here playing a very Afro-Bahian style of music (a song by another friend of ours, Roberto Mendes) on an instrument common to this style of music, a viola de dez (consisting of five double sets of strings).
You can catch Jurandir in Europe this August and September! More on Jurandir Santana and Roberto Mendes on this page! Guitar Lessons Seattle: Monday, June 18th, 2007 If you live around here you probably already know, but just in case you don't I'll tell you: Seattle, Washington has a favorite son, and that is none other than soulful rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix: Seattle Guitar Giant)!
Guitar Lessons Seattle: Sunday, June 17th, 2007 With respect to my own life and its division into living places, the second of those places (Indianapolis) has an amazing son and that is none other than jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery (Wes Montgomery: Guitar Wizard).
Here's Wes getting down in Hamburg, in 1965. Notice that right hand...Wes invented his own style! Guitar Lessons Seattle: Friday, June 15th, 2007 Havana, where I was born and a place the music of which took a jump into the American public consciousness because of the film Buena Vista Social Club, is home to a marvelous guitarist, Leo Brouwer (Leo Brouer: Cuban Classical Guitar).
Here's Leo Brouer's Un dia de Noviembre as performed by Russian guitarist Dmitri Illarionov... |
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