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- From: patlo@microsoft.com (Pat Loughery)
- Subject: Re: Jazz Guitar recommendations
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.000247.24997@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 00:02:47 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <1992Dec29.201336.26635@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.201336.26635@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> mha1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu wrote:
- > I'm looking to get turned on to something new, but I'm not sure what.
- > While recently listening to the 2 earliest Pat Metheny Group albums (Pat
- > Meth. Grp., 1978; American Garage, 1979) I realized that I had little
- > other guitar stuff. I like those early albums as Pat has a nice sound on
- > his big hollow-body and the group plays tight fusion-type jazz, but
- > without some of the bombasticness of the more recent, highly synthesized
- > "ensemble" recordings. Anyone have any album recommendations of similar
- > stuff? Scofield, Abercrombie, etc??
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- Howard Roberts. Check out "Howard Roberts plays a dirty guitar" or something
- very similar to that. ("mean guitar"?).
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- Sounds like you might like Stanley Jordan also. Joe Pass, George Benson and
- Earl Klugh might tickle your fancy, but they're not fusion-oriented at all.
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- Pat Loughery [patlo@microsoft.com] Seattle, WA
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