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Old thread, new thoughts on the Tone-Gard . . . I've had one on the back of my old Gibson for decades, but it recently went missing. Just contacted Tony for a replacement. I believe in them...

Eddy Davis.

Joel is still messing about with projects that interest him. He just strung up a few mezzomandolins, as we call them - - F to D, whole step down. One of his Selmer style tenors is making it's way to...

Wow!

Say it ain't so! I've very much enjoyed your writing on mandolin jazz and teaching ideas over the years. Thanks for all your efforts, much appreciated, Ted.

catmandu2: A couple of my favorites by Stitt are the sessions with Barry Harris, Bob Cranshaw and Billy Higgins - Tune Up and Constellation.

Yup, those were the albums (vinyl, of course) that...

Don, I don't know if your caps lock got stuck on when typing your list but was happy to see Sonny Stitt in ALL CAPS. I think his bop licks lay nicely on mando - I've especially been trying to phrase...

Yes - - always thought of vibes solos as a rich field to explore for mandolin. I've been transcribing Milt Jackson solos for years to get that bluesy spirit-feel he has - - great stuff!

One tune I use for technique skills is Golden Eagle Hornpipe - - uses all the strings, lots of tricky string crossings, and the B part has some interesting harmonic leaps.

Marla Fibish is joining myself, Matt Shipman and David Surette at David's great long running March Mando Camp in Concord, N.H. - the first week in March. I'll be teaching some choro and jazz improv...

Yeah, Paul!

I finger pick - - using fingers (!), a modified Travis picking in a folkie or Honky Tonk situation. I play a National Steel tenor tuned as an octave mando, so tend toward the "powerchords" (A= 2245)...

Just adding a few cents here - - In the huge world of the internets there is no site comparable to the Cafe for mando-classifieds.
If a big volume wheeler-dealer is taking advantage of what has...

Wow! Just . . wow! Fantastic playing, great interview - - many thanks.

In the Ella (and Louis) version, the bridge goes to Ab (from C), in the Cass Elliot version, the bridge goes to A - - been a souce of confusion on many a bandstand, depending on what version the...

What a cornucopia of helpful tips! Pete's advice to relax behind the instrument is basic, up and down picking, learning tunes, all invaluable. I pretty much play every day and I start by playing...

Marilynn Mair just sent a note and rather than making this into a news item we thought it would fit just as well or better here.

Wow! Many thanks to Scott and Marilyn! This will keep me busy for...

Altho I started on piano at an early age and had a leg up, so to speak, I really learned sight reading by going thru the 1001 Fiddle Tunes, and O'Neill's Music of Ireland - Irish tunes by the...

So you could play a full 4 set evening of music with 1 chord chart!

As David KOS mentioned, I think of (and I think a lot of swing players do as well) as the role of a diminished scale or arpeggio in a progression as outlining a 7b9 chord, i.e. a V7 chord in a...

You might want to chat with Joel Eckhaus at Earnest Instruments - he knows a lot about the care & feeding of these things.

bet many of you have seen the Pablo Casals quote - when asked, at the age of 90, why he's still practicing 6 hrs. a day, sez: - Well, I think I'm getting somewhere -
Our goals might keep...

The music he was a part of was a revelation to me. MMQ - Great player, generous musician. So sorry to hear of this.

Please keep us apprised of your progress - seems very cool.

Yes, sorry . . . I did not mean to disrespect any poster on the thread. I guess I've just always had a feeling that 'theory' is a great tool to communicate ideas and help us understand musical...