Carlo Aonzo Trio playing BG

[crisscross]

Bluegrass on a bowlback and an electric archtop guitar but without a banjo?
Just discovered this video, was fascinated by the way Aonzo holds his bowlback without any strap and even manages to play some lightning fast tunes...

[Charles E.]

Well Carlo is a tall skinny fellow, helps to tuck that tater bug away. I thought his playing on the common fiddle tunes was ok.

[jesserules]

The guitar was tending to drown out the mandolin I thought, but as best as I could tell CA was getting a pretty decent chop out of that bowlback.

Interesting, because there are a lot of people on a forum not a million miles from here who say you need a different mandolin for each of bluegrass, old time, "Celtic", choro, jazz ...

[Jim Garber]

Carlo plays much of his repertoire including (now) jazz, classical and even Jethro Burns tunes standing and strapless.

[Bill McCall]

When I’ve seen him play BG, the notes explode off his mandolin. So quick, so clean, so smooth.

The fact he looks like Leon Redbone is another plus.

[DavidKOS]

A good mandolinist is a good mandolinist - and Carlos is GREAT.

[DavidKOS]

The guitar was tending to drown out the mandolin I thought, but as best as I could tell CA was getting a pretty decent chop out of that bowlback.

Interesting, because there are a lot of people on a forum not a million miles from here who say you need a different mandolin for each of bluegrass, old time, "Celtic", choro, jazz ...

Or there are those of us that will use Italian style instruments for everything.