Mickey Baker, who was an influential guitarist, has died at the age of 87 in France. He has played in many recordings and influenced many younger guitarists. He has also published some widely used instruction books for jazz guitar: Mickey Baker’s Complete Course in Jazz Guitar: Book 1 (Ashley Publications) Mickey Baker’s Complete Course in …
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Anthony Hannagan has posted the following video at Facebook – a film from a concert with Jethro Burns, Don Stiernberg and John Parrot from 1985 at Adler House. This has been filmed by Paul Goelz who shows many more videos from the 80s in his youtube channel: And don’t forget to check out my YouTube …
One year ago the guitarist Bill Frisell has recorded a one hour concert with the NPR. I had written about this in my German blog www.gezupftes.de, but I have just found that I did not make an English version for this blog. Now I have just found a new Tiny Desk Concert with three Beatles …
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia Some years ago I found this recording by accident. This has been recorded right on my birthday Nov. 23, 1955. I have bought the CDs and listened to this great recordings very often since then, especially every year in the days before and after my …