Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Box set
CD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- St. Louis Tickle- VESS OSSMAN
- Chain Gang Blues- SAM MOORE
- Savoy Blues- JOHNNY ST. CYR and LONNIE JOHNSON
- You're The One For Me- SOL HOOPII
- Add A Little Wiggle- EDDIE LANG
- Clowin' The Frets- EDDIE BUSH
- California Blues- BENNY "KING" NAHAWI
- How'm I Doin' / Dinah- ROY SMECK
- Who's Sorry Now- EDDIE CONDON
- Danzon- CARL KRESS & DICK McDONOUGH
- China Boy- OTTO "COCO" HEIMEL
- Minnehaha- SAM KOKI
- Swingin' On The Strings- INK SPOTS
- Honeysuckle Rose- DJANGO REINHARDT
- Guitar Swing- CASEY BILL WELDON
- Love Me Or Leave Me- EDDIE DURHAM & FREDDIE GREEN
- Whispering- OSCAR ALEMAN
- Pickin' For Patsy- ALLAN REUSS
- Little Rock Getaway- GEORGE BARNES
- Solo
- Flight- CHARLIE CHRISTIAN
- Buck Jumpin'- AL CASEY
- Twin Guitar Special- LEON McAULIFFE & ELDON SHAMBLIN
- I'm Walkin' This Town- TEDDY BUNN
- Palm Springs Jump- SLIM GAILLARD
- Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You- OSCAR MOORE
- Red Cross- TINY GRIMES
- Ol' Man Rebop- BILL DE ARANGO
- On Green Dolphin Street- BARNEY KESSEL
- What Is This Thing Called Love- GEORGE VAN EPS
- Body And Soul- JIMMY RANEY
- My Baby Just Cares For Me- CHUCK WAYNE
- Runnin' Wild- LES PAUL
- Mountain Melody- CHET ATKINS
- Yardbird Suite- TAL FARLOW
- The Boy Next Door- JOHNNY SMITH
- Tocata- LAURINDO ALMEIDA
- I've Got You Under My Skin- JIM HALL
- Aguas De Marco [Waters Of March]- JOAO GILBERTO
- Bluesette- TOOTS THIELEMANS
- Midnight Blue- KENNY BURRELL
- Unit 7- WES MONTGOMERY
- Naptown Blues- HERB ELLIS
- Move- HANK GARLAND
- Easy Living- HOWARD ROBERTS
- Jean de Fleur- GRANT GREEN
- Night And Day- JOE PASS
- Clockwise- GEORGE BENSON
- Just Friends- PAT MARTINO
- A Taste Of Honey- LENNY BREAU
- How Insensitive- CHARLIE BYRD
- Gypsy Queen- GABOR SZABO
- June 15, 1967- LARRY CORYELL
- As We Used To Sing- SONNY SHARROCK
- Should Be Reversed- DEREK BAILEY
- Manic Depression- JIMI HENDRIX
- Birds Of Fire- JOHN McLAUGHLIN
- Coral- MICK GOODRICK
- Ralph's Piano Waltz- JOHN ABERCROMBIE
- The Prowler- RALPH TOWNER
- Bright Size Life- PAT METHENY
- Aqui, Oh- TONINHO HORTA
- Midnight In San Juan- EARL KLUGH
- Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)- CARLOS SANTANA
- Inner City Blues- PHIL UPCHURCH
- Thumper- ERIC GALE
- Spiral- LARRY CARLTON
- Captain Fingers- LEE RITENOUR
- Mr. Spock- ALLAN HOLDSWORTH
- Race With The Devil On Spanish Highway- AL DIMEOLA
- Cause We've Ended As Lovers- JEFF BECK
- Church- JAMES BLOOD ULMER
- Ron Carter- BILL FRISELL
- Hottentot- JOHN SCOFIELD
- Postizo- MARC RIBOT
- Fat Time- MIKE STERN
Music reviews of Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar
Music Review: 95 Years of Country, Rock, Fusion, But Mostly Jazz Guitar
Rating: 4 Stars
In listening to the first selections on the Disc 1, I started to ask myself, "What's jazz?" Well, to paraphrase Justice Potter Stewart, I know it when I hear it. And there are several selections in this anthology that I just can't call jazz. Good selections. Historically significant selections. Selections with hot guitar playing. But not jazz.
I am an amateur jazz guitarist, but certainly not the most scholarly or knowledgable about the history of jazz guitar. But I know that by any stretch, banjo music from 1906 is not jazz guitar. I also know that Jimi Hendrix playing Manic Depression is not jazz guitar. Jimi was the greatest, but his fame was basically inventing modern rock guitar. His most obvious influences were blues. There may have been some jazz influence, but it isn't evident in this selection. Similarly, I am still trying to figure out why Chet Atkins and Carlos Santana are here. These guys are the greatest, but they're not jazz. Another tune sounds like early aimless experimental overfuzzed guitar (also non-jazz) music--and I was shocked to check the notes and find out it was recorded in the late 90's.
After I pondered the "what is jazz" question, I tried to figure out what the producers were trying to do with this collection. I didn't necessarily expect the best known selections from each guitarist; I think a "best of the best" would be tiresome. But I couldn't identify any other theme holding this thing together. Illustrate the progression of jazz guitar? Well, the selections are not always chronological--a Barney Kessel recording from 1957 is followed five tunes later by Chet Atkins in 1951. A selection by Derek Baily from 1996 is followed by the Hendrix tune from 1966. There seems to be no particular pattern or grouping. Is it about a collection of the most influential jazz guitarists and their recordings? Well, I must admit I never knew that Toots Thielemans even played guitar until now. The recording of him doubling himself on whistling Bluesette is deftly played but lightweight and more of a novelty than an influence. There are many great guitarists represented, but in many cases I am baffled by the selections. Solo Flight by Charlie Christian is undeniably a seminal piece. Unit 7 is my personal favorite recording by Wes Montgomery. How Insensitive was one of Charlie Byrd's favorites; I heard him play it in Annapolis many years ago. On the other hand, Just Friends by Pat Martino is a great take, although is earlier work that doesn't truly represent how his style eventually evolved and how most people think of him today. I can think of any number of George Benson tunes I would have preferred (but thank you, oh thank you, for not using Breezin').
And why does this collection stop in 2001 with a recording by Bill Frisell? Did jazz guitar stop evolving five years ago?
On the plus side there are many artists I was not familiar with that are/were great players and I'm happy to get a taste so I can go explore further. Jimmy Raney and Hank Garland are not in my current collection but their recordings here make me want more. My favorite run on the collection is the last six or seven songs on Disc 2 (see Amazon's list for songs), which I play over and over and over, except it must be in the car as I drive to work because my wife doesn't have quite the same appreciation as me.
After listening to the entire set of 4 discs about 6 times, I have zoomed in on about a third of the songs that I really enjoy listening to, a third that are fine for historical significance but don't really do it for me, and a third that I just don't need to hear again.
The collection is well worth the price, and the included booklet (it's not just a pamphlet, it's really a small book) with notes about all the artists is a keeper all by itself.
I have posted a more detailed review of individual songs on my web site at [...].
Description of Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar
Seventy-eight guitar classics are put together in 100 YEARS OF JAZZ GUITAR, a remarkable 4-CD anthology that yields the absolutely definitive jazz guitar collection ever assembled. The set spans the years 1906 to 2001, from the ragtime banjo of Vess Ossman (originally recorded on an Edison cylinder) to the diaphonous chords of Bill Frisell. In between, virtually every major figure of the jazz guitar weighs in, from Eddie Lang, Django Reinhardt, and Charlie Christian to Les Paul, Tal Farlow, and Wes Montgomery, and right up to Jim Hall, Grant Green, George Benson, Pat Martino, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, and John Scofield as well as Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, and the great Jimi Hendrix.
In addition, the box also contains a book filled with photographs of each of the principles heard herein, an overview essay by guitar scholar Charles Alexander, old guitar ads, photos of classic guitar models and amps, solo transcriptions and technical analysis, testimonials from guitar legends, and precise discographical data. Clearly, 100 YEARS OF JAZZ GUITAR is the set to get if one is even remotely interested in the history and development of guitar over the course of the past century.
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