Jazz tones

Somewhere in the "Guitar shop" I have a thread about my white strat. There's a video there. Just can't figure out how to copy it over to here.
Not doing well with this aging thing.

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Mostly because it is an easy amp to carry on the subway. It certainly isn't the tone. A Princeton sounds so much better.

Thought you were going to go there. Yes, a half-stack is not always practical. A DSL40 is a great alternative to the Princeton not "better" but different.
 
"jazz" me here and "jazz" me there :P...

When I think "jazz" guitar, I think about Wes Montgomery, that dude I cannot remember the name of ( a famous great), Pat Martino- and even Larry Coryell! :o

(even though Coryell was more... jazz rock fusion.)...

And then you got guys like Terje Rypdal, that doesn't have a "traditional archtop" tone at all- he plays a strat with loads of distortion and effects...

Bill Frisell?

:/

My "jazz" tone is dark, thick, trying to sound somewhat like a tenor saxophone :). With a good amount of distortion, and so on...

...or clean, quite bright and sparkly. The "standard", dark archtop 012 string sound, often sounds boring to my ears! :o

-Erl
 
That's the thing, jazz really has a lot of tones, and it has for many years, including John McLaughlin's speedy high gain, Allan Holdsworth's sax emulation, and Al Di Meola's LP-through-a-Marshall. To me, jazz isn't really a tone, it is a mindset. Few musicians do a whole set of improvised music these days, but when I see it, I smile.
 
Few musicians do a whole set of improvised music these days, but when I see it, I smile.

When this pandemic is over you really need to come to Boston. You can walk club to club on the weekends and see everything from fusion to jazz to blues to rock. The closer you get to Berklee the more diverse things get. I can take you to Wally's if you bring an axe you can sit in.

http://www.wallyscafe.com/index.html
 
i miss having that scene around here. used to be able to walk down pearl st and there were 10+ clubs all with music of one sort or another.
 
When this pandemic is over you really need to come to Boston. You can walk club to club on the weekends and see everything from fusion to jazz to blues to rock. The closer you get to Berklee the more diverse things get. I can take you to Wally's if you bring an axe you can sit in.

http://www.wallyscafe.com/index.html

My kind of town. My area is full of thrown together classic rock bands (thrown together for the gig, and that's it), and dimestore blues...every bad cliché that brings up.
 
we had plenty of that too but i knew most of em so at least theyd invite me to sit in :D
 
When this pandemic is over you really need to come to Boston. You can walk club to club on the weekends and see everything from fusion to jazz to blues to rock. The closer you get to Berklee the more diverse things get. I can take you to Wally's if you bring an axe you can sit in.

http://www.wallyscafe.com/index.html

Heck, I wish I could come over. I've been hungry for live music and jazz, ever since I finished my year-long jazz school course in 09/10 :/

you lucky man! :D
 
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