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• michaelb New

  March 2019 edited March 2019 Posts: 3

  
  “Nobody gives a $%#* if you can solo”
  
  as told to me by Tonk Edwards one of the greatest jazz guitarists I’ve ever known. Tonk played with Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McRae (as well as with Bill Evans, Chet, etc) for years. Beautiful player (soloist included) and person. It was a tongue in cheek way of saying never forget that the role of a guitarist is to comp and hold down the rhythm. I’ve never forgotten it and am reminded often to keep up my rhythm chops and chording practice. We all want to be great soloists, but don’t spend enough practice time comping to make other soloist sound good.

  
• AndyW Glasgow Scotland UK✭✭✭ Clarinets & Saxes- Selmer, Conn, Buescher, Leblanc et.al. // Guitars: Gerome, Caponnetto, Napoli, Musicalia, Bucolo, Sanchez et. al.

  March 2019 Posts: 600

  Me? LoL - the only advice *I* can give is "the more you learn, the less you know" :-)

  
• Lango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator

  March 2019 edited March 2019 Posts: 1,855

  I like all these thoughts.
  
  Just playing the melody with occasional cool variations is real nice.
  
  I’ve given up on trying to out-django Django... ain’t gonna happen!

  

  Paul Cezanne: "I could paint for a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
  
  Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
  
  Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
  
• crookedpinky Glasgow✭✭✭✭ Alex Bishop D Hole, Altamira M & JWC D hole

  March 2019 Posts: 921

  Lango Djabgo - I can't even django Django never mind out-django him.

  

  always learning
• Jim Kaznosky Prodigy Bumgarner Derecho;AJL XO

  April 2019 Posts: 1,231

  "Play the song" - every non-GJ jazz musician.
• vanmalmsteen Diamond Springs ,CANew Latch Drom F, Eastman DM2v, Altamira m30d , Altimira Mod M

  April 2019 Posts: 337

  “Free bird”
• NylonDave Glasgow✭✭✭ Perez Valbuena Flamenca 1991

  April 2019 Posts: 462

  Strange you should disavow the most helpful thing I ever heard you say Andy. But yes donkeys do indeed live a long time.
  
  D.
• downstrokebaby New

  April 2019 Posts: 6

  Not sure to understand what this conversation is about
• AndyW Glasgow Scotland UK✭✭✭ Clarinets & Saxes- Selmer, Conn, Buescher, Leblanc et.al. // Guitars: Gerome, Caponnetto, Napoli, Musicalia, Bucolo, Sanchez et. al.

  April 2019 Posts: 600

  downstrokebaby wrote: »

  Not sure to understand what this conversation is about

  
  Me neither, and he's talking about me...