PIZZARELLI BUCKY, THE ROMANCE OF THE CHORDAL GUITAR SOUND. CD TABLATURE
Product Description
Bucky Pizzarelli is a giant on today's jazz guitar scene. He has played with virtually every big name in the business. Along the way, he has been a staff musician with NBC, ABC, Skitch Henderson, and Doc Severinsen, has appeared at Carnegie Hall with George Barnes and Les Paul, has performed at the Boston Pops with Stephane Grappelli, and has played a solo concert at Town Hall in New York city. He has countless albums and jazz tours to his credit. In this fine new text, Bucky presents five original solos written specifically to explore the chordal jazz sound unique to the guitar. In notation and tablature. The accompanying CD has 8 samples and 5 original guitar solos as written and played by one of the world's jazz greats, Bucky Pizzarelli.
Foreword
At the same time Andres Segovia was elevating the classical guitar to its proper place, another guitar with metal trings was becoming the "new" instrument in the orchestra, replacing the banjo. Strummed with a pick, the arch-top plectrum guitar made a beautifully subtle, woody acoustic sound. The best of these handcrafted instruments were made by the Gibson and Epiphone Companies and John D' Angelico, a private custom maker. The best players were also emerging. Eddie Lang, backing Bing Crosby; duets by Carl Kress and Dick McDonugh; and solos by George Van Eps were also listened to. These first pioneers were soon to be followed by the likes of Charlie Christian, George Barnes, Les Paul, Johnny Smith, Tony Mottola, etc.
With the advent of the amplifier, favorite guitarists were put into single-string and chordal-style categories and became specialists in one or both fields. Aspiring guitarists were gathering chord formations and single-note runs from every possible means, usually radio, records, teachers, and each other. Published guitar music was not available to all. This guitar was being played chord ally by non-reading guitarists. The hidden beauty of the guitar was being discovered. Opened-string bass notes and chord clusters made the guitar an ideal instrument to accompany another guitar, singer, or any instrument of the orchestra. The guitar range made it possible to duplicate a string quartet. Through the years great melodies have remained the same, only to be harmonized and reharmonized. My quest to find what is inside the guitar has never ended. So give me the harmony to play in a duet setting anytime. There is so much to be explored and discovered. Bucky Pizzarelli
Note
As you work with this exciting material, it would be well to keep a few points in mind. The skeleton chord forms employed will not always contain all of the essential (in contrast to the expendable) ingredients of the chord indicated. These missing notes will usually be present in the melody that follows so that the chord is outlined in the mind's ear. Occasionally this will not be true, but the chord will be a part of a progression where the missing part of the chord is easily imagined. An example of this is the Db dim in the first bar of "I Had Picked You" where the diminished triad is incomplete. When playing a chord, the bass note can usually be held longer than indicated while the other fingers are making the melody. This gives a richer sound and provides a stable anchor for the left hand. Finally, there are places where there are redundant accidentals in the same measure. These are for clarity and do not indicate double sharps or flats. The Publisher
About the Author
John "Bucky" Pizzarelli has enjoyed a career that spans the years from the Vaughn Monroe Orchestra to White House Concerts with Benny Goodman and Frank Sinatra. Along the way, he has been a staff musician with NBC, ABC, Skitch Henderson, Doc Severinson, Mitch Miller, and appeared at Carnegie Hall with George Barnes and Les Paul, performed at the Boston Pops in duet with Stephane Grappelli, and played a solo concert at Town Hall in New York City. An active performer in jazz rooms and college concerts, he is also a Faculty Member Emeritus of William Paterson College in Wayne, in the New Jersey.
Contents
Foreword .
Constructing a Chord Solo .
Smoke Eyes .
Red Beans and Rice .
Over and Over Blues .
Happy Bass Note Waltz .
I Had Picked You .
About the Author .
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