We were talking about Jack Wilkins on today's call. Here is a performance from Birdland of Frank Vignola, Jack Wilkins and Jimmy Bruno. Enjoy. Frank does a show every Wednesday at Birdland and it is always streamed. https://youtu.be/KpEaHDYm3nI?list=RDKpEaHDYm3nI

I just got this on my news feed - a 1959 TV pilot for a jazz show "After Hours" with Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge - plus Barry Galbraith on guitar. On the opening blues tune, Barry is playing something similar to "Blues in F" from our comping studies - it was a fun watch! I thought others in JGA might like it! Below is the article describing the show, and at the bottom a YouTube video of the pilot. Pretty cool! https://jazzfuel.com/coleman-hawkins-tv-series/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC6zz0ObNuU

Please give a warm Jazz Guitar Accelerator welcome to @Philip Halton , from Springfield, MA!

Finally! I worked on this Etude for months! It took me a long time to play along with Marc, and then wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do to 'make it my own'. Since I'm so chord oriented, I add chords in a couple of places. Still not perfect, but I figured it was time to post.

A few weeks ago I attended the CAAS. Great time! Music from about 9 am to around 11:30 every night. And for most of the day, that's multiple rooms going with different players doing short shows, workshops, discussions of music, etc. The common theme was guitars. But beyond that, there was a huge variety...some traditional Chet/ Jerry Reed kinda stuff, others following more of a Tommy Emmanuel approach, while others were straight ahead jazzers. Tommy was there for 3 of the 4 days, other players included John Knowles, Doyle Dykes, Gareth Pearson, Rich Severson, Bruce Foreman, Eddie Estes, Bryce Mullins, Richard Kiser, Guy Van Duser, Taylor Roberts (7-string extraodinaire), Walter Rodrigues Jr, Robert Anderson, Jim Nichols...and way too many others to mention. A couple of the young players doing traditional Chet style playing were Isaac Biver and Sean Weaver. The amount of talent there was astonishing, and yet, such nice folks. No egos. Gretsch, Maton, Wallace and Prismatone pickups had booths there, and Fred Gretsch is still a presence at the meeting. Every morning started with an open mic session on the big stage in the main auditorium. The first day I played "A Man and a Woman" from Chet's "Goes to the Movies" album (which was arranged by John Knowles). When I got off the stage, John McClellan came up to me and said if I'd play the same song the next day he'd do a "Paul Yandell" backup part. So we did (video below). My nerves were standing in the way of smooth eights, but still, what an experience! McClellan is a traditional classical player who took an interest in Chet and his music, and ultimately hung around with Chet and authored a few books about him. McClellan has taken Isaac Biver under his wing and is helping him gain traction in the business. I'm playing my Taylor 314 nylon in this clip. https://youtu.be/GnPfUxlGiQw?si=wrag4BG-0fUeQQ2K