Jim Hall - Exploring Jazz Guitar Jim Hall
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corp

Mar 29, 2007 - 15 Questions to Jim Mcauley. May 25, 2013 - An in-depth study of Jim's unique. Oct 11, 2011 - Visit GuitarInternational.com to read our interview with jazz great Jim Hall, who talks about playing with Ron Carter, Bill Frisell, Joey Baron and many more of the jazz world's best. To entice you, today's SOTD is the first thing you hear when you start up the movie. I used a slight tremolo effect on the recording to add some interest. Marcos: I was checking your book Exploring Jazz Guitar, and I found it very interesting that in your tunes and in the clinic I attended a few weeks ago, you would divide the tunes into a pitch class collection of intervals like a composer analyzing music, and you would use it to improvise. We are not talking about the fact that he used to play in rockbands before - others have I would reverse that definition, namely, “jazz is all of it,” meaning that it encompasses many of the supposed dichotomies of music: cerebral/visceral, tonal/atonal, composed/improvised, concert hall/dance-hall (“serious” vs. Jim is certainly one of the most unusual Jazz guitarists out there. Apr 8, 2014 - Players such as Jim Hall would often use a small hint of vibrato when playing longer rhythms. This trio is a unique and enigmatic part of the jazz canon and explored what they called “blues-based folk jazz,” which was centered on group improvisation and communication of a high level. Maybe he isn't a Jazz musician to most listeners at all anymore. It's an incredible tune called “The Train And The River” from the Jimmy Giuffre 3, with Giuffre on clarinet and tenor, Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone and Jim Hall on guitar.