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575 Jazz: Young Jonathan Plays Standards


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wow--that's really great...diggin the groove! Great guitar work--looks like the support cast is right there in the pocket and really apprecitaing the moment.

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Very fine playing ... really has that traditional jazz guitar tone and feel down, without sounding like at all like a kid parroting a style --he's made it his own.

You must be both proud and a good teacher. (Or maybe you know when to get out of the way...)

Young drummers, and taste ... I guess it's always a work in progress. I think your son has a more mature sense of time, although obviously the drummer is well-versed and has chops and potential.

Although I learned humility a long time ago when it comes to guitar playing, I'm still glad I only rarely encounter student players of your son's ability. If they were all that good, I'd be out a job.

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Four thoughts:

Very fine playing ... really has that traditional jazz guitar tone and feel down, without sounding like at all like a kid parroting a style --he's made it his own.

You must be both proud and a good teacher. (Or maybe you know when to get out of the way...)

Young drummers, and taste ... I guess it's always a work in progress. I think your son has a more mature sense of time, although obviously the drummer is well-versed and has chops and potential.

Although I learned humility a long time ago when it comes to guitar playing, I'm still glad I only rarely encounter student players of your son's ability. If they were all that good, I'd be out a job.

 

 

Thanks for the kind words. The other musicians are jazz majors here at Eastman who were hired for the session. Jonathan has not studied jazz with me, so I can't take much credit in that department. He has been studying with Bob Sneider, the jazz guitar instructor at Eastman, for many years now. He's also been studying classical at Eastman, but his first love is rock music.

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Jonathon has my admiration! He's begun early. He's literate and already has a terrific vocabulary. He has a deft touch, and he seems to feel what he's doing. Best wishes for him, wherever he wants to take this. (Nice to hear the drummer get behind and under Jonathon on the Van Heusen tune.) Thanks for posting that, John!

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