Today's #JazzAndRockOdyssey
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Mickey "Guitar" Baker - Guitarambo, 1956
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJTgwPCTTE0
@Bix as a kid I had guitar instructional books from Mickey Baker, Mel Bay, and Harvey Vinson. In the pre-internet era my brief “why should I care about this author” went unanswered.
@CanisPundit
Cool, I only had they Mel Bay books.
Discogs:
Writer of "The Complete Course in Jazz Guitar" self-tuition series, his books are a mainstay for introducing students of guitar to the world of jazz and have remained in print for over fifty years
@Bix https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KXvPO99swAA
When I was maybe 15 I had a few guitar lessons from a Music Major Jazz guitarist. I got a Mickey Baker Jazz book from him. I learned the chords, but couldn’t get into the standard notation leads. Maybe if he (teacher) made them relevant to me like, for example, Allman’s In Memory … and point out the Diminished 7th run, or the most of the leads were in A Dorian. Instead he taught me a Jazz arrangement of “If I Fell” in the wrong key.
https://www.scribd.com/document/715708606/Mickey-Baker-s-Jazz-Guitar-Revised
@Bix @InUnfunky there’s something to the origami, but I learned them. Nothing like a well placed passing Demented chord.
Here’s that rainy day er um I mean Bell/Pickow book. Very used, very ‘90s aesthetic. Note the then probably uncool Steve Vai blurb. 😆
@Bix @CanisPundit
Lolz tell the Guv he can’t borrow my Oliver Nelson. He can get his own. 🤓