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Huddersfield Jazz Guitar Society
Newsletter No. 47 July 2015
Contents
Page
1. Meeting Summary ... 2
2. Members News ... 6
3. Swap an Idea ...... 11
4. Membership ........... 12
5. Gig List ...... 14
6. Reviews ....... 16
7. Of Interest ..... 17
8. Tuition ... 18
9. Sales/Wants/Trades ..... 19
10. Charts .... 25
11. The lighter side of music...... 26
12. Services.... 27
Celebrating the art and craft of jazz guitar
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1. Meeting Summary
Hi Jazz Guitar Fans,
It was a dark and stormy night. The wind tore round the rooftops
and rain lashed down the
uncharitable may have remarked that it was a typical June
evening in Huddersfield. But safely tucked
away in the upper room of the Rat and Ratchet, the jazz guitar
club members enjoyed an evening of
quietly serene playing. With the odd upbeat exception, we were
treated to some beautifully reflective,
gently swinging jazz as the gathering wove a cocoon of
protectively warm music against the raging
elements outside.
I blame Tom Prior as, unconventionally, he kicked
proceedings off in lyrically ruminative style. Tom enjoys
experimenting with new ideas and, in this case, a
beautifully
meandering introductory passage gradually revealed itself
as a haunting treatment of the Beatles and Billy J. Kramer
classic Do You Want To Know A Secret? Admittedly,
Toms follow-up piece, with Charles on bass, was a feisty,
good-humoured Sweet Sue, swinging away, with Toms
wonderful mastery of punched chords, strong bass lines and
fast single string work, but the overall tone of the evening
had been set.
Calm was restored as Dave got up to play a version of Misty that
used
an attractive range of extended chords with tasteful
embellishments.
The performance was carefully prepared with some lovely ideas.
He
was joined by Darren and Charles for a relaxed bossa treatment
of
Gentle Rain. Darren introduced the melody to some tasteful
accompaniment and both guitarists took similar fast run solos
with a
distinctive South American flavour reminiscent of Charlie Byrd.
The
piece moved in stately fashion to a dream-like close.
The well-established duo of
Dave and Chris preserved the
peaceful atmosphere with their first offering, Dream A
Little
Dream Of Me. Introduced to a gently pulsing off-beat rhythm,
Dave respectfully stated the melody in the lower register,
followed by two very pleasant solos in which telling use was
made of bass-line accompaniment. The horses were slightly
frightened by their second offering, Sam Joness quirky Unit
7. Played in a funky, bluesy style, the unusual harmonic
changes seemed to push both guitarists through powerful
solos, backed again with energetic chords and bass string work.
For me, perhaps the most
interesting choice of the evening.
In the hands of Jez, Martin and Ben on bass, Out
Of Nowhere became a gentle bossa. It was
fascinating to hear this classic standard from our
two youthfully eclectic stars. Throughout the solos
Martins full of smooth chromatic runs, Jez sparse
and inventive they both paid careful respect to the
target notes to signal each change which served to
recognise the simple strength of the songs harmonic structure.
God Bless The Child was
taken at a suitably slow tempo, Jez introducing with
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pared-back phrasing followed by a shouting blues solo. Martin
came in on the bridge in more
romantic mood, as befitted his imminent new status as
bridegroom. It was a stunningly successful
performance.
After the interval, The Idle Guits defied the elements
outside with a laid-back Summertime and a new-to-
their pad version of Aint Misbehavin, both pieces
beautifully arranged by Phil.
Our resident
troubadour Steve
got up to give us a calypso by Morgan Heritage, Down By The
River, a lilting piece that encouraged the mind to wander to
sunlit
beaches.
The vocal interlude was extended by a very welcome newcomer
to
the gathering, Carol who, accompanied delightfully by Darren
and
Ian, lulled us skilfully with versions of The Look Of Love and
The
Nearness Of You. Carol has a rich singing voice with a fine
sense of pitch and timing and a lovely
sense of when to use vibrato. Darren introduced the first song
and soloed in lyrical style, while Ian
reciprocated on the second, producing a beautifully sweet sound
from his new 7-string Godin. A
great acquisition, I would say!
Adrian finished the evening off with another newcomer, Kevin
Deardon,
playing an electric bass that had too many strings to count.
They
happily ignored the languorous script of the evening with a
couple of
briskly exciting numbers. The Parker classic, My Little Suede
Shoes,
bounced along to a calypso rhythm, with Adrian producing a
storming
solo which made frequent used of half-stopped notes, and
Kevin
showing the full range of effects that his bass allowed.
Finally, Ill
Remember April, taken at a nice fast tempo, had Adrian in
full,
masterful flow, with Kevin providing a clear, strong bass line
that at
times echoed the guitar phrasing.
And so, off into the Huddersfield rain.
Jazz Guitar Festival News
Tickets for the main concerts can be ordered/reserved in advance
by contacting
us at [email protected] (subject: tickets) and they will
put on one side for
collection at the event. Those of you who have ordered and paid
for tickets, these are
also ready for collection at the event.
Workshops are paid for at the workshop itself.
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The program is now finalised and looks like this: -
Saturday 11th
6:00 7:00 Jam session
Concert 10 8:00 Jade Harris Band (HJGS members 8) 9:30 Nigel
Price
Performances
Time Bar Area Beer Garden
12:00 Dave Vangelderen & Chris Brown (Weather
Permitting)
1:00 Sam Dunn Dave Vangelderen & Chris Brown
2:00 Darren Dutson Bromley Sam Dunn
3:00 Trefor Owen Jade Harris Band
4:00 Ian Wroe, Paul Kean, Carol Brown Trefor Owen
5:00 Remi Harris Ian Wroe, Paul Kean, Carol Brown
Workshops
Time Given By Subject Fee
12:00 Darren Dutson
Bromley
From Blues to Jazz 1 embellish your playing using techniques
Illustrated by the styles of
Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass and Barney Kessel 5
1:00 Trefor Owen Effective accompaniment and the Maj 7th
as a soloing tool 5
2:00 Brian Eastwood General guitar maintenance - how to get
the best out of your instrument 5
3:00 Remi Harris
Gypsy Jazz Guitar Techniques - effective picking and fingering
methods as well as
harmonic and rhythmic concepts.
Efficient Practice and Study Methods for
All Styles - how to get the best results from
your practice time.
5
4:00 Nigel Price Getting to know the fretboard - utilising your
ideas to make new sounds and phrases.
5
5:00 Sam Dunn
Melodic bebop language and phrasing. Learn how to incorporate
and adapt jazz lines
from the masters into your own playing, to
create your own melodic vocabulary.
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Sunday 12th
6:00 7:00 Jam session
Concert 10 8:00 Remi Harris
(HJGS members 8) 9:30 John Etheridge
Performances
Time Bar Area Beer Garden
1:00 Remi Harris (Weather Permitting)
2:00 Trefor Owen Remi Harris
3:00 Adrian Ingram, Jez Platt, Ben Crosland
Surprise guest slot
4:00 Neil C Young Adrian Ingram & Darren Dutson Bromley
5:00 Sam Dunn Dave Vangelderen & Chris Brown
Workshops
Time Given By Subject Fee
1:00 Sam Dunn
Melodic Bebop Language and Phrasing. Learn how to incorporate
and adapt jazz lines
from the masters into your own playing, to
create your own melodic vocabulary.
5
2:00 Adrian Ingram Wes Montgomerys Trick Bag. Use of
inversions, 7b9s and universal tonal centres. 5
3:00 Remi Harris
Gypsy Jazz Guitar Techniques - effective picking and fingering
methods as well as
harmonic and rhythmic concepts.
Efficient Practice and Study Methods for
All Styles - how to get the best results from your practice
time.
5
4:00 John Etheridge Tips and reminiscences sharing a
lifetimes
experiences. 5
5:00 Al Morrison From Blues to Jazz 2 embellish your playing
using techniques illustrated by the styles of
Grant Green, Robben Ford and Larry Carlton 5
6:00 Trefor Owen Effective accompaniment and the Maj 7th
as a soloing tool 5
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Here also is a preview of the great raffle prizes to be won over
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Signed copy of The Gibson Super 400 by Dr Tom Van Hoose
Star Prize (Donated by Tom James)
One set of Bulldog pickups hand-wound to your spec.
OR
One year subscription to Just Jazz Guitar magazine
OR
OR
Mikes Master Class of your choice
OR
Tickets 5
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2. Members News
Congratulations to HJGS Committee member Martin Chung who is
getting married on June 6th. Hannah has finally decided to make an
honest
man of him.
Call for Membership Participation
We have had a few successful, I believe,
examinations/investigations of members favourite tunes. If you feel
you could do a similar job please let me know.
Send an email to [email protected] or chat to any of the
committee at the
next meeting.
Remember the HJGS exists for the benefit(s) of its members, so
we need to hear from YOU: good, bad, indifferent, news, views,
gossip, ideas, viewpoints, gigs,
sales wants, swaps etc, etc!
Please keep us informed of any jazz guitar related gigs, events,
sales or other
item of interest, so that we can pass information on to other
members. HJGS needs
to develop its wider network as an important forum for jazz
guitar related information
and information exchange, so that we may all benefit from the
collective wisdom and
uncoordinated information that undoubtedly exists amongst fans
and connoisseurs.
The 10 most popular jazz guitars of all time
Adrian Ingram
Number 7: The Stromberg Master 400
Benedetto, Buscarino, Campellone, Comins, Grimes,
Megas, Monteleone, Triggs are but a tiny handful of
names of brilliant archtop luthiers which have sprung
up since the 1980s. It is not unusual any more to find
top jazz guitarists playing more obscure none
company branded, bespoke archtops. There was
even a period, between 1989 and 2001, when for
example Bob Benedettos fine archtops were more
visible amongst top players than ubiquitous Gibsons!
Howard Alden, Jimmy Bruno, Ron Eschete, Adrian
Ingram, Bucky Pizzarelli, Martin Taylor, Frank Vignola,
Jack Wilkins and, more recently, Clint Strong, Kenny
Burrell and Pat Martino have all been closely
associated with Bobs guitars.
Back in the 1930s, 40s, 50s and early 60s it was a
different matter. Gibson, Epiphone and, to a lesser
extent, Gretsch ruled the roost and it was exceptional, rare and
exotic, to find a top player
with an unknown make. Yes, there were a relatively small number
of archtop luthiers out
1954 Master 400
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there, but they were rather obscure, their reputations resting
primarily on word of mouth
and artists association. Abanus, Barker and Koontz made
exceptional guitars, but you rarely
saw them.
The king of bespoke, high quality, archtops was most definitely
John DAngelico and later his gifted apprentice, and successor, John
DAquisto. Their instruments were, perhaps
circumstantially, rather than specifically, promoted by the
likes of Johnny Smith, Mundell
Lowe, Lou Mecca, Chuck Wayne et al. But, there was another, if
less visible, luthier favoured
by the good and the great, players with as varied styles as
Freddie Green and Hank Garland; a
luthier whose instruments have become more collectable and
sought after than even the afore mentioned two Johns. His
name,
as you may have already guessed, was: Charles Stromberg, who
together with his son, Elmer, produced less than 700
instruments
in their working lifetime. They began building guitars in the
1930s,
prior to which they had built banjos and even a few drum
kits!
Their first guitars were well made and well received;
despite
having laminated backs and sides coupled with pressed (as
opposed to carved) tops, they sounded surprisingly good. In
fact
they were placed on a par with early Epiphones, Gibsons and
DAngelicos, rather than being associated with Harmony, Kay,
Vega
and other low-budget ranges featuring pressed/laminated
timbers.
By the early 40s Strombergs guitars, being now the mainstay of
their business, underwent several radical modifications and
upgrades. The woods were now specially selected fine quality tone
woods, hand carved to perfection. The f holes changed from the
fashionable, pre-war 3-piece segmented variety to the one-piece
elegantly flowing style more generally encountered on quality bowed
instruments. And, perhaps most radical, the parallel lengthwise top
braces were superseded by one long diagonal top brace. Stromberg
also introduced an adjustable truss-rod which, unusually, was
accessed by removing the detachable bone nut!
Top of the range was the most popular (and now the most
collectable) Master 400. With its massive 19 lower bout it is
hardly surprising that acoustic rhythm players were attracted to
it. Dance band players in particular favoured the Master 400 and
jazz guitar rhythm player extraordinaire Freddie Green used this
model for decades in the Count Basie Orchestra.
Like other archtop luthiers, however, all Strombergs were random
one-offs and it is possible to find carved-top instruments with
laminated backs and the occasional use of parallel braces! They
even produced a handful of cutaway Master 400s, two such examples
were used by Irving Ashby and Hank Garland respectively.
Sadly, both Charles and Elmer died in 1955, within a few months
of each other, just as the guitar was gaining a previously
unprecedented popularity. It has long been argued that the
construction of Strombergs was a little rough and ready, with
varying glue lines, chisel marks and inconsistent uniformity of
bindings and sloppy cosmetics. Compared to the almost clinical
attention to detail by most of todays luthiers, this is quite true.
However, the sound of a Stromberg Master 400 being driven hard by a
good chord player is a miracle to
1950 Headstock
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behold!! The Stromberg archtop guitar, as a purely acoustic
instrument, has seldom been equalled but sadly that role in jazz is
now almost obsolete.
Check out any of Irving Ashbys fine recordings with Nat King
Cole, as well as his great playing on the CD Swing to Bop Guitar
(Hep CD 66), which features him in a great guitar group which also
included Barney Kessel, Arv Garrison and Les Paul! Ashbys sole LP
under his own name: Memoirs (Accent AGS 5091 LP) is also worth
seeking out as is his video footage playing Bobby Troups Route 66
with the Nat King Cole Trio.
There is also some wonderful footage of Hank Garland playing his
cutaway Stromberg Master 400, on the Eddy Arnold show, but you will
have to hunt for it on YouTube .
Another great chord stylist and Stromberg player was Barry
Galbraith who, like Hank Garland, also later became closely
associated with the Gibson Byrdland (in the early 60s). Garland
took ma few lessons from Galbraith and they would most certainly
have swapped notes on their favourite guitars.
Almost all of Freddie Greens work with Basie in the 40s 50s and
early 60s featured a Stromberg Master 400 and, in this instance,
doing what it was designed to do i.e. punch out a crisp, full,
audible driving rhythm without amplification!
Recommended Listening
Irving Ashby
Swing to Bop Guitar Guitars in Flight 1939 1947
Hep CD 66
Memoirs
Accent AGS 5091
1940 Freddie Green Master 400
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ADDENDUM
Number 6: The Epiphone Emperor/Deluxe
Maurice Summerfield kindly sent me the pictures below of the
great UK guitar pioneer
Ivor Mairants. Ivor was long associated with the Epiphone
Emperor, which dwarfed him
somewhat, but always exuded class and provided much needed
gravitas for the pick
(plectrum in those days) guitar, at a time when skiffle and rock
and roll were dumbing down
the instruments true potential.
Ivor was in my mind when I wrote the article, and it was remiss
of me not to include
him, so thank you Maurice. Also we noted, in a recent email
exchange, that Ike Isaacs and
Albert Harris both played Epiphones in their early careers and
that they too should be
mentioned. Ivors picture on the left may bring back memories for
many as it resembles the
one used on the cover of: Ivor Mairants book of Daily Exercises
(Francis Day & Hunter). A lot
of us sweated blood over that book!!
The Unforgettable Nat King Cole,
Passport Video DVD 1537
Barry Galbraith Guitar and the Wind
Decca 9200 LP
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As a follow on to this series of articles, how about you telling
us about your favourite
guitar. How did you come by it? Why did you get it? What makes
it your favourite?
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3. Swap an Idea
This column appears to be popular so we will keep it for the
time being. But, and this is an important but we do NEED YOUR
CONTRIBUTIONS for this to be
successful. Contributions please to
[email protected].
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4. Membership
Some memberships are now falling due for renewal, remember
membership
lasts for a full 12 months from the paid up month and the
following benefits are
only available to current paid up members.
The following deals have been negotiated for members on
production of a current
membership card: -
Bulldog Pickups (Huddersfield) www.bulldogpickups.com
15% off all pickups and repairs/rewinds.
ElectroMusic (Doncaster) www.electromusic.co.uk
Variable discount depending on the item(s) purchased.
GTR (Huddersfield) www.gtrguitars.co.uk
10% discount on strings and accessories.
The Music Room (Cleckheaton) www.the-music-room.com
Variable discount depending on the item(s) purchased.
Matt Ryan www.guitarrepairer.com
10% off guitar repairs/setups
AmplifierCoversOnline.com www.amplifiercoversonline.com
Customised Equipment Covers On Demand
Frailers www.frailers.com
Variable discount depending on the item(s) purchased.
Foulds Guitars - Derby www.fouldsmusic.co.uk
Variable discount depending on the item(s) purchased.
The Amp Shack Contact Andrew Lazdins
Valve/Solid-State amp and Effect pedal repairs. Discount
available. Phone: +44 (0) 7716 460 163
Email: [email protected]
MicroVox www.westf.demon.co.uk
Acoustic instrument mics. 10% discount Phone: +44 (0) 1924
361550
Email: [email protected]
Mac Amplification www.mac-amps.com
Amplifier + Pedal repairs Phone: 07716 860676
Email: [email protected]
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Mundo Music Gear www.mundomusicgear.co.uk
An ergonometric revolution for guitarists
We are actively pursuing other supplier/retailers and will let
you know as soon as we
confirm them. Remember also that we welcome your suggestions re
the future
direction of HJGS. Please get in touch.
Committee
Martin Chung
Publicity, joint treasurer, website/facebook and development
Darren Dutson Bromley
Ensembles, education, website/facebook and development
Adrian Ingram
Newsletter, education, international liaison and development
Ian Wroe
Host, joint treasurer, artiste relations, events and
development
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Meetings
The first Tuesday of the month at The Rat & Ratchet,
Huddersfield (see
http://www.ossett-brewery.co.uk/Pubs/HuddersfieldDistrict/tabid/1612/Default.aspx)
Remember the society needs YOUR views and input so, if you want
to provide
a short introduction/discourse for a tune yourself or make any
suggestions for a tune,
please speak to a committee member. We have already had some
other interesting
ideas put forward which we are looking into. YOUR ideas are both
vital and welcome.
It is YOUR society and the committee is there entirely on YOUR
behalf. Please,
please get involved if you can!
2015 meetings Details may change
Jul 7th - Players Night
Jul 11th/12th - A Summer Festival of Jazz Guitar
Aug 4th - Theme Night
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Sep 1st - Players + Workshop (Jon Taylor-The Guitarist as
accompanist, what
the soloist would like to hear)
Oct 6th - Guest Night (TBC)
Nov 3rd - Players Night
Dec 1st - Xmas Concert
Workshop/seminars
Please note that in order to ensure an effective combination of
complete
workshop and some time for playing, these sessions will commence
at 8:30 on the
dot.
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5. Gig List July Got a Gig then let us know
Wed 7th Adrian Ingram/Remi Harris/Lee Jones; Guitar Super Jam;
Electric
Cinema. Birmingham
Fri 10th Adrian Ingram/Darren Dutson Bromley. Oscars, Newark
8:30
Sat 18th Adrian Ingram/Darren Dutson Bromley. Colne Wine Bar
Sun 26th Adrian Ingram with Paul Smith trio. Kennedys York 1:00
pm
Fri 31st Adrian Ingram/Darren Dutson Bromley. Strays, Newark
7:30
Sun 2nd Aug Jade Harris with Ian Wroe, Adrian Ingram and John
Taylor. The Grove,
Huddersfield 4:00
New Jazz Gig
The Jazz Dawgs will be hosting a regular monthly gig every 1st
Sunday
(4:00pm 7:00pm) at the Grove, Huddersfield.
The Dawgs will feature different guest(s) each month
interspersed with the
occasional jam session in which anyone can play, (please bear in
mind, however,
that it is a jam session and not an open mic!).
The Grove is considered by many to be the best pub in the area,
it certainly
has the greatest variety of real ales! The roster so far is:
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Sun 2nd Aug Guest - Jade Harris & Jon Taylor
Live Jazz every Sunday and Tuesday at The Railway, Stockport
74-76 Wellington Road North, Stockport SK4 1HF
Tel 0161 477 3680
9-11pm free admission
Wakefield Jazz
Wakefield jazz have made an offer of a discount on their normal
entry
price, if we can block book tickets. We believe the cut-off
point is 10 tickets,
which reduces the entry cost to 10 (normally 14).
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6. Reviews
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7. Of Interest
Found anything on the web or heard of something which may
interest our members, then
this is the place for it.
Other Jazz Guitar Clubs/Societies
(We are 1 of only 4 jazz guitar societies in England)
Here are a few links: -
http://cheadlejazzguitarclub.wordpress.com/
http://www.southjazzguitar.org
http://www.treforowen.com/index.php?id=38
http://www.meetup.com/LondonJazzGuitarSociety/
http://members.iinet.net.au/~jgswa/index.htm Jazz Guitar Society
of Western
Australia
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Web Sites
www.mambo-amp.co.uk
www.adrianingram.com
www.jazzdawgs.co.uk
http://jazzguitarscene.wordpress.com/
http://www.joefinn.net/html/jazz_guitar_almanac.html
http://jamieholroydguitar.com
http://www.darrendutsonbromley.com Check out Darrens pod
casts
www.jazzonthetube.com
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8. Tuition
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Registry of Guitar Tutors (RGT) Jazz Guitar Diplomas
http://www.rgt.org/exams/jazz-guitar-performance-diploma.php
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Members of the HJGS might be interested in my Mike's Master
Classes site
www.mikesmasterclasses.com
- also on FB and I have a Youtube channel "mgellar" that has
clips from all of the
classes on there that are available for download.
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DON'T FORGET TO BOOK EARLY FOR THE OCTOBER JAZZ GUITAR WEEKEND
WITH JACK
WILKINS AS GUEST TUTOR.
24th NORTH WALES INTERNATIONAL JAZZ GUITAR WEEKEND
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OCTOBER 9th 11th 2015
GLYNDWR UNIVERSITY
Mold Road, Wrexham, Wales, LL11 2AW
North Wales Jazz: Now celebrating fifteen years of international
jazz guitar events in
Wrexham.
IMPROVE YOUR JAZZ GUITAR SKILLS AT THIS GREAT VALUE WEEKEND!
Only 99! (90 Concessions). 95 for North Wales Jazz members.
Call +44 (0)1745 812260 to enrol and for further info or see
www.northwalesjazz.org.uk and
download the enrolment form.
Five 2 hour workshops with internationally renowned tutors.
GUEST TUTOR JACK WILKINS www.jackwilkins.com
RESIDENT TUTOR TREFOR OWEN www.treforowen.com
Group A:
Hands-on tuition sessions, i.e. for students who wish to learn
in a playing situation.
Group B:
Tuition sessions for students who need help in basic skills.
Saturday evening concert (October 10th 8.30pm) featuring the
course tutors plus guests.
Wide choice of reasonably priced accommodation available in
Wrexham and the surrounding
area.
Registered Charity No. 508519 President: Martin Taylor MBE.
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9. Sales
Please let me know as soon as items are sold to remove them from
the list.
An important message to all contributors to the sales
column.
Modern digital cameras take highly detailed pictures. This
detail comes at a cost, namely
huge file size. If this newsletter becomes too big
(approximately 6-7 Mb), some email services,
particularly academic institutions and businesses, will not
deliver it.
If you want to include a picture of the sale item, or indeed
item in our swap a lick column, then
the pictures need to be reduced in file size, preferably no more
than 100KB per picture.
Hints. Try searching for optimising images for the web for help
on this.
Crop the image view to show just the item.
I, unfortunately, dont have the time to spend optimising images
for the newsletter. If they are
too big they risk getting left out.
Ian
Many guitars have been sold through our monthly sales listings.
If an
item is sold, as a direct consequence of an ad being seen in
the
newsletter, we, the committee, would be pleased to receive a
small
contribution to HJGS funds.
In order to keep the content fresh, we have decided that all ads
will run for
THREE editions and will be deleted unless specifically resent.
All current
ads will be removed from next months newsletter unless we
receive
notification from advertisers.
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Gibson ES150 Feb15
Gibson ES150 with P90 pickup, in original condition. 1650. Plays
and sounds great.
Will come with a hiscox case.
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DeArmond guitar pickup..160.00
Tel: Tom 07972580332.
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Carlton flight guitar case. (Gibson L5 size). 200 ono.
Evans amp AE 100. 1 x 8" - 550. In excellent condition with
padded cover.
Evans 200 watt amp. I x 12" Eminence speaker - Teak cabinet with
padded cover -
350
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Contact Trefor Owen on
07423 016888
E-mail [email protected]
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Feb15
Gibson custom shop Tal Farlow jazz guitar
(with custom shop case) for sale
If any one wishes more photos I have plenty - or telephone me
on
07731681017
Sounds great / plays like butter (virtually unused) - a quality
Gibson
custom shop guitar which retails for well over 4000.00.
I am prepared to let it go (I don't have the skill or talent to
play jazz) for
the bargain price of 2500.00
Cheers
Graham White
Email [email protected]
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Jun15
One of 4 Benedetto Benny prototypes made. This one for Adrian
Ingram (Howard Alden,
Jimmy Bruno, and Frank Vignola had the others). It has a two
piece spruce top and a
chambered mahogany back, exotic headstock overlay, ebony
fingerboard and
scratchplate and gold hardware....2,500 ono
Contact: David Beswick 07751 041 479, email:
[email protected]
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A message from Roy Sainsbury
Brian Jones, my guitar student and good friend has these guitars
available for hire at an
absurdly low rate, i.e. from 35 per month. I am hiring a 1959
Gibson L4c from him at
present.
Here is a list of guitars currently available to your
members-
Gibson es 175 with P90, c1953
Epiphone Triumph with DeArmond 1000
Ibanez Howard Roberts, c 1978
Epiphone Riviera
Knight Arena, Small archtop
Knight 16" archtop
Schwartz 18"
Eastman AR403
Gibson lap steel with Charlie Christian pickup
Rialto, Beautiful British hand carved archtop with Rialto single
coil floating pickup
Vintage Ibanez Joe Pass JP20
Knight JSS 16"
Guild A300, like Artist Award, with DeArmond1100
Moondog Grand Auditorium, Superb Flat Top, built in pickup
Call Roy Sainsbury, 01902 845246 or 07866 430826 to arrange to
visit Brian in Codsall, wv8
,to try a selection of instruments at your leisure.
These guitars are also for sale in addition to being available
for rental
Heres a message from Dan at Foulds Guitars
I'm running short of jazz guitars again! I've still got a bigger
stock than most but
decent jazzers between 300 and 1500 I'm selling everything I get
so if you
have any members that would like to move any unwanted guitars on
we may be
able to help. Of course I am happy to offer a deal on goods for
members, they
just need to mention when enquiring.
Trades
Wants
1. small amp : Polytone (any model considered); Musicman
RD50
(1x10 or 1x12)
2. Telecaster Seymour Duncan neck (rhythm) pickup (any spec)
3. Fender Hot Rod Telecaster
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If you have of know the whereabouts of any of the above please
contact Adrian
Ingram [email protected]
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10. Charts
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11. The lighter side of Music
After all of the sweat and tears of practising/playing/hunting
gigs we thought a
little humour may not come amiss. If you come across any joke,
bon mot, cartoon,
story etc. which tickled your funny bone, then please send it in
and share. Here are
this months offerings: -
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Send us yours!
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12. Services
The Amp Shack
The Professional Tone Breakdown Service
Ph: +44 (0) 7716 460 163
Email: [email protected]
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For all amp (valve and solid state) and
effect pedal repairs.
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Huddersfield Jazz Guitar Society
Contact [email protected]
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then send an email
with the subject 'REMOVE' to [email protected]
Cheers
Ian
