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Jazz Guitarists - V

 

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Johnnie Valentino

members.aol.com/ninewinds/BIOS/valentino.html

Artist Info

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Born in 1957 in a South Philadelphia neighborhood filled with a history of jazz guitarists that starts with 1920’s legend Eddie Lang continuing through to today’s jazz guitar legend Pat Martino, Johnnie studied privately as a young man with Dennis Sandole, Joe Sgro and Pat Martino.


Saulo Valerio

www.saulovalerio.co.uk


Jaime Valle

www.jaimevalle.com


Hans van Leeuwen

members.chello.nl/h.leeuwen6/IrishTune.htm

George Van Eps

Links

George Van Eps is credited with creating the first 7 string "jazz" guitar". At one time Gretsch had a George Van Eps model 6 and 7 string production guitar.

George Van Eps created the first 7-string jazz guitar in 1938. He took his beloved Epiphone guitar to the Epiphone factory in New York and had the neck, tailpiece, and bridge replaced to accommodate an extra string, a low A tuned a perfect fifth below the low E string. Thus the seventh string did not alter the standard tuning of the instrument but enhanced it by adding the rich tones of the bass register. The 7th string opened up many opportunities for building walking bass lines while simultaneously comping chords. It also expanded the range of the instrument giving George a richer, fuller sound when playing solo guitar. Van Eps called it his "lap piano".

George Van Eps Here is a link the George Van Eps iTunes music.

As a 7 string jazz guitarist I have a web page dedicated to the 7 string guitar.


Ukulele

Joe Jewell

www.joejewellguitar.com


Ukulele

Robbert van Renesse

www.cs.cornell.edu | www.vanrenesse.com |

Look inside this title
Understanding Ukulele Chords - sheet music at www.sheetmusicplus.com
Understanding Ukulele Chords By Robbert van Renesse. For Ukulele (Soprano). Theory & harmony. All Styles. Level: Intermediate. Book. Size 8.5x11. 48 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc. (20704)
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Jesse van Ruller

www.jessevanruller.com


Kevin van Sant

www.kevinvansant.com SoundClick.com

♫ Contributer to the RMMGJ (rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz) newsgroup.


Roland Veitch

www.rolyveitch.20m.com


Ted Vieira

www.tedvieira.com

Ted Vieira is the creator and maintainer of the OmniGuitar.com website


Marco Vienna

link

Site in Italian and English. Very nice site.


Larry Vigneault

www.ma.ultranet.com/~larryv/guitarsetup.htm | SoundClick.com

Frank Vignola
(12/30/1965 - )

Links

Info click here to view more info

Frank Vignola's Groove Camp: truefire.com/groovecamp/groovecamp.html

Frank Vignola Frank Vignola music available on iTunes


Al Viola
June 16, 1919 – February 21, 2007

www.alviola.com

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (AP) — Al Viola, a guitarist who worked with Frank Sinatra for 25 years and also played the mandolin on the “Godfather” soundtrack, died on Wednesday at his home in Studio City. He was 87.

Artist Info

(source: www.alviola.com)

Al Viola started music early. “I was the youngest child from a big Italian family and we had all kinds of instruments at the house including guitars, mandolins and an upright player piano. My brother, who played mandolin, needed someone to accompany him so he taught me a few chords on guitar to play behind him". Al teamed up with a violinist friend of his who admired Joe Venuti. They used to play duets like Venuti and Eddie Lang around the neighborhood in Brooklyn, performing at Chinese restaurants. "My mother thought I was robbing the bank because I was bringing home twenty-two dollars a week during the depression!”

During a 4 ½ year period in the Army (1942 – 1945), Al met up with pianist Page Cavanaugh. “Page and I were both in the Army band stationed in Sacramento. We also worked together in a dance band along with bassist Lloyd Pratt.” After their discharge, Viola, Page and Pratt formed the Page Cavanaugh Trio, moved to Los Angeles and soon became a very popular attraction. We recorded for RCA Victor, appeared in Five movies, toured the United States, Canada, and Europe doing theaters and clubs, such as “King Cole Room” at the Trocadero and Ciro’s. “There was a special chemistry between the three of us. Page would play an intro, I’d be right there and in less than ten minutes we’d have an arrangement. The trio was a purely instrumental group at first until our manager insisted that we sing. Our whispering unison vocals caught on with songs like ‘The Three Bears’ and ‘Walkin My Baby Back Home.’”

“The first time I met Frank Sinatra was in the late 40’s when he came in to hear the Page Cavanaugh Trio. He liked us so much that he took the Trio to New York with him to perform at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel followed by an appearance at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City". In 1949 Al quit the Trio and stayed in Los Angeles to pursue studio work as a freelance musician. During that time Al worked with some of the big bands such as Harry James, Ray Anthony, Les Brown, and Nelson Riddle. Additionally, Al did work with some jazz groups; Buddy Collette, Red Callendar, Bobby Troup, Terry Gibbs, Shelley Mann and Leroy Vinegar and continued his studies at the California Academy of Music studying classical guitar, harmony and theory. Studio work was plentiful, recording with Frank Sinatra, June Christie, Julie London, Steve Lawrence, Neil Diamond, Linda Ronstadt, Natalie Cole, Hadda Brooks and Film/TV scores like Billy Jack, Blazing Saddles, Cool Hand Luke, West Side Story, The Godfather, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf.

"When I was working with Bobby Troup one of Sinatra’s buddies heard me and told me that Frank needed a guitar player. I joined Sinatra right after he did Wee Small Hours for Capitol Records around 1954-55". In 1962 as part of the Bill Miller Sextet, Al went on a ten week world tour with Sinatra. Al continued to work with Frank Sinatra on most of his recordings, television specials and his appearances in Las Vegas and Concerts. In 1973, Al accompanied him to the White House when he performed there.

“What I enjoyed most about working with Frank is that he was unpredictable. When I accompanied him, I couldn’t quite predict where he was going, which made it challenging and exciting! He always surprised me on stage. Although he wasn’t known as a jazz singer, he ad-libbed like one and wouldn’t sing a song the same way, twice. I consider myself very fortunate since he seemed to like the way I played behind him. I have traveled the world on tour with Frank Sinatra and enjoyed every minute of it.”


Harry Volpe

classicjazzguitar.com


Matthew Von Doran

All Time Greats and My Favorite Guitarists

 

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Here are a few of my favorite jazz guitarists

* Send me your information. I'll check out your web site and add your link *

Guitarist you MUST check out: Chuck Anderson.
Chuck has a great CD out titled Angel Blue with Phillys hottest players.
Chuck has also re-releasing his 1975 trio recording Mirror In A Mirror on CD.

One of the BEST sites for information on classic jazz guitarists visit classicjazzguitar.com. Great for an artist's discography and bio information.

For artists not listed at classicjazzguitar.com, I've not seen a better site for information than this site. Check it out. There are links throught out the guitarists listing here.

And then there is WikipediA which has a list of jazz guitarists.

Additional Guitarist Links

 

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Here are some additional sites that list links and information to fellow jazz guitarists.

* Guitar Masters (broken link) * AllMusic.com * Classic Jazz Guitar

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