The Epiphone Joe Pass Emperor II is an archtop guitar. The guitar model produced by Epiphone as Joe Pass’s signature model. The guitar first released in 1994 just prior to Joe Pass’s death and it still produced until now. There are a few notable users of this model, one of them being Kyle Justin, who is known for co-writing the theme song and several other pieces of music for The Angry Video Game Nerd. Read the rest of this entry
Peavey has been making these amps since the early 70′s where they originated from the Mississippi Delta. The Peavey classic 30 has become a favorite amplifiers amongst many popular musicians today With it’s simple classic design. It is used in the studio and it has been proven to hold up to the trials and tribulations on the road.
Starting off with looks, the Classic’s appearance is based almost entirely on early tweed Fenders – down to the chicken-head knobs, chrome-plated panel and fittings, name-plate and carrying handle. The speaker baffle is cut from approx 20mm ply. It is recess-mounted with 8 wood-screws, and covered with a tough ox-blood cloth. The Peavey badge is mounted centrally above the speaker. Read the rest of this entry
George Benson was born in March 22, 1943.He is simply one of the greatest guitarists in jazz history, but he is also an amazingly versatile musician; and that frustrates critics to no end who would paint him into a narrow bop box. He can play in just about any style from swing to bop to R&B to pop with supreme taste, a beautiful rounded tone, terrific speed, a marvelous sense of logic in building solos, and, always, an unquenchable urge to swing. His inspirations may have been Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery but his style is completely his own.
Not only can he play lead brilliantly, he is also one of the best rhythm guitarists around, supportive to soloists and a dangerous swinger, particularly in a soul-jazz format. Yet Benson can also sing in a lush soulful tenor with mannerisms similar to those of Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway; and it is his voice that has proved to be more marketable to the public than his guitar. Read the rest of this entry
Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus has been the amp of choice for jazz axemen and other guitarists for 20 years. They will never forget and can’t get enough of its rich and clean sound stereo chorus. When you plug your guitar into a JC-120 Jazz Chorus, all the true tonal character of your instrument will comes out. Frequency response is accurate and distortion is extremely low. This means the quality of your effects come through, too. There’s a stereo effects loop on channel 2 that meets full professional specifications; you can select series/parallel connections and switch between different input and output signal levels. Read the rest of this entry
This is the list of Top 100 Greatest Jazz Albums that will brings you the best of Top 100 list of Greatest Jazz Albums off all the time, highlighting the great jazz albums, selecting the best of the jazz CD and MP3 new releases.
The Top 100 is by no means an attempt to find out what the ‘best jazz albums of all time are, but it reflects which jazz recordings are most popular on the Amazon online store. One thing that you should know is that the results are nearly identical with other Top 100s found on the internet. Read the rest of this entry
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