Unamplified jazz guitar solos

[John Link]

You can also hear a couple of other sound clips conjoined with pictures at Monteleone's site.

Howard Emerson plays the Blue Comet archtop unamplified:

http://monteleone.net/Artists-howard_emerson.php


Joe Lostritto plays a Maccaferri inspired Hot Club Flattop:

http://monteleone.net/Artists-joe_lostritto.php

There is a clip of Woody Mann playing an amplified archtop and a lot of mandolins.

[Dave Bagwill]

Good stuff, thanks.
Here's an 18" unplugged.
http://youtu.be/bcw-tOkNPNY

[Dave Bagwill]

That 'Hot Club' flattop caught my attention. Here's a little info from the gypsy forum at djangobooks.com:

http://www.djangobooks.com/forum/viewto ... =9&t=11443

[John Parchem]

maybe plug in I could not tell

[John Parchem]

This one is not plugged in


maybe plug in I could not tell

[Dave Bagwill]

Those gypsy guitars can really project.

[John Link]

When Mario Maccaferri moved to the US he and John Monteleone became good friends and they both considered the Hot Club to be the continuation of the Maccaferri tradition, X-Braces and all, I assume.

Monteleone originally got a college degree in music. His range of interests - and successful innovations - in instrument building is astonishing. The guy on the forum Dave referenced on page 1 owns one of Mateleone's archtop beasts (as well as a Hot Club) and says the archtop is "a challenge". There is more than a ring of truth to that.