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Re: Unamplified jazz guitar solos
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 9:33 pm
by 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.
Re: Unamplified jazz guitar solos
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 9:39 pm
by Dave Bagwill
Good stuff, thanks.
Here's an 18" unplugged.
http://youtu.be/bcw-tOkNPNY
Re: Unamplified jazz guitar solos
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:23 pm
by 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
Re: Unamplified jazz guitar solos
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 11:11 pm
by John Parchem
maybe plug in I could not tell
Re: Unamplified jazz guitar solos
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 11:22 pm
by Dave Bagwill
Those gypsy guitars can really project.
Re: Unamplified jazz guitar solos
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:20 am
by 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.