Progressions 100 Years of Jazz Guitar

<body text="#000000" link="#666666" vlink="#000000" alink="#FFFFFF" bgcolor="#99CCCC">   Seventy-five guitar giants are included in 100 YEARS OF JAZZ GUITAR, a remarkable 4-CD anthology that not only draws upon the extensive catalogues of Columbia and RCA Records and their subsidiaries, but leases material from about 20 other labels to yield the absolutely definitive jazz guitar collection ever assembled. The set spans the years 1906 to 2001, from the ragtime banjo of Vess Ossman (originally recorded on an Edison cylinder) to the diaphonous chords of Bill Frisell. In between, virtually every major figure of the jazz guitar weighs in, from Eddie Lang, Django Reinhardt, and Charlie Christian to Les Paul, Tal Farlow, and Wes Montgomery, and right up to Jim Hall, Grant Green, George Benson, Pat Martino, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, and John Scofield (one of the producers of this set). <br><br> And the package's artistic focus is not strictly limited to pure jazz players, as witness the presence of a variegated group of important improvisers like Hawaiian string kings Roy Smeck and Sol Hoopi, Western Swing aces Leon McAuliffe and Eldon Shamblin, and the brilliant Brazilians, Laurindo Almeida and Joao Gilberto (the godfather of Bossa Nova). One also encounters country-jazz innovator Hank Garland, rock 'n' blues titans Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck, progressive rock icon Allan Holdsworth, fusion meisters Larry Carlton, Al DiMeola, and Mike Stern, and avant-garde pace-setters Derek Bailey, Sonny Sharrock, James "Blood" Ulmer, and Marc Ribot. <br><br> In addition, the box contains a generous book filled with photographs of the principles heard herein, as well as an authoritative essay by British guitar scholar Charles Alexander, old guitar ads, photos of the many classic guitar models, and solo transcriptions, among other things. Clearly, 100 YEARS OF JAZZ GUITAR is the set to get if one is even remotely interested in the history and development of guitar over the course of the past century.   <font face="arial,helvetica" size="2"> <b>Your browser does not support frames!</b><br><br> Some of the features on this site require a frames-capable browser. For best results, we recommend that you download the latest version of <a href="http://home.netscape.com/download/sd_cc32d474en.html" target="_blank">Netscape Navigator</a> or <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.htm" target="_blank">Internet Explorer</a><p> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.htm" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.sonymusic.com/images/animated_logo.gif" width="88" height="31" border="0"></a> <a href="http://home.netscape.com/download/sd_cc32d474en.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.sonymusic.com/images/netscape_now_anim.gif" width="90" height="30" border="0"></a> <b>AOL Users:</b> You must be running AOL 2.5 or later for Windows to use Netscape (Keyword: UPGRADE). You will also need to download and install WINSOCK.DLL (Keyword: WINSOCK). Macintosh users should contact AOL directly for help.<br><br> Go to <a href="http://www.legacyrecordings.com/">Legacy Recordings</a> for more information on 100 Years of Jazz Guitar</font> <NOSCRIPT> <IMG ALT="" BORDER="0" NAME="DCSIMG" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" SRC=" http://statse.webtrendslive.com/dcscpnt9510000w4ticw16uaj_5i7p/njs.gif?dcsuri=/nojavascript&WT.js=No&WT.tv=8.0.0"> </NOSCRIPT> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-458678-21"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); </script> </body>