Have You Met Miss Jones

The drummerless trio with bass, piano and guitar is my favorite format for bebop. This track is heavily influenced by Tal Farlow who often played and recorded like this. This tune too is one of my favorites since I heard Tal play it ... Of course the guitar is my Tal Farlow.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• guitar
• bebop
• al
• Farlow

[pamirs94]

digitech?

[dutchbopper]

Yeah, it's been months since I used the Line 6.

[sonofkikkoman]

what do you use for recording? seems like you have a very simple setup and you get some nice tones! but heck i dont know much about jazz and stuff like that. i'm more of that simple tube amp and a strat guy =) but damn you are quite good! i wish i could play jazz that well!

[dutchbopper]

I get this question so often that I need to upload a video on this.

[jazzclarinet2006]

Reminds me of the Farlow album "A Sign of the Times"

[dutchbopper]

Yes, that makes sense. Tal made a number of albums in this format.

[yvanjacques100]

That's the real Thing

[kenscott]

great tone great pick work but agin too mechanical and slowing down the hard bits then speeding up the easy bits. You are creating loads of tension in yourself - take a look at how tense your shoulders and chest are, it is like watching a guy walking a tight rope. Have a look at Wes or Louis Stewart and see how relaxed they are. It takes time and loads of practice - it won't take you long, it is all there you just have to get that time and relaxation thing sorted. Best regards, KS

[Tomflute]

Dutchbopper:

I got Tal's sound on my ES 175! Amazing! I cut a strip of chamois a little longer that the width of the fretboard at the nut and about 1 cm wide. I folded it in half to make it thicker and slid it under the strings at the nut, then turned up the treble all the way, with the bass on 3. What a terrific Tal sound! The chamois cuts out all the "ring" and reverb in the 175's sound. (I thought I was going to have to start looking for a Tal Farlow Gibson!

Tom/

[tdeecy]

Nice work, Dutchbopper! What amp are you using, and what treble/bass settings do you use?

I use an old Fender Princeton reverb - a tube amp - but I can't get that Tal Farlow sound on my ES 175.

[tdeecy]

Tal was a good friend of our family. He gave me my first guitar lessons and a pick - in my own house. An amazing guy. I've seen him get teary-eyed over a performance that he thought was sub-standard. After I moved to NYC I didn't see him for perhaps 25 years. One night I went down to the Village to see him play. At the end of a set, I went up and said hello and remind him who I was. As I walked up to him, he looked up and said, "Hi Tom! How are you?" He remembered every one in my family!

[woodlist]

Di bop de booobep di day-dim boo bep bebop for ever! The angels gave us that extra note.. And bebop was born! Yeahhh! Great stuff.

[AmundLauritzen]

What a wonderful treat to hear someone keep the Tal style alive! I never get tired of "The Swinging Guitar Of...", it has been my main inspiration. I need to ask where you found this backing track! I have been looking for backing tracks without drums because I am a fan of this band setting.

Beautiful playing. A very worthy tribute to one of the giants of bebop guitar!