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Resonance Records presents In the Beginning by jazz guitar icon Wes Montgomery. A 26-track collection of rare and never-before-released tracks spanning 1949-1958, including a complete, newly discovered 1955 recording session for Epic Records produced by Quincy Jones. In the Beginning will be released on May 12, 2015 as two-CD set that includes a 55-page booklet of liner notes by 2015 GRAMMY award winning journalist Ashley Kahn, legendary producer Quincy Jones, guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who and others, alongside rare never-before-published photos. . . .
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IN THE BASSMENT
Since 1970, Anthony Jackson has been paving the way for bass players from the moment he first hit the scene and turned heads with his unbelievable ability. After designing the first 6-string bass, Jackson found his full range and ever since, well, the rest is history. He has played with these phenomenal players: Hiromi Uehara, Michel Petrucciani and Steve Gadd and Harvey Mason, Alex Acuña, Lee Ritenour, Patrics Rushen and a lot more!
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WATCH THIS
Hamferð - Deyðir varðar
Some of you will argue about whether this is the most dramatic music video ever, but, honestly, if you've ever experienced a total eclipse of the sun, you'll agree that no event in nature can beat it. The doom metal band Hamferð originally released this song in 2013, but someone associated with the band had the amazing idea of re-recording it during the March 20, 2015 total eclipse of the sun over the Fareo Islands. The result is spectacular . . .
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Outside notes are easy to find, but tricky to use. By their simplest definition, outside notes are those pitches that do not reside within a key's parent scale. But even though these rogue tones are sitting in plain view, most guitarists don't know how to make a decidedly outside note-say, Db played over a C major vamp, sound anything but utterly wrong. How do we pull musical pearls out of these clams? First, to hear what's possible, we listen to the compelling ways . . .
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ARTIST AWARENESS
Joe Maphis was one of the flashiest country guitarists of the 1950s and 1960s, Joe Maphis was known as The King of the Strings. He was known for his use of a double-neck Mosrite guitar which had two six-string necks, with the shorter neck tuned an octave higher than standard. Maphis was a featured soloist on the Town Hall Party radio program, which was later syndicated for television under the name Ranch Party throughout the 1950s. Here is a video of his dazzling guitar virtuosity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi4W3qH4xxs
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