Herb Ellis

Ce DVD chronique la vie et la musique du célébre guitariste de jazz Herb Ellis. Un attention toute particulière a été mise sur son travail avec le 'Oscar Peterson Trio' dans les années 50, ses jours avec Ella Fitzgerald et son travail avec 'The Great Guitars'. Des interviews de Ray Brown, Charlie Byrd, Benny Golson, Benny Green, Al Grey, Lionel Hampton, Gene Harri, Jon Hendricks et Hank Jones. Un film inédit de Herb Ellis en tournée avec Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald ect... Différents enregistrements live et studio dont The Days of Wine, Danny Boy, John Brown's Body, Wave. / Guitare

Let the undisputed King of Swing bring a personable and relaxed approach to the serious business of creating flowing and swinging guitar lines. In this one-hour presentation Herb Ellis uses the 12-bar blues progression as a background while he discusses and demonstrates some favorite lines that have made him part of jazz guitar history. Herb takes you through tuning chord formations scales picking comping equipment and melodic ideas and adds some commonsense advice. DVD special features include a tuning segment a bonus performance by Joe Pass bonus lessons in swing blues and major arpeggios and printable PDF reference materials.

Artist Transcriptions for Guitar-This songbook contains exact transcriptions for 13 songs by the American jazz guitarist Herb Ellis.Best Of Herb Ellis: Artist Transcriptions - Guitar includes the pieces Easter Parade It Could Happen to You Pickly Wickly Royal Garden Blues Somebody Loves Me Stuffy and more.