Herb Ellis

Taking its title from Herb Ellis’ most famous composition Detour Ahead chronicles the life and music of the famed jazz guitarist. From his birth in Farmersville Texas and his early days playing rhythm in the big bands of Jimmy Dorsey and Glen Gray to his innovative work with groups like the Soft Winds Detour Ahead covers every major step of the guitarist’s life. Much attention is given to his groundbreaking work with the Oscar Peterson Trio of the 1950s his days with Ella Fitzgerald his work with the Great Guitars and his many friends in jazz. On-camera interviews include Ray Brown Charlie Byrd Benny Golson Benny Green Al Grey Lionel Hampton Gene Harris Jon Hendricks and Hank Jones. Along with modern interviews Detour Ahead features never-before-seen home movies from jazz’s golden age of Herb on tour with Dizzy Gillespie Ella Fitzgerald and others. Complete musical tunes from various live and studio venues include The Days of Wine and Roses Sweet Georgia Brown Body and Soul Georgia On My Mind Danny Boy John Brown’s Body and Wave. Sidemen include guitarists Charlie Byrd Tal Farlow Terry Holmes; bassmen Norm Cochran and Jack Hannah drummers Tommy Perkins and Ernie Durawa and pianist Sonny Gray.

Par ELLIS HERB. / Classique / Date parution : 1905-06-24/ Feuillet / Chant et Piano

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.

Par ELLIS HERB. Herb Ellis guitare méthode (volume 1) la méthode est conçue pour prendre le mystère de jouer de la guitare jazz. Chaque livre dans la méthode est basée sur un des trois progressions de corde pivot dans le répertoire du guitariste jazz. Herb enseigne single-note improvisation grâce à un système de simpapes qui sont dérivés de doigtés de corde. / Méthode / Méthode / Guitare

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.