Re: Free Jazz/Avant-Garde Guitar

["Kris Hartung" <khartung@q.com>]

I've always loved the sound of a tele.

I do have an Eastman still, but I bought this custom Mirabella last month.

The Eastman is now my back up and travel guitar, since I probably won't 
feel 
comfortable checking the other one in, or putting in on the ala carte next 
to the plane.

Here is my whole simplied setup now:  
http://www.krispenhartung.com/gear.htm

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 



> "The most likely candidate when people think of "jazz" and  "Telecaster" 
> is my fellow Canuck, Ed Bickert."
>
>  Ed Bickert, What a great and underrated player, also on the list of 
> great tele jazzers was the late great  tele master and educator, Ted 
> Greene, to quote Mark Knopfler from Sultan's of Swing, "check out  
>guitar 
> joe, he knows all the chords" Ted's books are still essential  study for 
> anyone wanting to understand chord melody and substitution.  Also the 
>late 
> great Danny Gatton who could and would play anything on  a tele. My 
> current "jazz" box is my custom made  thinline tele that I  went so far 
>as 
> to put two humbucking pickups on, but am considering  replacing with 
>some 
> twangier pu's. I've found that one can approximate  a good dark jazz 
>tone 
> on single coil pickups, but that its more  difficult to get a brighter 
> twangier sound out of humbuckers without  radical use of equalization, 
>or 
> coil splitting which never sounds  quite convincing. Hey  Kris i thought 
> you said you have an Eastman  archtop, did you bite the bullet and buy 
>an 
> American made instrument?
> Bill
>