OT: Free Jazz/Avant-Garde Guitar

[William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com>]

"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