The Care and Feeding of The Jazz Guitarist, Vol. 1, or, “Tuning Up Your Life with PPPP: (Planning & Persistence Prevents Pain)â€
Category: Blog
By: Doug Perkins
It’s a new year and lots of people make a lot of resolutions to do things differently now. You probably have a list of things that you wish were different in your musical life, but possibly only a vague idea of what should be done about them, and not much of a real plan to […]
Read More...A Plan to Actually Fix The Music Industry – No, Really…
Category: Articles, Blog
By: Doug Perkins
A Plan to Actually Fix The Music Industry – No, Really… I’m well aware what a grandiose claim that is but I want to get people’s attention to actually read this, if only to try to shoot holes in it, but I’ll start by giving some legitimacy to my having an understanding of the way […]
Read More...Rotem Sivan, a cutting edge guitar voice from Israel in NYC!
Category: Uncategorized
By: Doug Perkins
I interviewed Israeli born NYC jazz guitarist Rotem Sivan from his apartment over Skype on Sunday, Jan. 13 2019 – I found him to be a man of a surprisingly high and disciplined work ethic with a very clear vision of what he wants to do musically and where his career is going. In hearing […]
Read More...Dario Chiazzolino Interview – A Jazz Guitar Phenomenon!
Category: Interviews
By: jpdim
I (Doug Perkins) first became aware of the jazz guitar phenomenon known as Dario Chiazzolino (the non-Italian pronunciation being “Chee-as-o-LEEN-oâ€) from some videos he posted in a Facebook jazz group. His video on “All The Things You Are†showed a very advanced understanding of harmony and a sort of Bach-like ability to control his improvisations […]
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