Pat Metheny is a magnificent musician who just happened to make his fame by playing a rousing Jazz guitar. Metheny’s long career in Jazz has been vibrant and punching. He always takes you on a rapid, breathless, journey and then plunks you back to earth. Metheny’s new album — What’s It All About — dropped today, and the album consists of a curious, non-Jazzy, covers of several classics.
Neil Young is one of our greatest living musicians who writes so beautifully about the American experience. He’s always cagey and fun and eloquent and challenging. Neil’s new album is out this week, and it is called “A Treasure” and the music lives up to the album naming.
When a friend recommends an album for listening and you have a hard time getting into the album, it’s easy to put the album away and think to yourself that you will just listen to the album later. When one of my coworkers recommended that I listen to and review the new album by My Morning Jacket, I committed to it completely before I had even heard a song on the album. Once I had decided to write the review, I had written the check — but could I cash it?
Derek Trucks is a guitar player in the Allman Brothers Band with Warren Haynes. Derek is also the nephew of Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks. Derek Trucks is a SuperGenius musician. Hey may not have an effervescent facial expression on stage, but his magnificent fingers prove the magic and the methodology of his work. Derek is married to singer Susan Tedeschi and, together, they have formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band and their first album released dropped yesterday: Revelator.
If you want to buy professional guitar TAB sheet music online, you really have two choices: Hal Leonard’s GuitarInstructor.com and MusicNotes.com that offers a lot of Alfred Publishing songs. Between those two services, you should be able to find almost any song you want to play. Here’s the PR blurp for MusicNotes.com:
Musicnotes, Inc. offers an online catalog of 100,000 digital sheet music titles, built on the strength of content agreements with Alfred Publishing, EMI Music Publishing, Faber Music Ltd, Sony/ATV Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Disney Music Publishing, Cherry Lane Music Company, Peermusic, Word Music, EMI Christian, Bug Music and many others.
I usually buy my songs online from Hal Leonard, but now that I’m dipping a bit more into guitar Jazz, I was desperate to find “Take Five” — scored for the guitar — written by Paul Desmond and made popular by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. I found just what I wanted, and more, on MusicNotes.com:
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