Pioneers of the Jazz Guitar

Pioneers of the Jazz Guitar
Yazoo 1057; Ordering Information

"The originality of these musicians is dazzling."
- Jazz Express

This anthology features the predecessors and contemporaries of Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian with an emphasis on the jazz guitar duet. Working within their seldom recorded solo or duet performances, master guitarists such as Eddie Lang, Lonnie Johnson, John Cali and others couple melodic sophistication with the kind of economy and restraint rarely achieved today in such compositions as Teasin' The Frets, handful Of Riffs, Chicken A La Swing, Feeling My Way and others.

Carl Kress & Dick McDonough


1. LONNIE JOHNSON & EDDIE LANG, Handful Of Riffs 2. EDDIE LANG & CARL KRESS, Feeling My Way 3. NICK LUCAS, Teasing The Frets 4. LONNIE JOHNSON & EDDIE LANG, Hot Fingers 5. JOHN CALI & TONY GUTTUSO, Hittin' On All Six 6. NICK LUCAS, Picking The Guitar 7. LONNIE JOHNSON & EDDIE LANG, Have To Change Keys To Play These Blues	8. DICK MCDONOUGH, Chasing A Buck 9. CARL KRESS & DICK MCDONOUGH, Chicken A La Swing 10. JOHN CALI & TONY GUTTUSO, Satan Takes A Holiday 11. CARL KRESS & DICK MCDONOUGH, Stage Fright 12. DICK MCDONOUGH, Dick Bernstein Ramble 13. CARL KRESS & DICK MCDONOUGH, Heat Wave 14. JOHN CALI & TONY GUTTUSO, A Study In Brown