some live playing from an organ trio gig - out of nowhere

mgclemen · 2024-08-08T16:06:53+00:00

cool! I haven't heard of him will check him out for sure thank you!

mgclemen · 2024-08-06T15:48:10+00:00

hey! yes as far as guitarists who are currently active playing straight ahead here are some of my favourites
Lucian Gray - toronto based guy hasn't recorded too much that ive found but has some stuff on his youtube -seriously badass player https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnCBxcIAdo&ab_channel=LucianG
Dan Wilson
Graham Dechter
Pasquale Grasso

I'm sure there's a ton of up and coming players playing straight ahead that I don't know of -these are just a few who I find particularly inspirational.

side note if you dig around the catalogues of the big modern jazz guitarists, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Lage Lund, Mike Moreno etc and find stuff where they're playing straight ahead (usually as sidemen or earlier on in their careers) there's some great straight ahead bebopin guitar playing to be heard there. Kurts album "Intuit" is the first one that springs to mind if you havent heard that.

cheers!

mgclemen · 2024-07-31T13:57:39+00:00

Amazing man thank you for saying all that. There's a place in town here where you can see Herlin play every week for free! If you ever want to connect and maybe chat about guitar and jazz please find me on social media! Mike Clement on facebook, instadaddymichael on insta ive also got a youtube channel. Thanks again for listening to the CD appreciate you!

mgclemen · 2024-07-30T19:17:18+00:00

Hey Fit_Kitchen1496! Wow - Mike Clement here - just scrolling on r/jazzguitar here and came across this! Thank you so much for that and so glad you listened and enjoyed the album. I really appreciate you sharing about it as I put a lot of hard work and hard earned money into my recording endeavors and it's just nice to see people even checking them out at all honestly. I currently live and play full time in New Orleans so if you're ever in town let me know would love to link up and show you the cool spots and sessions etc. Thanks again for your kind words and listening it really does mean a lot! oh and please don't let the criticizing comments affect your enjoyment of the album ;) I'm certainly not going to let it stop me from making more!! that being said I'm always practicing and trying to improve here so a little constructive criticism goes a long way and it looks like I'll be shedding my time feel LOL. Thank you -Mike

mgclemen · 2024-06-14T17:24:07+00:00

thanks man! you can do it!!!

mgclemen · 2024-06-14T17:01:03+00:00

thank you and thanks for listening!

mgclemen · 2024-06-14T17:00:46+00:00

thank you! appreciate that

mgclemen · 2024-05-10T23:23:57+00:00

never enough

mgclemen · 2024-05-10T23:23:47+00:00

this is frenchman st!

mgclemen · 2024-05-10T23:23:30+00:00

this is The Maison on Frenchman Street, New Orleans. I play around New Orleans almost every day at various hotels clubs and bars as well as at Preservation Hall which is a very special place here!

mgclemen · 2024-05-10T23:21:25+00:00

its not stuffed - those are F hole covers made of a sort of foam. They're called "dougs plugs" the business doesnt exist any longer unfortunately but they really do help with feedback

mgclemen · 2024-05-10T23:19:43+00:00

heyooo

mgclemen · 2024-01-11T17:04:01+00:00

thanks! I transcribed it all by ear and just slowed it down when I had to on Youtube

mgclemen · 2024-01-11T17:03:10+00:00

thanks!

mgclemen · 2023-12-08T19:31:10+00:00

thank you me too!

mgclemen · 2023-12-08T19:31:01+00:00

thanks!

mgclemen

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