The major and minor pentatonic scales lay the ... of the swinging pre-bop era (approximately 1930-1945), and what he did to solidify the electric guitar’s place in the jazz world was immeasurable.

On March ’23, her educational book ‘Bebop Scales for Jazz Guitar’ was released worldwide. It was published by music educator ‘Fundamental Changes’ which Amazon describes as “the most important ...

Jazz guitar has always been a dynamic art form, adapting to new styles while staying rooted in tradition. From the early swing and bebop pioneers ... with unconventional scales and harmonic ...

Bebop played the same part in the history of jazz that rock & roll played in the history of pop ... that swing musicians almost never explored such as the flatted fifth scale tone and altered ninth, ...

His experiments with complex harmony, Eastern scales, and chromaticism ... instrument on the former record, avoiding bebop clichés and standard jazz guitar chord voicings. McLaughlin’s ...

One of the leading musicians to emerge from Detroit's modern jazz explosion in the 1940s ... discovering the musical grammar that makes bebop work — scales, chords, chromatic passing tones.

With the decline of rock ‘n’ roll as a dominant cultural force the guitar has lost its ... in every style and permutation of jazz, from straight-ahead bebop to the amorphous borderlands ...

“Mr. Kitto”, I said, “I loved your guitar ... don’t make a jazz guitarist: it is the music they make that speaks to who they really are – especially if they are a a bebop-playing ...