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Article: RANGE ROVERS JOE BECK AND JIMMY BRUNO EXPLORE JAZZ'S OUTER REGIONS.
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- Guitar Player
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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Jazz guitarists have been looking to expand the range of the instrument since the style's earliest days. Perhaps the desire to have lower and/or higher notes available grew out of a desire to challenge the perceived harmonic supremacy of the piano. Or maybe players have simply sought tunings that better suited their own idiomatic styles. After all, the guitar's standard tuning was developed long before jazz was ever conceived, and in a genre built on improvisation, players are bound to take individual approaches to the instrument. * Two modern-day players who have found ways to stretch the guitar's harmonic limits are Joe Beck and Jimmy Bruno--who each use different means ...
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