My Danish host, Nicolai Foss, has a blog on archtop jazz guitar. Here are his posts on the best of jazz guitar. I’ll nominate Joe Pass’s Virtuoso album, any number of Django Reinhardt collections, the Jim Hall-Sonny Rollins album, and the Wes Montgomery live album Smokin’ at the Half Note as my top picks. George van Eps and the old Kress and McDonough recordings are particular favorites as well. John McLaughlin is not to be neglected, and there is also the incomparable Bola Sete from Brazil.
Here is Nicolai’s home page, with many papers on management and also Austrian economics. Nicolai, of course, also blogs at Organizations and Markets, which has been on our blog roll for some time. Here is my other host, Mark Lorenzen.
here is a nice medeski martin and wood set with trey anastasio sitting in, but jon scofield’s “ago-go” with mmw as the backing band is one of my favorite jazz guitar albums of all time.
There was an interesting article on luthiers in the May 14th issue of the New Yorker.
While in Denmark, must sees are the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde (http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/) and the Louisiana art museum on the coast north of Copenhagen (http://www.louisiana.dk/english/). If you have access to a family with children, Legoland in Billund is fun. The impressionist art and lighthouses at Skagen are OK, if you’re way up north.
Wow, though, he loses a LOT of credibility with me for not appreciating Jim Hall….
Guitarist I’d most like to sound like: John Abercrombie.
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