Jazz guitar

Hi,

People at my school have convinced me to join the 'Jazz band' Just wondering what kind of effects/amps/guitar are normal

for big band? generally a hollow body (aka jjazz box) or Gibson ES style guitar, clean amp, maybe reverb or slapback echo... occasionally trem or chorus in ballads, boost for solos if you aren't competent with your volume control while playing... chord encyclopedia, mel bay's modern method for guitar (the one written in the 70s)...

jazz band was a formative musical experience for me 20 years ago and it will be for you if you treat it with respect whether you like the music or not, respect the rhythm section coach even if the band leader is a sax-playing dingus who doesn't get guitarists... try out for every solo oportunty even if you think you'll lose to the horn players, just attempting to write out a winning solo or to improve one will make you better player every time you try it....

oh man, good luck.... just bring your ears first and foremost

Just bring some heroine and sunglasses.

nah, that's small band, dizzy/bird type jazz... big bands are totally different

your attitude is like if I said that in order play every style of metal on guitar you just needed to grow your hair out, bring a bottle of jagermeister and an ego problem

Cool thanks! Not sure about the heroine tho...

it makes you itchy and drowsy, the euphoria doesn't last long enough and if you're from my region the stuff's so potent even off the street that you are in danger of OD if you keep trying to recapture the rush... not a fun drug... also? highly physically addictive, thpugh junkies are such whiners, tough thru withdrawal after a long party weekend and you will never touch the stuff again, but its still just like a super-virulent case of the flu with extra vomiting, no reason to knock over liquor stores to avoid it!

Just say no kids.

but good luck in jazz band, if you have any musical questions just ask me.... I played in the school big bands from 7th grade into university, so I got pretty good at it

Cool thanks! I hear it can be hard to learn the styles so I may have some questions at some point.

I had a look at my nearest music store and I found a really nice looking epiphone 339 and is was only $800NZD (I live in New Zealand)

don't buy a Chinese Gibson copy, even one released by Gibson.... seriously, they are always kinda off... also, if they want overdriven fusion solos you will feedback with a fully hollow guitar because you will need to get loud to cut thru a full horn section, I started with a vintage guild but switched to a blocked 335 style so I could get the singing BB king kinda tone the director wanted from me without howling like a mofo (I used to run my old Princeton really loud around 8 to 10 and then have my rhythm pickup set full blast as a fat jazz fusion elad and my lead pickup rolled way back for chord work, flip a switch and you are fat and compressed)... for the money you are looking at trawl around for a 70s Yamaha SA series or 80s epi Sheraton II (or early 90s, but the 80s ones are best, my favorite examples say "epihpone by Gibson" on the headstock and go for around $500 US)...

if you must go hollow get a full depth for the wes Montgomery tone, only grant green played a casino/330 and hes 50% blues! My best friend recently decided to elarn jazz and put about $800 into one of the entry elvel D'angelicos and its very impressive, and not just for the price... again Yamaha made and still makes excellent full depth archtops for the journeyman jazz player and of course there's the peerless jazzboxes thata re prised by students...

Eastman makes the only Chinese jazzboxes and 335-style guitars that I have found to be worth damn. I would take an Eastman over any epi made since about '96

also, have a strat available in case you do any 70s jazz/funk like "fireshaker" or something.... the strat's quack position is a must for some of that weather report and steely dan influenced big band music!

Ah! Thanks, so the extra price is worth it for a Shearton? I was also wondering, I know like nobody uses Jazzmasters for Jazz, but would it be okay? Because I won't one of them as well and a Squier Jazzmasters is cheaper than a Sheraton dot.

Also the Jazz band is only 4 or 5 brass instruments, so would my 10 watt Hiwatt be enough?

no, you're not listening.... AN OLD SHERATON

5 brass instruments? including sax? where are the other guys?

nah, that's small band, dizzy/bird type jazz... big bands are totally different

your attitude is like if I said that in order play every style of metal on guitar you just needed to grow your hair out, bring a bottle of jagermeister and an ego problem

This is EXACTLY how I learned to play metal sir.

It's a small band... Thanks for the help! I'll start saving for an Old Sheraton

Subscribed. Maybe If I take all the allotted courses on the side, the school will allow me to join the band for a bit. Reverb.com seems to have a few 90's Sheraton. I think my favourite on the list is the '90 with the tobacco sunburst (purely aesthetic-wise).