Jim Hall 6 | Jazz Guitar Lesson

http://www.miamijazzguitar.com/signature-series.html This is the 6th in a series of videos featuring transcribed by jazz guitar player, Jim Hall. About the Jazz Guitarist's Signature Series: Each lesson checks out the improvisational styleof a prominent artist within the history of jazz guitar. This is done with a brief transcribed riff, most likely repeated a reoccurring harmonic cadence (eg. II-V-I). About Jim Hall: He was born in Buffalo, NY on December 4, 1930 and relocated to Cleveland, Ohio where he started playing the guitar at age 10. Like many guitar players growing up during that time, Hall listened to Charlie Christian however was influencedgenerally by the likes of Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and various other horn players. After playing professionally as a teenager, in 1955 Hall went to the Cleveland Institute of Music where he majored in composition. After relocating to Los Angeles a year later, Hall focused on classical guitar and joined Chico Hamilton's 5tet. It was during this time that the young guitar player first started to acquire the attention which would lead to performances/recordings with Jimmy Giuffre, Ben Webster, Costs Evans, Paul Desmond, Ella Fitzgerald, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer. This was a time when "Cool Jazz" was prominent and Hall's warm tone and use of silence during his solos assisted him stand out as an innovator among other jazz guitar players. Although Jim Hall made his first recording "Jazz Guitar" for Pacific Jazz in 1957, it had not been until more than a years later that he regularly started to record and carry out as a leader. His fresh compositional technique to improvisation has influenced a host of post-bop guitar players such as John Scofield, Pat Metheny, John Abercrombie and Bill Frisell to namejust a hand full. As a matter of truth, Jim Hall is typically described as the "father of modern-day jazz guitar".…