The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #115388   Message #2494409
Posted By: The Sandman
15-Nov-08 - 03:34 AM
Thread Name: Folk Club Manners
Subject: RE: Folk Club Manners
wld.
The Streams of Lovely Nancy ,is in The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs.
Jazz sounds very good on an acoustic guitar[imo],there is no earthly reason why Jazz cant be played in open tunings,using open strings.a lead jazz guitarist can still play all his solos in open tuning,a rhythym Jazz guitarist,can play Jazz in DADGAD or any other open tuning,he may be limited keywise,and some progressions may be more difficult, depends on the tuning,after all blues guitarists use open tunings,and there is a strong association between blues and Jazz.
Willie Johnson[shetland guitarist]played Jazz chords behind shetland traditional music using an acoustic guitar,way back in the 1950s.