Eddie lang

Subject: Eddie lang
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 08:33 AM

Does anyone know if there are any Eddie Lang websites about. I am looking for transcriptions etc online and general stuff.
Thanks.

Subject: RE: Eddie lang
From: mooman
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 08:41 AM

Dear Guest,

Perhaps

here

could be a good starting point?

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: Eddie lang
From: Steve Benbows protege
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 04:49 PM

Mooman, you beat me to it!! No transcriptions though? I would be interested in those.
pete.

Subject: RE: Eddie lang
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 05:06 PM

I don't know any transcriptions online, but the book "Famous Jazz Guitar Solos" (IMP publications) contains trnscriptions of A Handful of Riffs, Feelin' My Way, Pickin' My Way (one of my favourites) and Stringin' The Blues. (Did this man have an aversion to -ing endings?!). (It also has a couple of McDonough/Cress transcriptions too).

Norman Mongan's The History of the Guitar in Jazz also has a couple of transcriptions of Lang solos.

Mick

Subject: RE: Eddie lang
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 05:09 PM

That should have been (Carl) Kress, of course.

Mick

Subject: RE: Eddie lang
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 08:01 PM

Lonnie Johnson, Dick McDonough, Carl Kress and Eddie Lang all were great and should be in the record collection of anyone who wants to understand the pre-Django era. I won't say who I think is best cuz it is a thread about Eddie Lang.   (er...Lonnie Johnson)

Subject: RE: Eddie lang
From: M.Ted
Date: 07 Nov 03 - 05:02 PM

Lang wrote at least one instruction book for Jazz Guitar, and my recollection is that it was quite good--learned   some scale fingerings that lead in and out of various block chord positions from it--very useful--

Subject: RE: Eddie lang
From: greg stephens
Date: 07 Nov 03 - 05:15 PM

Best accompanist of all time, and thats official.

Subject: RE: Eddie lang
From: Amos
Date: 07 Nov 03 - 06:36 PM

LOVE that red hot Jazz site!!! Man, them were da daze!!! :>)


A

Subject: RE: Eddie lang
From: Steve Benbows protege
Date: 08 Nov 03 - 02:31 PM

Some good stuff. M.Ted which Eddie Lnag book. I have a copy of the modern Advanced guitar method. In it it does say about the Intermediate level book. which one did/do you have and do you still have it? If so a photocopy trade?

Subject: RE: Eddie lang
From: dermod in salisbury
Date: 08 Nov 03 - 03:03 PM

Eddie Lang's guitar solos were published, as I recall, by the Robbins Music Corporation of New York. I used to buy them from specialised shops in London as a teenager in the 1950s. But they were all thrown out when my parents moved home and were trashing, as they saw it, useless bits of paper lying around the house. I was working away from home at the time in one of my first jobs. Is it any wonder that generation was 'mixed up' and those who could afford the haircut were trying to look like James Dean?   Sadly, I cannot help your further in your quest for transcriptions. But maybe some our our American friends can point to a present day publishing source of these golden pieces of the plectrum era. While they are at it, somebody else might know were to find a copy of the lovely guitar solo, In Languid Mood, by Louis Gallo in tribute to Eddie Lang.