I like that "modal skating" term. Kinda of sad to an unabashed old timer. My intro to jazz guitar was around 1970 when the difference between hearing Burrell, Farlow, Wes, Barney, Pass and the like was a mind blowingly rich harmonic & rhythmic revelation compared to my thinking I was getting to be pretty hot stuff with my folk/rock guitar picking. If this kind of thing had been my intro to "jazz guitar" I don't think I would ever been grabbed by it.? I am advanced enough to understand exactly what he is doing and can never figure out why some would think this kind of stuff is a musical advancement/improvement over the aforementioned.?
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Peter Crist
