13 Facts About Jazz guitarist

1.

Jazz guitarist had experimented with wax cylinders ten years earlier.

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2.

Jazz guitarist became the first person to have a custom guitar named after him, the Gibson Nick Lucas Special.

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3.

Jazz guitarist drew attention to himself while he was a member of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and as a popular studio musician.

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4.

Jazz guitarist was born in Belgium to a gypsy family.

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5.

Jazz guitarist played a Gibson ES-150 arched-top which Gibson had started producing a couple years before.

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6.

Jazz guitarist had large audiences when he played solos with passing chords.

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7.

Jazz guitarist claimed to be the first electric guitarist and the first to record with an electric guitar, on March 1,1938, in sessions with blues guitarist Big Bill Broonzy fifteen days before Eddie Durham recorded with the Kansas City Five.

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8.

Jazz guitarist used many diverse elements of music, including closed voicings, flamenco-style guitar, use of varied rhythms, fingered harmonics, modal jazz harmony, an intimate knowledge of inversions and tritone substitutions, and a great understanding of bebop.

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9.

Jazz guitarist created possibilities on guitar through the use of electronic effect units.

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10.

Jazz guitarist established his name in the 1970s as a busy studio musician who recorded with acts in many genres.

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11.

Jazz guitarist adapts to guitar the Hammond B3 organ grooves of Jimmy Smith and Larry Young.

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12.

Jazz guitarist refused to play chords, calling himself a horn player, which is where he got his inspiration.

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13.

Jazz guitarist belonged to the Spontaneous Music Ensemble in the 1970s.

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