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Tommy Tedesco
The Guitars Inc: Invitation
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Last week, when I posted on Tommy Tedesco's 1965 album, The Guitars of Tom Tedesco, I included a print ad I had found for Magnatone amps from 1958. The ad featured five guitarists in a recording studio—Al Hendrickson, Howard Roberts, Bill Pitman, Bob Gibbons and Tommy Tedesco. All five appear on the Four Freshmen and Five Guitars album for Capitol. Except the date in the ad copy is October 1958 while the album with the Four Freshmen wasn't recorded until ...
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Tommy Tedesco: Studio Monster
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One reason pop rock sounded so good in the 1960s was because many musicians who appeared on the recordings began as studio jazz musicians in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. They were brilliant sight-readers, understood swing and improvisation, and had the ability to play in any style and add their own twists to give the music lift. One of these gifted session musicians was guitarist Tommy Tedesco. During the 1950s, Tedesco's jazz recordings included albums with Dave Pell, as ...
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Tommy Tedesco's Jazz Quartet & Cocktail Party in Westlake Village California
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All About Jazz