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Johnny Smith - Nobody Plays Jazz Guitar Solos Better

Article Category: Entertainment

Author Name: Steven Herron

Past history has it that jazz guitar player Johnny Smith chose the instrument at age 5, initially encouraged by his father who was a five-string banjo player, and turned out to be accomplished on the violin, viola, and trumpet as well as the guitar. He also called Chuck Wayne, Jimmy Raney, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Pat Martino, Jim Hall, and Harry Leahey as single-line jazz guitarists he appreciated.

Johnny Smith is one of the initial virtuosos of the electric guitar. From the sweeping three octave runs of "Moonlight in Vermont," "Tea for Two," and "Easy Living," to the lightning quick articulate solos that distinguish "Tabu," "Jaguar," "I'll Remember April," "Un Poco Loco," "Samba," "'S Wonderful," "Tickle Toe," "Three Little Words," and "Time After Time," Johnny Smith's complex yet listenable single note jazz guitar improvisations are the stuff of legend in the history of guitar lore - jazz or otherwise.

Exacting preciseness and technique expertise have long been characteristics of the Johnny Smith jazz guitar methodology, nevertheless these aspects have always been held in check by his feeling of taste and clearness. Jazz guitar legend Barney Kessel once summed it up nicely along with the now famous observation: "No one in the entire world plays the guitar better than Johnny Smith.".

Johnny Smith is among the most unique jazz guitar chord melody stylists in any type of genre. His rich pianistic sonorities and elaborate block chord playing are music trademarks and very different from other guitarists of that period. Think of the jazz chord voicings of pianists Art Tatum and George Shearing combined with the impressionistic harmonic colors of Claude Debussy, recognized and performed on an electric guitar, and you have a hint of how Johnny Smith transformed the instrument. Hereof, he has constantly been in a distinctive class of his own.

Quintessential jazz guitar chord melody excerpts in Johnny Smith's Royal Roost catalog include "Moonlight in Vermont," "Yesterdays," "When I Fall in Love," "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," "You Don't Know What Love Is," "Villa," "I Remember Clifford," "My Romance," and "The Lady Is a Tramp." An early reading of "Autumn Leaves" discovers Johnny Smith creating a flamenco inspired atmosphere along with spectacular arabesques, double-timed passage work, and classically inspired chords on acoustic guitar. And the unusual chiming harmonics in the theme of "It Never Entered My Mind" make the recording worth the price of admission alone.

In retrospect, an incongruous Royal Roost record like "The Man With The Blue Guitar" seems an apparent expression of Johnny Smith's wider musical pallet. This 1962 record album found him in a solo guitar context for an entire album spinning his plectrum magic along with an assorted collection of standards, classical, and folk pieces. Here his lovely tone, sensitive touch, and methodology on the guitar are aimed at popular show songs by Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin, and others, contemporary pieces by Debussy, Scriabin, and Ravel, and novel arrangements olden folk music tunes like "Shenandoah" and "Black is the Color Of My True Love's Hair." Additional proof of Johnny Smith's eclectic nature was flaunted on his "Phase 2" record album (Verve Records) of the sixties. This "jazz" record album featured the master's take on atypical pop tunes like "Exodus," "Don't Sleep in the Subway Darling," "This Guy's In Love With You," "Sunny," and The Doors' "Light My Fire.".

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