In this lesson, you’ll learn a single-note solo played by guitarist Bernard Addison, who was born in 1905 and played with a lot of the greats of early jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Fletcher Henderson, Coleman Hawkins, and Jelly Roll Morton, whose 1930 recording of “Fussy Mabel” this solo comes from. Addison started as a banjo player who switched to acoustic guitar and continued playing the acoustic guitar, rather than electric, even into the 1950s and ’60s. He was primarily a rhythm player, but his 1930s recordings with Morton included a lot of solos. He had a huge sound, and an incredible rhythmic facility that allowed him to match the kind of phrasing Armstrong was doing. Matt starts by going over the chord changes to the section Addison played on “Fussy Mabel,” which are the same chord changes as the jazz standard “Tiger Rag.” Then he walks you through Addison’s solo, phrase by phrase.
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"Fussy Mabel" (Available to subscribers)
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