Peghead Nation's Roots of Jazz Guitar Course with Matt Munisteri

In his Roots of Jazz Guitar course on Peghead Nation, Matt Munisteri will teach you how to play the 1920s and ’30s chord melody and rhythm guitar styles of Eddie Lang, Nick Lucas, Freddie Green, Carl Kress, and other early jazz greats. With chord melody solos to popular swing melodies, advanced rhythm guitar techniques, and acoustic jazz picking techniques. This video gives an overview of the course.
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Matt Munisteri is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter based in New York City. A freewheeling and virtuosic guitarist on both acoustic and electric guitar-in music both modern and old-fashioned-he credits the early jazz plectrists of the 1920s and ’30s with providing the foundation for his technique and musical direction. As one of a relatively small number of authoritative acoustic jazz guitarists playing swing and early jazz, Matt has recorded extensively and is a first-call guitarist when a “period” sound is sought for CDs, film scores, and commercials.
He has collaborated with many colleagues in his field on concerts and recordings, including Vince Giordano, Mark O’Connor, Andy Stein, Frank Vignola, Bucky Pizzarelli, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Catherine Russell, Julian Lage, Geoff Muldaur, Loudon Wainwright, Howard Alden, Tim Kliphuis, and Matt Glaser. As an educator and clinician Matt has taught at the Berklee College of Music, the Augusta Heritage Center, the Ashokan Center, and Centrum. He has performed on A Prairie Home Companion, Jazz Night in America: Jazz at Lincoln Center, E-Town, Mountain Stage, and Michael Feinstein’s Song Travels.
Matt’s own recordings include the acclaimed Still Runnin’ Round in the Wilderness, the first of two planned CDs to explore the “lost” compositions of the under-recognized American singer-songwriter Willard Robison, Love Story, It’s Been Swell, and Hell Among the Hedgehogs, a smoking hot twin-guitar CD with the Hot Club of Cowtown’s Whit Smith.
www.mattmunisteri.com

[@marcaskew61]

Wow, it certainly was a distinctive way of playing. Fascinating.

[@andersingram]

wow this is perfect for me ... i would love to learn all those things!

[@Radaep1]

Just saw you on youtube with Mara Kaye & band, wow just love your playing ,love that rhythm on this video from 1m30.

[@merseybeat1963]

Hello what strings are on this guitar here. Guage brand and type, sounds really nice. Flatwound Tomastik type dont really work on this right ? Thank you

[@jasonstewart9752]

What is the name of the song at the end?

[@jesusonazareth4752]

This course looks great. Just in case anyone missed it, TH-cam has a wonderful video of Matt playing an instrumental arrangement of a tune that Nick Lucas sang on record in 1927 called "So Blue." He plays the song in the Lucas / Eddie Lang style, on a recently restored 1937 Gibson Nick Lucas guitar, and he and the guitar sound fabulous. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/eeTNkDyZFrQ/w-d-xo.html

[@JuanHernandez-uq5ld]

Did Matt get a new L5? Curious to hear the story.

[@brownmonkeybananayellow]

From Peghead site:
Matt Munisteri’s 1930 Gibson L-5 Guitar Matt talks about one of his 1930 Gibson L-5 guitars in this video. He discusses the history of the L-5 a bit and how he acquired this particular instrument from TR Crandall Guitars in Manhattan. The guitar had been owned for many years by someone who lived just a few blocks from Matt’s grandfather in Brooklyn, and when Matt had some work done on it he discovered that the great archtop guitar maker John D’Angelico had most likely worked on the guitar, probably replacing the frets, refinishing it, widening the f-holes slightly, slimming the neck, and replacing the fingerboard and tailpiece. It’s serial number is only seven digits away from his main guitar, another L-5, which he’s played since 2000. Matt also talks about some of the other guitars favored by early jazz players and finishes by playing the early jazz classic “Jeannine.”

[@JD-pg1qs]

Who are the other great players in this style? I know Eddie lang, but anyone else modern? Pizzarelli?

[@gospodine]

Check out Whitt Smith, Raymond Nijenhuis, Ben Gateno.

[@displaychicken]

Molly Reeves swings like crazy