D'Aquisto's Last Guitar - Leo Larratt
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- Leo Larratt performs "Sweet Lorraine"
Leo Larratt is a jazz guitarist originally from Newcastle, Australia. In Australia, he was mentored by and worked with some of the country's best jazz musicians, including Warwick Alder, Carl Dewhurst, Craig Scott, Steve Brien, and John Harkins. At the age of 23, Leo moved to New York to deepen his knowledge and pursue his passion for jazz. In New York, he has worked with world renowned musicians such as George Coleman, Houston Person, Emmet Cohen, Joe Farnsworth, Benny Benack III, and Konrad Paszkudzki. He was also a private student of the great Russell Malone for two years. Leo's playing is deeply rooted in the tradition of jazz and blues, and he continually strives to bring out his inner voice on his instrument and evolve as a musician.
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1994 D'Aquisto "Centura"
James "Jimmy" D'Aquisto apprenticed under master luthier John D'Angelico in New York City starting in 1952, and eventually came to be considered one of the greatest archtop builders of our time. His guitars have been owned by Jim Hall, Grant Green, Joe Pass, and George Benson, among many others. Now his guitars are coveted by players and collectors all over the world, with two of them even residing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
This guitar, one of his “Centura” models, was the last guitar that D’Aquisto ever built, finished in 1994. The instrument was commissioned by a client of D’Aquisto, who wanted a 7 string guitar. However, by the time he got to building the instrument, he had forgotten this information and built a 6 string instead. D’Aquisto assured the client that he would fix the problem after an imminent trip to California but sadly, he died before he returned home.
This video series invites a handful of New York based musicians to come and explore the instrument, connecting the rich history of Jimmy D’Aquisto’s luthiery to the future of jazz guitar.
The instrument is now under the care of The Blue Guitars/Archtop Foundation, an organization that maintains a very special collection of archtop guitars.
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Filmed, engineered, mixed and edited by David Blake
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Thank you ❤
Bravo!
Beautiful! Guitarist reminds me of “The Deep” from The Boys!
Haha!
Hey, first your playing is immaculate! I subbed. Curious if you can tell me how you mic’d everything?
Thanks for the sub!! Leo is indeed a fabulous player! What you’re hearing is coming through an sm57 pointed straight at the middle of the amp and then two room mics that are about 10 feet away from Leo. They’re panned left and right in the mix but you’re probably getting 95 percent amp mic and 5 percent room! Stay tuned for Roy Ben Bashat on Tuesday
@@davidblakeguitar Gotcha! Thanks!!
Nice playing for sure - but some more detailed info re choice of amp, speaker, mic model + placement etc. would be so helpful for really appreciating the qualities of this guitar. Maybe a short sequence demoing the acoustic sound could also help in forming an opinion and to have an idea about what makes THIS particular guitar differ from later re-creations by Roger Borys, Monteleone, etc. - all those builders who are in some way or another in succession of James D'Aquisto...
Thanks for watching and for your comment! The amp is a blues JR IV special edition with cannabis Rex speaker, and I swapped all the tubes with genelex gold lion. I’ve got a sm57 pointed straight at the amp and two rode small diaphragm condensers capturing the room sound. On some of the videos the room mics are a bit higher in the mix than others. Good question about how this guitar compares to others, I’m not totally sure! I believe at some point Borys was making the laminate boxes for D’Aquisto and I’m not sure if that’s what’s going on here. As for how it compares, you’ll have to bring me some of those guitars so I can record them!
@@davidblakeguitar Jo, good answers, thanks ! I own a Bryant Trenier lam-top modeled after the D'Aquisto design and a Borys lam-top will be mine this fall, when he is done with finishing his current batch. You'd be surprised by the acoustic volume and tone of the Trenier !
@@christianlassen3948 I’ve heard treniers guitars a few times. Beautiful Instruments!! A teacher and friend of mine has one of borys’ jazz solids that I used to play a lot and loved that instrument. My brother d’arcy (of d’arcy guitars) is working on a lam right now that will be finished in a couple months. Will surely be posting some videos of it!
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Loaded with a Guild HB?
Good question! Perhaps @theblueguitars knows?