Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

I love Ben Webster & Colman Howkins very much!

My karate teacher made 3 of 60 mintues casette tapes.
1) Jazz Standard Medium tempo
2) Jazz Standard Ballad
3) Jazz Standard Blues

Included
Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Kenny Burrell, Barney Kessel, Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Pat Martino, George Benson and more.

In order to learn jazz, less material (3 records at most) and listen them everyday!
Hope you find those 3 ultimate albums or 3 records work great takes from many records.

Those 3 cassette tape became a great source of my jazz language.

Tomo

My pleasure Jeff! My case is not only 3 albums but 3 0f 60 mins casette tapes. 3 hours of great jazz blues, jazz standards and jazz ballads. I listened those everyday then he asked me which player do you like? I answered "JOE PASS" Untill that point he didnot recommend to listen anyone specific so he really made me to make up my mind. Because he told me that "First influence is super important and it will lives your inside forever whether like or not! That's why he this 3 tapes as a test.

Tomo

I love this Tomo.
Thank you.

My pleasure Sunil!

Tomo

Sometime, I feel, music can slow time down and bring a bit of peace to the mind. Love this, thank you Tomo.
Thinking of phrasing and space, and time.

Love how horns can do dynamics within a note - he has some really nice dotted half notes at the end of some of the phrases. Not sure how to emulate on guitar except by volume swells?

My pleasure! One point I was really studying among Ben Webster, Coleman Hawklins and Johnny Hodges! I have learned about "Feel" "Space" All about phrasing!

Amazing dynamics! These really influenced my picking attack and picking volume! Even volume swell... cannot express Saxphones "Breathe" before each phrases. So amazing!

Tomo

A very unique sound.

Never heard of him.

Tenor sax is great.

-LaVoy

Wow - that's so true Sun Ho. Really busy comping, but doesn't smother anything. I love her voice.

oh wow!! you studied with Tuck Andress! that's so cool.. thank you so much for sharing the video

super cool!! welcome!

tuck was my intro to jazz guitar.

my first guitar teacher, was a jazzer/classical/rocker player in the bay area, i think he took a year of lessons with tuck before he blew up.

rich passed away in oct '24. he was a genuinely great guy. i was his first classical guitar student.

https://www.ohlone.edu/music/profile-richardkendrick

Glad you liked the video. Yes, I studied with him for a few years in the Bay Area when I lived there. Great teacher. I wanted to be good enough to play Earl Klugh type music. My main instrument was a nylon string guitar. Learned a lot.

awesome ace. i just knew about him through what rich told me during our lessons. looking forward to your guitar journey here.

Again, another great player I have never heard of.

-LaVoy

Great video!

Tomo

That album is so fantastic!

Classic live album from Wes! And Full House!

Tomo

I used to transcribe some Mike Stern solos when I was a student at Berklee.

Tomo

feeling this.
loving jim hall too.

what a great long life, overcoming difficult youth, addiction, to reach that level of excellence, is miraculous.

just watched the first few min of this,
sounds right.

he will be remembered for a long time.
one of the greats.

weird i was just reading wikipedia bios of john coltrane and charlie parker yesterday.

watched while i got a walk and a coffee in.
great wisdom for those seeking excellence through slow deliberate daily effort.

like your youtube name nonemlinus :)

Great album choice, Sunil. We've been off the grid for 3 weeks and I've missed these great album call outs.

Thank you Sammi, you remembered!
Folks usually miss it.
It's security by poor obfuscation though haha.

Backwards, forwards, and so many puzzles and patterns since I can remember....
But I feel like I never see the backward spellings on first sight. Bugs me.

Completely unrelated, and maybe this is an anxiety thing, but I am worried about your grandparents.
I hope they are ok, and doing well!
My mom (approaching 80! now) had a few minor accidents at home but my brother is there, and she is ok.
Sorry to mix personal and professional, I know Tomo (wisely) avoids this. Hope Tomo is just taking his regular summer trip home.

The social stuff is kind of like recognizing reversed spelling on first sight for me, I am not the best at it. Music is the key(s?), always. :)

Peace.

Linda I was wondering how your trip is going! But did not want to force you to share, only if you want. Hope NO was awesome! Blues trail looked amazing my friend!

Love this album, and Wes so much. I've been hesitating to put this on the deep listening (Tomo-style DL) list because I keep thinking I should listen to Charlie Christian first but I think the time has come. :)

I am doing all my album listening in itunes and utbe but I always remember your comment (and Tomo's discussions in the book and forums) about habits developed when listening to vinyl: Listen once, pause to pretend to move the needle arm back down after the auto-return.
I need to fit pauses in to flip to B side still though...

Let's keep going!
Because the motion is the lotion!

(The phrase is a constant during my walks, and I've been thinking it applies to all things generally haha.)

If you have Instagram, you'll see that Tomo mixes the professional and personal updates. There are plenty of cat and friends and family photos mixed in with guitar stuff :) No need to worry, Sunil; the grandparents are in good health!

I am so happy to hear that Tomo!
Love it!
To keep going, got to stay healthy!
I am learning. :)