Ok, back in town a couple hours ago. We had a nice Thanksgiving, entertaining at home, with lots of guitar playing during the day. Then Friday, we went down to Salt Lake City to enjoy the holiday sights and do a little holiday shopping. We stayed at the Grand America Hotel, owned by the same owners as Sun Valley, where I was enjoying my R&R SV benefit for loyal employment before it expired in a week or so after I held on to it for almost five years. I earned it for five years, and my 10 year hiring anniversary is in a few weeks.
I am attaching the chords that Joshua Payne, a jazz trio player, gave me for his trio arrangement of Christmastime is Here, in F, instead of in E as the other example posted in another thread. His trio was playing at the Sunday Brunch we attended. Yum! Amazing brunch, and nice jazz. Just posting The arrangement because I thought it was cool he took time to write it out. I went and chatted the trio up at a break, as I was enjoying it so much. A nice sounding arrangement. The stand up bass player carried the bass lines, so Joshua said this might sound spare on solo guitar. Nonetheless, I love jazzy chords, and think they sound great in holiday tunes. He was playing a 1947 Epiphone Emperor (hollowbody archtop) though a little acoustic/pa amp. Kind of a trapeze style tail piece and some vintage, D'Armond (sp?) pickup, that looked kind like a clip on with a light of some kind on it. Both the top, and jumbo back quite arched, and finished essentially clear, that has yellowed with the years to a honey amber. I bet it is worth a bunch. Sounded warm and nice. I thought he could bring himself up a tad in the mix, but . . . ;-)
It was a nice weekend. I was not impressed with SLC guitar shops, sad to say. Though I did pick up some picks for my daughter, and a set of strings for my Martin at a pretty nice acoustic shop.
Last edited by sunvalleylaw; November 30th, 2009 at 09:27 AM.
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
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