Check out! My article on Carl Kress in the september-2019 issue of the Swedish guitar magazine “Guitar & Lute” (#3 /2019). Enjoy! Link: Complete SGLS article (in swedish)
50´s record covers that was the inspiration to our CD cover:
Biography about the legendary jazz guitar player Billy Bean, published by Midoriyama Publishing, November 2013. One of the top bebop jazz guitar players! The book documents Bean’s professional career with Charlie Ventura, John Pisano, Bud Shank, John Lewis, and Herbie Mann. Additionally, the book explores his personal struggles with alcoholism and changes in the music scene. Buy it – lots of musical analyses, arrangements & compositions!
Carl Kress – LP “Guitar Stylist” (1953) – discography
Back cover liner notes, of the “Guitar Stylist” record (1953)
Eddie Lang Guitar Methods! Buy them as PDF files from Django Books (under Media/Books/ebooks)! Link: django books
Eddie Lang biography & discography in British magazine “B(anjo)M(andolin)G(uitar)”, March 1943-March 1945! Lasting for 24 months (=24 issues, 1-2 pages per issue!), making it one of the most thorough and longlasting articles written on any guitarist in any magazine! Here I show only 7 pages!:
Famous guitarists, articles taken from Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, no 11 Nov 1943, no 4 April 1941, no 5 May 1946 – false Bunn obituary!
Reuss folio 1930-40´s (two of the compositions – “Apartment G” & “Pet Shop” written in 1938), Teagarden/Gibson ad Downbeat 1939, Gibson catalogue 1937
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Estrad”, Oct-1944; Teddy Bunn, obituary withdraw, OJ June 1946 – Bunn lived until 1978!
Link to this Syncopated Times issue – click on picture above!
Kress articles in the english magazine “B.M.G.”(“Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar”, published between 1903-1976): May 1945 – Kress biography and review of the Mottola duet record 1941; Nov 1953 – review of the 1953 “Stylist” record!
Great banjo homepage (“Classic-Banjo.ning.com”) with downloadable and searchable PDF versions of all vintage B.M.G. magazines! Click on picture above/link!
(BMG issues June 1945, Feb 1949, Aug 1950)
For those of you who do not have the time to scrutinize hundreds of pages of articles on banjo, mandolin etc, here are some of the best & “jazziest” issues of BMG! (guitarists not subject to this homepage):
BMG above: Nov 1952, April 1956, July 1958, May 1959, Aug 1959
BMG above: Farlow Dec 1959, Montgomery April 1962, René Thomas May 1965, Dave Goldberg June 1965, Ike Isaacs Feb 1973
New Carl Kress record 2024! (Streaming or downloading only)
The tracks on the Kress record above can be found on an earlier CD produced 2005, named “Adrian Rollini Trio, Quartet and Quintet 1936-1947” (VMP: Vintage Music Productions)! This particular session was recorded as Adrian Rollini Quintet, 1938 (World Transcription Service). One track – “Caressing” is only on the new Kress record! The track “Palesteena” is titled “Untitled” on the Adrian Rollini record!
Hy White – “Guitar Digest”, 1944! A rarity!
Michele Di Filippo, Italian classical guitar player, recently released a CD with the “Complete Works for Guitar, by Albert Harris” (Brilliant Cl., Rome, Italy, 2023). The record consists of 23 tracks, among them Sonatina, Suite, Variations on Haendel theme, Fantastic Dances, written between 1950-1988 in USA. See great home-page, with info on the composer and the different pieces!:
Link: https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/h/harris-complete-works-for-guitar
The composer’s best-known guitar composition, the “Variations & Fugue on a Theme by Haendel“ is dedicated to the great guitarist Andrés Segovia, who was the first to record it, in 1968!:
Link Segovia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUqVQkqnFp0
Keith Barnhart, American classical guitarist, in 2019 released a recording of works by Harris, being his graduation thesis! 27 tracks, not exactly the same as Filippo´s record: Barnhart has omitted the “Intermezzo”, and the three “Fantastic Dances”, but has included eight “Variations on a theme by Mussorgsky”(the theme being “Pictures at an Exhibition”)! (Available on Spotify)
Notice!: The CD:s above is classical guitar work, not jazz! Jazz guitar records of Albert Harris are from the mid 1930´s, recorded in London! To my knowledge there exists only seven guitar solo recordings with Harris, 1934-35: five duets with Ivor Mairants, and Bert Thomas, and two recordings with a guitar quintet, including Ivor Mairants.
(Pictures taken from British magazine “B(anjo)M(andolin)G(uitar)”, Dec 1936, photo collage of British top guitar players that year!)
Albert Harris / Ivor Mairants jazz guitar duets, London 1935; the “Rarities” CD:s produced 2003 for IAJRC (International Association of Jazz Record Collectors!)
Three of the players in the guitar quintet mentioned above – Stutely, Harris, Mairants (picture from British music magazine “Melody Maker”, 1937).
Mairants meets Albert Harris in Hollywood 1970, British magazine “B(anjo)M(andolin)G(uitar”, May 1970)!
Epiphone ads, from Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, no 11 Nov 1938, no 3 March 1937.
Mairants in conversation with George Van Eps 1970, British magazine “B(anjo)M(andolin)G(uitar”, Sept 1970)!:
Jazz Guitar articles in Swedish jazz magazine “Orkesterjournalen” between 1950-1962 (guitarists not subject to this homepage):
Jazz Guitar history: OJ Oct-1955; Billy Bauer: OJ Nov-1950
Charlie Byrd: OJ Dec-1962; Tal Farlow OJ Sept-1952; Chuck Wayne: OJ April-1952
Barney Kessel: OJ April-1953; Kay Guitars ad: OJ Nov-1958
Jimmy Raney: OJ Dec-1954; Johnny Smith ad: OJ Oct-1962
Jazz Guitar Duets 
