T-Bone Walker (and Dizzy)

Nicolai Foss

In addition to jazz on archtops, I also dig blues on archtops. A particular favorite is T-Bone Walker, who was strongly influenced by Charlie Christian (they busked together). Many of T-Bone’s solos are very jazzy and very delightful. (This is great if you want to get into the T-Bone style, and this is some of T-Bone’s most jazzy playing).

Here is a fun clip from the place where all good music seems to be concentrating, YouTube, with T-Bone playing his Gibson ES-5 and Dizzy humming the blues assisted by the mouthpiece of his trumpet. Is that Teddy Wilson playing the piano?