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FGH-0013: Interview with Joscho Stephan – Gypsy Jazz Guitar Virtuoso

The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty

Release Date: 11/29/2018

FGH 0026: Interview with Peppino D'Agostino - Transcendant Guitarist and Composer

The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty

Summary, Episode 26: A native of Italy, D’Agostino has made his considerable international mark as a musical artist on the guitar since he arrived in America 37 years ago. In 2017 Guitar Player listed him as one of the 50 transcendent superheroes of the acoustic guitar. The CD, “Every Step of The Way,” was awarded by Acoustic Guitar’s People’s Choice Awards with a Bronze medal for Best Acoustic Album of All Time. His signature Seagull acoustic guitar has been voted among the ten best signature guitars by Guitar Player magazine. To date, Peppino has recorded 19 CD’s,...

FGH-0025: Interview with Jon Gomm - Singer Songwriter and Fingerstyle Innovator

The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty

Summary Episode 25: Jon Gomm is a singer songwriter considered to be one of the world’s true virtuoso guitarists possessing a unique style most elite musicians consider revolutionary. Jon was born and continues to live in the North of England. His songs are driven by his use of one acoustic guitar to create drum sounds, basslines and twisting melodies all at the same time with no external effects. The emphasis remains on his soulful vocals and songwriting with his original material influenced by everything from Robert Johnson to Radiohead. His live shows combine deeply personal performances...

FGH-0024: Interview with First Rate German Acoustic Guitarist Thomas Fellow

The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty

Thomas Fellow is a musician with an almost inexhaustible supply of innovative energy. He is a first rate acoustic guitarist,

FGH-0023: Interview with Muriel Anderson - Multi-Dimensional Fingerstyle Champion

The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty

Muriel Anderson is one of the more multi-dimensional guitarists on the

FGH-0022: Interview with Billy McLaughlin - His Historic Comeback

The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty

For twenty years, Billy McLaughlin astounded audiences around the world with his complex and rhythmic music.

FGH-0021: Interview with English Fingerstyle Guitarist Richard Smith

The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty

Richard started playing the guitar at age 5 and has never looked back. Focusing early on with the fingerstyle guitar of Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed, he began transcribing classical music, Jazz, the gypsy style of Django Reinhardt, bluegrass, ragtime and the blues to Sousa marches.

FGH-0020: Interview with Don Alder - Fingerstyle Champion, Composer and Vocalist

The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty

Don Alder plays acoustic fingerstyle guitar with a passion that has quickly earned him a reputation as Vancouver’s “best kept little secret”. Don is a world-class fingerstyle guitarist with a “wow factor” that has let to multiple endorsement deals with major manufacturers and a collaboration with Greenfield guitars to produce a signature acoustic guitar- the “Don Alder G4” model.

FGH-0019: Interview with Don Ross - 2 time National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion & Composer

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In 1988, Don became the first Canadian to win the U.S. National Fingerpick Guitar Championship. He won again in 1996, still the only two-time winner of the competition.

FGH-0018: Interview with Jazz and Country Master Guitarist Jim Nichols

The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty

Jim Nichols has an unusual approach to the guitar - he uses a thumb pick and fingers to play everything from Chet Atkins style to modern jazz.

FGH-0017: Interview with Australian Guitar Virtuoso Michael Fix

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Over the past 25 years, Michael Fix has released fifteen albums, together with several DVD’s, songbooks, singles and EPs, tours internationally each year, and has established himself as one of Australia’s finest guitarists and composers, writing evocative music for television, film and documentaries.

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His roots lie in Gypsy Swing music, the style pioneered in the 1930s by the legendary jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Joscho Stephan has not merely absorbed this music, but also interprets it on the highest level and is actively engaged in extending its boundaries.

He has toured Australia with top guitarists Martin Taylor and Tommy Emmanuel and has performed with his own bands (trio to quintett) on numerous important European festivals (among others in Slovenia, Italy, France, Poland and the UK) and of course on all the important Django Reinhardt Festivals

His debut album was named CD of the month by American Guitar Player magazine in July 2000. In May 2004 Acoustic Guitar magazine wrote that Joscho Stephan represented the future of the Gypsy jazz guitar tradition.

Show Notes:

In this episode Joscho and I chat about his early influences, current projects, guitars, picks, his online Gypsy Jazz Academy, keeping the “fire” in creativity and more…enjoy!

(Time stamps are for audio version of the podcast.)

2:11 Welcome Joscho!
3:20 His interest in different styles & his fathers influence
4:08 Joscho’s early classical guitar lessons
5:00 His interest in improvisation
5:17 Discovering Django Reinhardt
9:38 His philosophy “music is a language”
11:26 We talk about his online school http://gypsyguitaracademy.com
16:12 Joscho gives me (and us) a lesson on 6th chords
21:00 I ask Joscho use the left hand pinky…or just 3 fingers, and why?
27:52 Picks – what’s best for Gypsy Jazz Guitar?
30:28 Joscho talks about his Juergen Volkert D Hole guitar
33:09 His latest direct to disc (as in vinyl) recording
36:10 How the audience’s presence affects the bands sound
37:50 MUSIC TRACK – Joscho, Tommy Emmanuel & his band play “Blues for Tommy”
41:08 Joscho’s “other” playing styles
43:38 What’s in Joscho’s guitar collection?
45:16 He talks about his recording of “Hey Joe” on the “Guitar Heroes” CD (800K youtube views!)
48:23 Joscho’s combination concept for music projects
50:18 What are Joscho’s hobbies outside music?
51:38 How he started collecting vinyl LP’s
53:42 Joscho’s convertible & enjoying it
53:26 We talk about staying healthy & in shape on the road
56:42 Staying “on fire” regarding creativity & attitude
57:39 What advice can Joscho give musicians about practicing, rehearsal & stage performance?
59:40 Practicing technical things vs performance skills, trying new ideas.
1:06:03 Discovering new music online & going to other concerts to listen
1:12:30 MUSIC TRACK – Joscho, Stochelo Rosenberg & his band play “Blues for Stochelo”

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