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For 7-string jazz guitarists everywhere, George Van Eps is our patron saint. What we have here is a 1957 collection of band arrangements featuring George on guitar. His tempos are planted firmly within the ballad to medium swing arena, with a couple of solo guitar/combo pieces. His playing is clean and his lines are creative. He employees ...
7. Dez. 1998 · He was 85 and lived in Huntington Beach, Calif. His family said the cause was pneumonia. The seven-string guitar, which Mr. Van Eps helped popularize, allowed him to use his harmonic imagination ...
George Van Eps (August 7, 1913 – November 29, 1998) (often called "the Father of the Seven String Guitar") was an American swing and mainstream jazz guitarist. Noted for his recordings as a leader, and his work as a session musician, Van Eps was also the author of instructional books that explored his approach to guitar-based harmony. He was well known as a pioneer of the seven-string guitar ...
26. Sept. 2023 · The Yazoo LP Fun On The Frets includes the ten Kress-Mottola duets of 1941, the 1936 radio duet of Kress and McDonough on “I’ve Got A Feeling You’re Fooling,” and a George Van Eps studio session from 1949. Those two albums serve as obvious evidence that there were more contributors to the development of early jazz guitar than Eddie Lang, Django Reinhardt, and Charlie Christian.
An amazing and unique jazz guitarist, George Van Eps made his first recording in 1930. He was busy in the 30s playing with Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and recording with many including Red Norvo. In 1939 Van Eps switched to a seven-string guitar that he designed. After World War II Van Eps settled in the Los Angeles area, busy in the film, radio and recording studios.
George Van Eps began playing banjo when he was eleven years old. After hearing Eddie Lang on the radio, he put down the banjo and devoted himself to guitar. By the age of thirteen, in 1926, he was performing on the radio. Through the middle of the 1930s, he played with Harry Reser, Smith Ballew, Freddy Martin, Benny Goodman, and Ray Noble.
George Van Eps was a quiet legend among jazz guitarists, one who as far back as the 1930s pioneered a harmonically sophisticated chordal/lead style that was eclipsed in influence by the single-string idioms of Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. Yet Van Eps, like his brassy colleague Les Paul, also stood apart from them as an iconoclastic inventor, designing a seven-string guitar in the ...
