The year of Gypsy Jazz?

[nivram106]

Hello All
Does anyone have any further info on Hanks Gypsy Jazz album?

A very Hapy new year to all

[Fenderman]

I was wondering the same thing, it looks like no record company has picked it up yet.
Ah well, theres always next year!

[GoldenStreet]

I don't know what the position is with Hank and Polydor these days, but, if the option exists, it seems that label may well consider the demand insufficient to justify the investment in a musical genre too far removed from the established Hank/Shads fanbase in the commercial market.

Bill

[geoff1711]

I would think there'd be more demand for Hank plays Blues or Hank plays Rock

[JimN]

I would think there'd be more demand for Hank plays Blues or Hank plays Rock

Talking of "Hank Plays Rock", there's a track on a Steve Wariner album ("Guitar Laboratory"; 2011) which sounds uncannily like Hank in his "Into The Light" days.

The song is A Groove (pronounced "Ey Groove") and you can hear a 30s sample here: http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/steve-wariner/album/guitar-laboratory/track/a-groove

It's also on Spotify.

Steve describes the song thus:

The impetus of this song was the open string, chromatic finger roll that continues throughout. You don’t necessarily think of this type of groove having finger rolls. It may seem a little out of sorts, but I think it works here.

While it’s possible that I’m considered primarily a tele style player, on this one I actually got out my ’60 stratocaster that I bought from my brother Terry years ago. It really is a fine instrument. I played through one of my very favorite amps, too--my black-face Fender deluxe with analog tape delay.

John Jarvis, David Hungate and John Gardner were the rhythm section. They sure played some brilliant parts. I believe out there in cyber world there’s a video clip of this track being recorded.

Let's see... 1960 Strat... tape delay... small valve amp...

No wonder...

See what you think.

JN

[Dance with Shadows]

Jim,

Not sure of your point. I listened to the sample and this guy does a lot of string snapping (not sure whether that is the correct term for plucking strings with your fingers and letting the string snap back). Is that a technique used by Hank? I can't recall any examples. Hank when he uses hybrid picking does not snap the strings, at least that's how it seems to me.

Have I misunderstood you?

Michael

[JimN]

Not sure of your point.

Purely that whilst it is common to encounter music based on the early Shadows sound, and not at all uncommon to hear music based on the later Shadows "cover version" period (the Polydor years), it's rare to hear recordings so similar to the sound of Hank's Polydor solo years of the 1990s. A Groove by Steve Wariner could be an out-take from "Into The Light".

JN

[donna plasky]

Wouldn't it be great to have an album and a tour like this video? I guess this was a one-time thing, but I would love to see these folks perform together...even if it meant having to listen to Gypsy Jazz.

Kind regards,
Donna

[howarddobson]

There seems to be a website on the way

http://hankmarvingypsyjazz.com/

[Fenderman]

Looks like we'll never see Hank with his red Strat again. He's totally into this Gypsy Jazz scene it seems.