JIMMY WYBLE WITH RED NORVO

Jimmy Wyble is one of my favorite guitarists, even though I'm sure I haven't heard
more than five minutes of his playing, and maybe not that much.

This is because of Wyble's bizarrely eclectic career-- he authored many fascinating solo guitar etudes that mixed jazz and classical idioms, and sometimes included
interesting 20th century classical dissonances, but he also played with Bob Wills.
I've got a book of Jimmy's etudes, and they are deadly.

This clip, featuring nowhere nearly enough Wyble, is with Red Norvo, another terrific but often neglected musician who combined accessible swing music with a very advanced
dissonant language. And if that ain't hip, I don't know what hip is.
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