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Robin Banerjee - Honeysuckle Rose [Ska style]

It was nice to produce this for my old friend Robin. We've always related together well musicially as we both have a common interest in funky, groovy and jazzy guitar. A big influence on Robin's playing is George Benson - the perfect example of how to integrate bluesy playing into jazz - Benson was and still is at the top of the tree in his execution of bebop guitar. When Robin joined the London-based band Jazz Jamaica run by Gary Crosby, he learnt that jazz standards can work really well in a Reggae or Ska context. In this video we see Robin playing his seemingly effortless and fluent jazz lines over a Ska groove, following the chord changes of the old jazz standard Honeysuckle Rose, written by Fats Waller. Guitarists often forget to practise the skill of rhythm guitar as they getting pulled away by the attraction of the bright lights of glorious guitar solos - but watch here how Robin holds a very tight rhythm part. For beginner and intermediate players, notice how dampening the strings is a key element when playing this style. The fingers press the strings of the chord but then take the pressure off while still touching the strings... this is an essential rhythm guitar technique also commonly found in Funk, Gypsy Jazz and even Flamenco! One more thing I'd like to mention is, we musicians who first started practising and learning guitar in the 1980s and 1990s used something called the REAL BOOK to be able to get familiar with the chord structures of many famous jazz standards. It was a really useful book to have when turning up at a gig, not having rehearsed, because the melodies and chords were all accurately displayed in a concise format so musicians could all "be on the same page"! If you watch carefully, you can see Robin uses many different chord shapes - it's second nature to him because he's been mastering these shapes for decades... 7ths, 9ths, augmented, diminished, flat 5s... the list goes on! And all his initial intensive practice using literature like the Real Book now pays off with his fluent execution of the Jazz language!