POST #047 Robben Ford on Traditional Jazz Guitar Tone

“I love blues guitar because of the sound of the instrument but, for the more interesting harmonic element, I’ve always listened to tenor saxophone: Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp and Pharaoh Sanders. I never listed to jazz guitarists very much, I found the sound to be all the same: big-bodied guitar: rhythm pickup: dark, warm wound. Everybody played that way! But with blues guitar there’s a whole range of different sounds”. – Robben Ford

(Robben Ford gets some bluesy swagger and ballsy tones out of his Tele - Ed)