Jonathan Stout and Romain Vuillemin play Body and Soul on the Blue Guitars from the Chinery Collecti

Описание: Hey guys, here is the last video on the Blue Guitar Collection I’ve recorded in the Usa. We’re playing the standard from 1930 called "Body and Soul" composed by Johnny Green.

AS I mentioned before I went to play at the Django in June festival on the east coast with my 4tet (Romain Vuillemin Quartet) and with Génération Django; i was happy to see that Jonathan (the other biggest acoustic archtop nerd on this side of the hemisphere) was also performing there. A good vintage archtop session was in sight.

But a few weeks before i went, the guys from the Archtop Fundation contacted me : they bought Scott Chinery's famous Blue Archtop collection and they want to guitars to do what they do best : PLAY ! They offer to bring me part of the collection at my gig ! It started when Scott Chinery custom ordered a guitar to the great Jimmy D'Aquisto : it needed to be a specific blue color, and be 18 inches full acoustic archtop. After his death, Scott commissioned about 20 of the best luthiers out there at the time (1996) to build their version of the Blue Guitar (Comins, Collings, Monteleone, Benedetto, Buscarino just to name a few). Please visit their website at TheBlueGuitars.com or on Instagram @theblueguitars

Jonathan Stout is like me, a huge fan of vintage swing and the acoustic archtop guitars that people playing this music were playing back in the days. One of his main influences is Allan Reuss who played acoustic archtops in a very specific chord melody style he came up with. You can follow Jonathan on instagram @campusfive

I'm happy to introduce these 2 insane guitars on the channel :
Jonathan is playing a Benedetto La Cremona Azzurra, with a Blue Chip TD 40 pick (approx 1mm)
I'm playing a Monteleone Rocket Convertible, with a gator Dunlop 0.71mm pick.
Both guitars are strung with Elixir NanoWeb 12-53, and the sound is captured by 2 dpa 4099g, a bluebird and a Neumann TLM 103 microphone.

I Hope you'll have as much fun listening that we've had recording. Please share and subscribe for more.

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I've decided to take a couple of student for online classes so hit me up if you're interested. Contact and info : [email protected]

I haven't recorded albums in the style of those acoustic standards, but i have 2 albums on bandcamp with my Django tribute Quartet : https://romainvuilleminquartet.bandca...
The third one "Three sides of a Coin" is just out, so don't hesitate to drop me an email if you'd like a physical copy, i can ship worldwide !!

We’ve just recorded an album with a lot of these standards with piano, doublebass and drums so make sure to pre-order your copy.

I also have a youtube channel for the Django stuff with my 4tet :    / @romainvuillemin  

Please share, subscribe and keep swinging !
Romain