Ever been in a love-hate relationship?

Lango-Django

Good question, Andrew. I'll have to ask my luthier next time I see him...

Jazzaferri

Nice job Will.....looks great.

Lango-Django

OK, not sure if I'm beating a dead horse here, but I'm attaching a recent MP3 of my wonderful guitar from a February gig...

Don't know if anybody else out there faces with the frustration of playing lead with no rhythm guitar backing you, but it's a whole different feel!

I've gotten to the point where I can manage single note solos for slow and medium tempo tunes, but for faster ones I find that chord melody style works a lot better.

Plus, oh yeah, if you are a dedicated pompe-er you may not dig my Lang-Influenced rhythm style...

Will

Jojo

A great last note! How come you don't have a rhythm guitarist?

Bones

Sounds great Will! Thanks for posting

Lango-Django

Thanks, Jojo. You asked a good question which deserves a good answer.

There are several reasons our group doesn't have a rhythm guitar...

- due to our virtuoso clarinet/sax leader's unusual style, our trio is actually more of a twenties vaudeville jazz act than anything else. While we do play some jazz standards and Django tunes, our normal thing is more about obscure pop tunes from the 20's and 30's, harmony singing, etc.

- on about half of our numbers I play the plectrum (CGBD) banjo

- it's hard enough getting work for a trio, never mind a quartet!

- when we do numbers that use the guitar, I actually am the rhythm guitarist and I enjoy attempting to play a kind Eddie Lang-ish style rhythm.

- after playing together in this trio combination for about ten years, we are kind of locked in with each other's styles to the point where most outsiders just don't have the right feel to fit in.

- if we could find another guitarist or pianist crazy enough to want to play all the obscure crazy stuff that our band plays, then we might consider adding another member... But for better or worse, that doesn't seem very likely to happen soon!

Will

BillDaCostaWilliams

Will, I really like the sound of the guitar on the clip you posted.

After reading your explanation to Jojo I'm rather intrigued by your trio's rationale - sounds like a lot of fun. Any songlist available of your repertoire of obscure pop tunes from the 20's and 30's?

Lango-Django

Thanks, Bill. I'm glad you like it.

Since you asked about our tunes, I've cut and pasted a tune list below. Sorry, I couldn't get rid of the alphanumerical codes on the left.

A01 Angry Bb
A02 Avalon F
A03 Ain't Misbehavin' C
A04 A Night in Tunisia Dm
A05 Am I Blue? F
A06 Animal Crackers Bb
A07 Ain't that a grand and glorious... G
B01 Back Home in Indiana F
B02 Back in your own back yard Eb
B03 Because My Baby... F
B04 Bei Mir Bist Du Schon Am
B05 Bessie Couldn't Help It Eb
B06 Best Things in Life Are Free C
B07 Bill Bailey F
B08 Black Bottom Eb
B09 Blue Room F
B10 Body and Soul Db
B11 Brother Can You Spare...? Cm
B12 Button… Overcoat C
B14 Bye Bye Blackbird F
B15 Bee in your Boudoir D
B16 Betty Boop Song C
B17 Broadway Melody Eb
B18 Between Devil & Deep Blue... C
B19 Blues Serenade Bb
B20 Blue Skies Em
B21 Bench in the Park, A C
B22 Begin the Beguine C
C01 Changes C
C02 Charleston Bb
C03 Charlie My Boy C
C04 Chicago F
C05 Clap Hands, Here Comes... C
C06 Clarinet Marmalade F
C07 Clementine from New Orleans G
C08 Crazy Rhythm F
C09 Crazy Words G
C10 Cheek to Cheek Bb
C11 Cheerful Little Earful F
C12 Cherokee Bb
C13 Cryin' for the Carolines Em
C14 Cause I Feel Low Down Fm
C15 Chinnin' & Chattin' w. May F
C16 Crazy People C
C17 Cottage for Sale Eb
C18 Copenhagen Bb
C19 Continental, The D-G
D01 Deed I Do Bb
D02 Deep Henderson F
D03 Digga Digga Do Dm
D04 Dinah Eb
D05 Doctor Jazz Eb
D06 Doin the New Lowdown C
D07 Doin' the Racoon C
D08 Don't Be That Way C
D09 Don't Bring Lulu C
D10 Don't We Get Along C
D11 Deep Purple C
D12 Douce Ambience Gm
D13 Down Among Sugar Cane C
D14 Dew-dew-dewy Day F
E01 Everybody Loves My Baby F
E02 Everything I Have is Yours C
E03 Easy to Love G
F01 Fifty Million Frenchmen G
F02 Five Foot Two C
F03 Flamin' Mamie Bb
F04 From Monday On Bb
F05 Fascinatin' Rhythm Eb
F6 Funny Face C
F7 Fidgety Feet Bb-Eb-Ab
F8 Flying Down to Rio
G01 Get Happy Eb
G02 Get Out & Get Under... F
G03 Ghost of a Chance C
G04 Go Home & Tell Mother G
G05 Gold Digger's Song C
G06 Got a Great Big Date F
G07 Girlfriend, The C
G08 Golden Gate Medley C
G09 Girl from Ipana, The F
G10 Gay Love C
H01 Happy Days Are Here... C
H02 Happy Feet Cm
H03 Happy Landings F
H04 Hard Hearted Hannah Eb
H05 Harlem Noctorne Em
H06 He's the Last Word F
H07 Hello Baby C
H08 Hello Beautiful C
H09 Hello Bluebird G
H10 Here I Am G
H11 Hobo's Prayer Eb
H12 How Could RR Hood F
H13 He's a Son of the South
H14 Hello, I Must Be Going Bb
H15 How Many Times? F
I01 I Ain't Got Nobody F
I02 I Can't Believe That You're... Eb
I03 I Can't Get Started C
I04 I Found a Million $ Baby F
I05 I Found a New Baby F
I06 I Get the Blues G
I07 I Got a Right to Sing... F
I08 I Love Me G
I09 I Love My Baby F
I10 I Never Knew F
I11 I Wanna Go Where U Go G
I12 I Want to Be Happy C
I13 I'm Comin' Virginia C
I14 I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby Eb
I15 I'm Gonna Charleston... Eb
I16 I'm in the Market for You Eb
I17 I'm Just a Vagabond Lover Bb
I18 I'm More Than Satisfied F
I19 I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling Eb
I20 I've Got Five Dollars Eb
I21 I've Got the World On a String Eb
I22 If I Can't Have You G
I23 If I Had You G
I24 Is She My Girlfriend? Eb
I25 It All Depends on You C
I26 It Don't Mean a Thing... Gm
I27 It's the Girl F
I28 I Only Have Eyes C
I29 It's a Million to One… Bb
I30 I've got my love to keep... Eb
I31 I'm beginning to STL F
I32 I Surrender, Dear Bb
I33 I would do most anything… Eb
I34 I Like To Do Things For You F
I35 I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now F
I36 I Had Someone Else… Bb
I37 I Have to Have You C
I38 I'm sure of… but you G
J01 Jazzbo Brown Bb
J02 Jehrico Eb
J03 Just a Gigolo G
J04 Just You, Just Me F
J05 Jeepers Creepers G
J06 Jeeves & Wooster F
K01 Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now C
K02 Kiss to Build on Dream On C
L01 Let a Smile... F
L02 Let's Do It Bb
L03 Let's Misbehave C
L04 Lester Leaps In Bb
L05 Little Coquette C
L06 Little Girl Bb
L07 Livin' in the Sunlight F
L08 Lonesome Lover G
L09 Louise Eb
L10 Lovable and Sweet Eb
L11 Lila C
L12 Little Orphan Annie F
L13 Lucky Lindy F
L14 Let's talk… my sweetie
L15 Life is… bowl cherries Eb
M01 Make My Cot Where… Eb
M02 Makin' Whoopie F
M03 Man From the South Em
M04 Mary G
M05 Masc. Women, Fem. Men G
M06 Milenberg Joys F
M07 Miss Annabelle Lee Eb
M08 Moanin' Low F
M09 Moanin' Saxophone Rag G
M10 Moonlight in Vermont Eb
M11 Moten Swing Ab
M12 Music Goes Round & Round C
M13 My Baby Just Cares For Me F
M14 My Baby Said 'Yes, Yes' Eb
M15 My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds F
M16 My Cutie's Due at Two... Bb
M17 My Kinda Love F
M18 My Sunday Girl F
M19 My Suppressed Desire F
M20 Mimi Bb
M21 Magnolia F
M22 Medicine Man for the Blues Bb
M23 Mysterious Mose Dm
M24 My Silent Love Eb
M25 My sweet tooth says… F
M26 My One & Only Gm
M27 My Pet F
M28 My…. Tennessee Eb
M29 My sweetie… me down F
N01 Nagasaki C
N02 Nice Work if You Can Get It F
N03 Nobody Lied F
N04 Nobody's Sweetheart F
N05 Nuages G
N06 Nighthawk Blues Bb
N07 Never Swat a Fly F
O01 Oh, Sister Ain't That Hot? C
O02 One Hour With You G
O03 One Sweet Letter from You Eb
O04 Orange Blossom Rag Bb
O05 Outside C
O06 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit F
O07 Out of the Dawn F
O08 Out of Nowhere G
P01 Paper Moon G
P02 Pardon Me, Pretty Baby C
P03 Poor Papa G
P04 Pretty Girl is Like a Melody F
P05 Puttin' on the Ritz Fm
P06 Precious Little Thing (A)… Eb
P07 Painting the Clouds F
P08 Petite Fleur Gm
P09 Please Bb
R01 Red, Red Robin F
R02 Reefer Madness F
R03 Riverboat Shuffle Eb
R04 Ready for the River G
R05 Reefer Man C
R06 Rhythm King F
R07 Red Hot Mama C
R08 Rose of Picardy Bb
R09 Rosy Cheeks C
S01 Sadie Green F
S02 Sax-o-phobia Bb>Eb>Ab
S03 Sax-o-phun Bb or C
S04 Shakin' the Blues Away Eb
S05 She's a Great, Great Girl F
S06 Sing Sing Sing Cm
S07 Sing, You Sinners F
S08 Singin' in the Bathtub F
S09 Singin' in the Rain F
S10 Sittin’ On Top of the World Eb
S11 Some of These Days G
S12 South Eb
S13 Sposin' Eb
S14 Stay Out of the South G
S15 Steppin’ in Society C
S16 Stumbling F
S17 Sugar (My Sugar) Eb
S18 Sugar (That's What I'll Name U) F
S19 Sunday C
S20 Sunny Side of the Street C
S21 Sunny Side Up C
S22 Sweepin' the Clouds Away Eb
S23 Sweet and Hot Eb
S24 Sweet Georgia Brown F
S25 Sweet Jenny Lee G
S26 Sweet Lorraine F
S27 Sweet Sue G
S28 Swing That Music Bb
S29 Shuffle Off to Buffalo C
S30 Say, Who is That Baby Doll F
S31 Sentimental Baby G
S32 Singapore Sorrows Ab
S33 Sister Kate C
S34 So you can fool me some more C
S35 Sugar ( I call my baby my sugar) F
S36 Struttin' w/some BBQ F
S37 S'Wonderful Eb
S38 Someday… say OK
S39 Sweet Child G
T01 T'aint No Sin... Am
T02 Talking Picture of You Eb
T03 Ten Cents a Dance Eb
T04 That's My Weakness Now C
T05 There's a Rainbow 'Round... G
T06 Tickle Toe Db
T07 Tiptoe Through the Tulips Eb
T08 Toot Toot Tootsie C
T09 Turn On The Heat Ab
T10 Tellin' it to the Daisies G
T11 This is the Missus Bb
T12 Through! F
T13 That's A-Plenty Dm
T14 Tiger Rag Bb
T15 Them There Eyes C
T16 Thinking of You Eb
T17 True Blue Lou C
U01 Ukulele Lady F
V01 Varsity Drag C
W01 Wah-Wah Gal Bb
W02 Walkin' My Baby... Eb
W03 When I Take My Sugar 2 T F
W04 When You're Smilin' Bb
W05 When Your Lover Has Gone F
W06 Would You Like to... Walk? Eb
W07 Wrap Your Troubles Bb
W08 What Is This Thing...? C
W09 Weary River Eb
W10 When Banana Skins... Bb
W11 What is it? F
W12 We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye C
W13 Without That Gal Dm
Y01 You Brought a New Kind... Eb
Y02 You Don't Like It… Bb
Y03 You'll Do It Someday F
Y04 You're the Cream in… Eb
Y05 You've Got Me Pickin' Petals... Bb
Y06 You're Driving Me... F
Y07 You Took Advantage... C
Y08 You're Getting... Habit G
Y09 You Were Meant for Me F
Y10 You Ought to be in Pictures C
Y11 Yours Sincerely F
Y12 You've Got That Thing Eb
Y13 Yes, Sir! That's My Baby (Eb)

Buco

There are some hilarious titles there.

Elí Saúl

When Banana Skins hahaha!

That's a really extense repertoire! I hope someday have as much of pieces on my head