Acoustic Guitar Magazine | 5 years ago
The legacy of Django Reinhardt is well celebrated, but that’s not quite the case with a guitarist who was also deeply entrenched in the 1930s Paris jazz scene. On either his National tricone or his Selmer grande bouche, Oscar Alemán had an impeccable sense of swing and played with exciting rhythmic punctuations, a horn-like attack, and sharp attention to detail. And unlike Reinhardt, he was an all-round entertainer—singing, dancing, and giving great liveliness to each song he interpreted. In this video lesson from AG's November/December 2019 issue (also available at https://bit.ly/2lNktN6), guitarist Greg Ruby shows how to play Alemán's "You Made Me Love You."
