Add to EJ Playlist  I recorded this piece a short time ago as a "solo" duet, playing both parts myself on my Otwin jazz guitar. But how much more fun to get together with my old...

Add to EJ Playlist  I recorded this piece (written in 1935 by Larry Clinton) a short time ago as a "solo" duet, playing both parts myself on my Otwin jazz guitar. But how much m...

Add to EJ Playlist  I recorded this classic piece (written in 1925) some time ago - once as as a "solo" duet, playing both parts myself - and once as a solo fingerstyle piece. B...

Add to EJ Playlist  Dill Pickles - more popularly known as Dill Pickles Rag - was written by Charles Johnson in 1906. I recently did a video session with my duo partner, the hug...

Add to EJ Playlist  The popular version of this was recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1930, after a slightly different, earlier version by Fats Waller in 1929. Music by Doc Daugher...

Add to EJ Playlist  A classic from 1930, written by Fred Hamm, Dave Bennett, Bert Lown, and Chauncey Gray. I usually play it in a duo with my old mate Chris "Wolfie" Wolferstan,...

Add to EJ Playlist  This is an old and very simple traditional English tune, collected by Cecil Sharp and subsequently played around with by Australian composer Percy Grainger. ...

Add to EJ Playlist  I was going through some video footage on my laptop and came across this version of "Eventide" - better known as the hymn tune "Abide With Me". It was record...

Add to EJ Playlist  A classic tune from 1926 written by Irving Berlin and an instant hit from then on. I've played this in bands and small groups for years, but have never tried...

Add to EJ Playlist  I'm using the Paul Denniker/Andy Razaf composition S'posin' - as played by Fats Waller - as the basis for this instructional guitar video. As well as live cl...

Add to EJ Playlist  This is a classic tune from the pens of Paul Denniker and Andy Razaf - composed in 1929 and sung, famously tongue-in-cheek , by the great Fats Waller. I've ar...

Add to EJ Playlist  For Kat - with affection. :-) Another classic from the pen of Harry Warren & Al Dubin - sung originally by Dick Powell in the 1934 film, "Dames". I've put it...

Add to EJ Playlist  A 1937 classic from George Gershwin. It fits nicely under the fingers in D, and I'm allowing the chords to be a little loose and unresolved here and there - ...

Add to EJ Playlist  Sunday afternoon. I've been browsing through my old chord book (400 tunes compiled years ago from books, gigs, other musicians) - just to remind myself of wh...

Add to EJ Playlist  One of my favourite "standards" from 1933, composed by Will Hudson and Irving Mills and first recorded by Joe Venuti and his orchestra. I'm playing it finger...

Add to EJ Playlist  Valentine's Day tomorrow, so an appropriate piece of music! I had a spare 30 minutes this morning so thought I'd whip something up on the electric jazz front...

Add to EJ Playlist  The Tourdion was a French dance, popular in the mid-15th to late 16th centuries. There are various tunes for the dance, but I just know this one, called - ap...

Add to EJ Playlist  I first heard this great tune played at a session by friend and fiddle player Phil. I transcribed it for mandolin (D) and tenor guitar (G) - and I'm playing ...

Add to EJ Playlist  YouTube member Miguel de Santiago watched my solo acoustic guitar version of "Unsquare Dance" and commented, "Can you do "A Taste of Honey" by Paul Desmond?"...

Add to EJ Playlist  Sidney Bechet wrote and recorded this lovely tune in 1952. The version that made a huge impact on us here in the UK was the 1959 recording by the Chris Barbe...

Add to EJ Playlist  One of my favourite records is an album of jazz duos from the 1930s and '40s called "Pioneers of Jazz Guitar", and my favourite track on that album is "Satan...

Add to EJ Playlist  A classic melody by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona from 1929, played here twice through on tenor guitar with a rhythm section accompaniment. I first heard th...

Add to EJ Playlist  When my son was young - many years ago now - we used to watch a BBC children's programme called "The Adventure Game". It was a series of puzzles featuring dr...

Add to EJ Playlist  When I was a kid in the late '40s/early '50s I used to listen to the BBC "Children's Hour" on the bakelite 'wireless', and one of the regular programmes in t...

Add to EJ Playlist  This is a tune composed in 1938 by the French 'bal musette' accordion player and composer Jean Vaissade and recorded by Rina Ketty. Bal musette originated wi...

Add to EJ Playlist  I've loved the music of Jelly Roll Morton for most of my adult life and, many many years ago, bought the Library of Congress recordings, made in 1939 by Alan...

Add to EJ Playlist  I've always loved Hoagy Carmichael's music, and it's a real treat to see and hear him perform "Hong Kong Blues" in the 1944 film "To Have And Have Not". It's...

Add to EJ Playlist  Among my favourite pianists/vocali sts are Nellie Lutcher and Rose Murphy, and "Busy Line" is by Rose Murphy. I used to sing and play this about 40 years ago ...

Add to EJ Playlist  This little tune of mine is dedicated to Bruce & Jeanette - the owners of West Acre House in the Northumberland market town of Alnwick (pronounced 'Annick')....

Add to EJ Playlist  My good friend Ian Gardner played this song to me while I was visiting him recently. I fell in love with it instantly and rushed to learn it the moment I got...