CREATIVE ACCOMPANIMENT OF JIM HALL: USEFUL RESOURCES FOR THE CREATIVE ACCOMPANIMENT WITH JAZZ GUITAR

The majority of the jazz guitarists spend too much time studying melodic lines for improvisation wishing to become good soloist one day. This frantic race towards acquiring complicated language makes us forget the essential role of a guitar, the accompaniment.From a professional point of view this appears counter-productive. In many bands the guitar is needed for it harmonic and accompanying functions. Other instruments of jazz music such as voice, saxophone or trumpet already have this function of soloist defined due to different reasons e.g. cultural, timbre, etc.This research arose from the necessity to look for useful resources which could develop the creative accompaniments of jazz guitar. Currently we can be inspired by many guitar players depending of what we like. In this case, the idea was to look for one of the "fathers" of the jazz guitar in order to get to the root of the matter.Jim Hall is one of the references of the modern jazz guitar. He was playing in diverse formations around his career that could provide us of many ideas to play in different situations (piano-guitar duo, horn-guitar duo, guitar duo, bass-guitar duo and trio with or without piano, etc.) .Listening through Jim Hall ́s discography we will attempt to obtain as much as possible examples of different ways to accompany. Then try to find more than two or three vamps of each one to be transcribed and analyzed.