Mosh-Ups: The Heavy Beauty of Jazz Guitar w/ Alex Skolnick Trio
The beauty of jazz guitar is that a skilled guitarist can take ANY song regardless of genre and make it their own with the right amount of chordal and modal knowledge, but STILL keep things authentically jazzy.
If you were to say, know how to do Joe Pass / Lenny Breau / John Pizzarelli chord melody stuff, you could take an epic rock BEAST of a metal song like Mastodon's "Colony of Birchman" or Corrosion of Conformity's "Albatross" and work them up into wonderful jazz arrangements!
Here we have famed Bay Area thrash metal icon Alex Skolnick (from Testament) taking a couple of Ozzy classics and making them his own through the magic of jazz guitar and a swinging rhythm section.
Bonus Clip: Enjoy the gorgeous chordal workout on Alex Skolnick Trio's version of the Deep Purple classic "Highway Star".
