This is the beautiful tune "Estate" played on an Alto Guitar. The Alto guitar is tuned a 4th down from standard and the middle two strings are tuned up an octave from there. More videos on my website - www.KevinVanSant.com
This is an old tune, but one that lends itself to many interpretations. I think it is currently going through a revival of sorts, I've been hearing it on a lot of recent CDs. The guitar is my Gibson L5 Wes
This is the pretty Horace Silver song called "Peace". The guitar is my D'Angelico Excel 1-DP
...too bad about that botched chord early into it, but I didn't feel like starting over :)
the beautiful tune "Snowfall" played on my L5 through an Acoustic Image Corus amplifier.
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here I am playing the great Dave Brubeck song "In Your Own Sweet Way" on my L5
I ran the amp output directly into the camera mic input as an experiment. The guitar sound breaks up a little bit from the camera's auto-levels but actually it's kind of a decent sound anyway.
From a concert at Birdland59 Jazz Club in Ettlingen, Germany on June 27, 2008
Kevin Van Sant - guitar
Ben Palmer - bass
James Simpson - drums
This song comes from a new Van Sant / Palmer Jazz Duo CD, "Play the Music of Horace Silver" which can be found online at www.KevinVanSant.com