Frank Vignola is considered to be among the top rank of guitarists
on the music scene today. Born on December 30, 1965, in Long Island, New
York, he began playing guitar at the age of five. As his proficiency grew,
he spent many hours listening to the music of legendary guitarists, Django
Reinhardt, Joe Pass, and Johnny Smith. Frank not only gained a spiritual
sort of inspiration from these guitarists recordings, he also made an
intricate study of the complexities of these guitar masters styles, slowing
down his records to analyze many a solo.
Frank’s first teacher was his father, a
semi-professional banjo player. Later, Frank became the star pupil of
guitarist Jimmy George, who was one of the original Dion and the Belmonts.
At age 12, Frank took up the tenor banjo and swiftly burst upon the music
scene in a way that would portend many of the accolades and milestones to
come in his career as a jazz guitarist.
Though obviously steeped in the traditional schools of
jazz, especially in the formative years, Frank would ultimately take
inspiration from a wide arc of the musical spectrum. Guitarists such as
Django, Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery and Lonnie Johnson are obvious
influences, but one might be surprised to learn that rocker Jimi Hendrix has
also received the close scrutiny of Frank’s ear. Louis Armstrong, Lester
Young, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker, Sonny Stitt, Antonio Carlos Jobim,
Thad Jones and Duke Ellington have all had inspirational impact on the music
of Frank Vignola.
While still in his teens, Frank experienced the most
effective music education possible—right on the bandstand as a working
musician. Soon named among the top ranked musicians in New York, Frank
performed and toured with such headliners as Max Morath and Leon Redbone. At
age 23, he decided to lead his own group and formed his version of the famed
Quintet of the Hot Club of France. Their debut at the New York cabaret,
Michael’s Pub, was a smash success and launched his career as a guitarist
‘in the spotlight.’ Tours of Europe, recording sessions, and an exclusive
recording contract with the Concord Jazz label would all follow in short
succession in a few short years. Frank would perform and/or record with such
varied artists as Chet Atkins, Madonna, Jon Faddis, Woody Allen, Ringo
Starr, Manhattan Transfer, Frank Wess, Elvin Jones, Lionel Hampton and
countless legends from the golden age of jazz.
Currently, Frank Vignola is the guitarist with the Mark
O Conner Trio’s tribute to Stephane Grappelli and also performs every Monday
night with the Les Paul Trio at the Iridium in New York City. Frank is also
the new guitarist in John Lewis’ new group Evolution.
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Frank Vignola - Inversion
Excursion - DVD
A monster player and composer, Frank Vignola's work with everyone from Les
Paul to Donald Fagen (Steely Dan) make him the perfect guide for this intensive exploration
of chord inversions! Inversion Excursion will exponentially increase your chord, comping and rhythm pattern vocabulary. Instead of simply memorizing chord forms
from a book, Inversion Excursion teaches you how to unleash chorus after chorus
of fresh ideas by giving you a grip on the chord forms and then illustrating how
to apply them in a musical context. You'll learn how to instantly pull out an
endless variety of interesting voicings and rhythms to keep both the soloist and
the audience engaged and motivated. You'll learn hundreds of inversions up and
down the neck, across all string groups, in all keys. You'll work through major
chord inversions using video demonstrations and extensive charts (over 500
pages!) that illustrate root, first inversion, second inversion and third
inversion forms. Unlike your typical chord book, you'll play your way through
the course within a musical context and learn how to apply the inversions with
rhythmic ideas in virtually any style of music. Over the course of your
Inversion Excursion journey you'll develop a massive vocabulary of chords,
patterns and applications that you can pull out when comping, arranging,
composing and improvising. In short, you'll NEVER find yourself struggling to
come up with something fresh and appropriate, if not downright dazzling.
Hands-on learning tools included with Inversion Excursion: text lesson guide,
chord charts, practice rhythm tracks, and bonus material.. Secure PIN enclosed
in DVD package for quick and secure download of learning tools!
(109 min).......................................................................................Price - $24.95
Frank Vignola - Vamps, Jams & Improvisation - 2 DVD Set
Guitar players love to jam. Call out a key, lay down a one or two chord vamp,
the rhythm section kicks in and everybody starts to get their groove on – simple
enough for seasoned players with monster improv chops and big ears. Not so easy
for most intermediate and early advanced players who tend to run out of ideas
and struggle communicating musically with the other members of the band. This
2-DVD set illustrates dozens of approaches for developing solid melodic and
rhythmic ideas for soloing or comping over one and two-chord vamps. You'll first
learn how to think melodically and then how to best express those ideas, in a
vamp or jam setting, with the other band members. The DVDs cover creative
devices like melodic patterns, call and response, stutter picking, guide tones,
horizontal lines, tone targeting, muffled arpeggios, chromatics, expressions,
passing tones and other techniques for generating ideas on the fly. You'll also
learn how to develop ideas around unusual scales like the Super Locrian, Bartok
minor and harmonic minor scales. Rhythm and comping are also covered with equal
emphasis; clave rhythms, inversions, rhythmic alteration, quartal harmony,
bubble parts, chord punches and how to clearly communicate and then lock up with
the band is demonstrated in detail.
(185
min).......................................................................................Price
- $29.95
Frank Vignola - Gypsy Jazz Jam - DVD
Performances include: "Pent-Up House, Besame
Mucho, Exactly Like You, Tico Tico,
Czardus, Nuages, It Don't Mean a Thing, Endless Love, Gypsy Tradition
Waltz, Limehouse Blues, Dark Eyes".
(45
min).........................................................................................Price - $24.95
Frank Vignola - Jammin' The Blues - Vol 1 -
Book and CD
This volume contains useful, well-structured solos for 11
choruses of the blues in the most common keys. Funky, bluesy, and bop oriented
lines allow you to feel and hear what it is like to play a well-constructed
solo. In the performance tempo recordings, the solo segments are often followed
by numerous choruses featuring the rhythm section. This format allows for
individual practice of the written solos or elaboration of original ideas with a
"live" rhythm section. The solos provide an opportunity for the student to
interact with the recording by copying ideas, building upon what has just been
played, or practicing the chords to the piece.
Notation and
tab.........................................................................Price
- $14.95
Frank Vignola - Jammin' The Blues - Vol 2 - Book
and CD
This volume contains useful, well-structured solos for 14 choruses of the
blues in the most common keys. Funky, bluesy, and bop oriented lines allow you
to feel and hear what it is like to play a well-constructed solo. Some of these
etudes have been recorded at both a slower practice tempo and at performance
tempo. In the performance tempo renditions, the solo segments are often followed
by numerous choruses featuring the rhythm section only. This format allows for
individual practice of the written solos or elaboration of original ideas with a
"live" rhythm section. These solos
provide an opportunity for the student to interact with the recording by copying
ideas, building upon what has just been played, or practicing the chords to the
piece.
Notation and
tab.........................................................................Price
- $14.95
Frank Vignola - Jammin' The Blues - Vol 3
- Book and CD
This volume contains useful, well-structured solos for 16 choruses
of the blues in the most common keys. Funky, bluesy, and bop oriented lines
allow you to feel and hear what it is like to play a well-constructed solo. Some
of these etudes have been recorded at both a slower practice tempo and at
performance tempo. In the performance tempo renditions, the solo segments are
often followed by numerous choruses featuring the rhythm section only. This
format allows for individual practice of the written solos or elaboration of
original ideas with a "live" rhythm section. These solos provide an
opportunity for the student to interact with the recording by copying ideas,
building upon what has just been played, or practicing the chords to the piece.
Notation and
tab.........................................................................Price
- $14.95
Frank Vignola - Jazz Solos - Vol 1 - Book and CD
These jazz solos are play-along jazz standard chord progressions for guitar with
Frank Vignola's solos written out. Each track has plenty of time for the student
to jam along and work out ideas for commonly used jazz standard chord
progressions. Songs include: "All The Things You Are, Green Dolphin Street,
Dorian Ideas, Girl From Ipanema, I'll Remember April, Impressionistic, Satin
Doll, Scapple From the Apple, Take The A Train, What Is This Thing Called Love".
Notation and
tab.........................................................................Price
- $17.95
Frank Vignola - Jazz Solos - Vol 2 - Book & CD
These jazz solos are play-along jazz
standard chord progressions for guitar with Frank Vignola's solos written out.
Each track has plenty of time for the student to jam along and work out ideas
for commonly used jazz standard chord progressions. Songs include: "All Of Me,
Autumn Leaves, Black Orpheus, Blue Bossa Nova, Cherokee, Dark Eyes, Don't Get
Around Much Anymore, Softly As In a Morning Sunrise, Solarize, Tuning Up".
Notation and
tab.........................................................................Price
- $17.95
Frank Vignola - Play Along Jazz Standard Chord
Progressions - Book & CD
Includes solos and chord charts to each of the following songs: "What Is This Thing Called Love,
Satin Doll, Out of Nowhere, Take The "A" Train, There Will Never Be
Another You, Girl
From Ipanema, Scrapple From The Apple, Autumn Leaves".
Notation and tab.........................................................................Price - $14.95
Frank Vignola - Live At The Sheldon - DVD and 2CDs
Filmed in the perfect acoustics of the
Sheldon Concert Hall, guitar virtuoso Frank Vignola shows his timeless
musicianship and talents in this live concert. The Frank Vignola Quintet has
shattered the barriers between popular music and traditional jazz to create an
exciting new sound in acoustic string music. Their repertoire, together with
Vignola’s amazing virtuosity, puts them in a league by themselves creating a new
genre of music, melding contemporary gypsy jazz, bluegrass, toe-tapping swing,
blues and acoustic rock. This DVD is sure to please guitar players of any
style. Pieces include Tico Tico, Salad and Donuts, Hungarian
Rhapsody, Limehouse Blues and more! Also, included with this DVD are two bonus
audio CDs of the concert so that you can listen to your favorite tunes anywhere and anytime!
(110
min).......................................................................................Price - $34.95
Frank Vignola - Rhythm Changes - Vol. I - Book and CD
Contains solos which have been
written and recorded over blues and rhythm changes in many different keys. In the
play-along CD, some of
these solos are recorded at slower (practice) speeds and performance tempos to allow for
individual practice
of the written solos or elaboration of original ideas with a "live" rhythm
section. Occasionally, during these
"rhythm only" sections, Frank will play an improvised solo - so that the student
may interact with the
recording by copying ideas, building upon what has just been played, or practicing the
chords to the piece.
This will give any guitarist some great ideas for playing solos over two of the most
popular musical forms
in jazz.
Notation and
tab.........................................................................Price
- $14.95
Frank Vignola - Rhythm Changes - Vol II - Book and CD
Contains solos which have been
written and recorded over blues and rhythm changes in many different keys. In the
play-along CD, some of
these solos are recorded at slower (practice) speeds and performance tempos to allow for
individual practice
of the written solos or elaboration of original ideas with a "live" rhythm
section. Occasionally, during these
"rhythm only" sections, Frank will play an improvised solo - so that the student
may interact with the
recording by copying ideas, building upon what has just been played, or practicing the
chords to the piece.
This will give any guitarist some great ideas for playing solos over two of the most
popular musical forms
in jazz.
Notation and
tab.........................................................................Price
- $14.95
Frank Vignola - Rhythm Changes - Vol III - Book and CD
Contains solos which have been
written and recorded over blues and rhythm changes in many different keys. In the
play-along CD, some of
these solos are recorded at slower (practice) speeds and performance tempos to allow for
individual practice
of the written solos or elaboration of original ideas with a "live" rhythm
section. Occasionally, during these
"rhythm only" sections, Frank will play an improvised solo - so that the student
may interact with the
recording by copying ideas, building upon what has just been played, or practicing the
chords to the piece.
This will give any guitarist some great ideas for playing solos over two of the most
popular musical forms
in jazz.
Notation and
tab.........................................................................Price
- $14.95
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