Spain (Chick Corea) - Jack Thammarat & Az Samad

Spain (Chick Corea)
Jack Thammarat & Az Samad - Guitars

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[Jamming with Jack Thammarat]

On Thursday, Feb 4 2016, I had the awesome opportunity to spend a day with Thailand's amazing guitarist Jack Thammarat at his studio in Bangkok. He graciously made time to meet up with both me and Yin, making a trip from Pattaya to Bangkok!

It was a really cool geek out session with me asking Jack questions about his playing and Jack asking me questions about jazz guitar. We found out that we both are Tim Miller fans and are both fascinated with Charlie Parker's bebop lines. Jack played me his very cool chord melody version of the Bill Evans jazz waltz piece, Very Early and I played him my arrangement of Misty and Getaran Jiwa. Over the 5 hour and a half session, we jammed on jazz standards from Autumn Leaves, Blue Bossa, Spain, a jazz blues in Bb and also exchanged ideas on improvising over common jazz progressions such as I VI II V, II V I and also one chord vamps like an extended A7 funk vamp.

I was very happy to have the opportunity to discover more of his interest in jazz and also hear his ideas on picking for both rock and jazz settings.

Thanks so much to Yin for coordinating everything and making this happen!

We both hope to play some gigs together in future! Here's a video from our sessions together. =)

http://www.azsamad.com/
https://jackthammarat.net/