Chris Thile in London Interview
Kudos to Mandolin Cafe staff writer Dan Beimborn on an excellent, insightful interview with living legend, Chris Thile. Dan had some prime moments to speak Read more»
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Digital text format to dominate the future
We've personally found the iPad to be extremely useful for performance and practicing. The iReal b for practicing with jazz "Standards" accompaniments, the unreal Book Read more»
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November 1, 2009 | David Grisman & Co: Django Recording Session
An almost dreamlike living room studio rendition of a tremendous Django tune with none other than the likes of mandolin master Dave Grisman slinging his ground-breaking Giacomel space-mando, along with Django Jazz giants, Robin Nolan, Frank Vignola, Michael Papillo. Some pretty nice tone there; this is about as good as it gets:
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