Steel guitar
A steel guitar (Hawaiian: kīkākila) is a type of guitar played by sliding a steel bar or another hard object across plucked strings. The steel bar is called a “steel,” which is where the instrument gets its name. Unlike a regular guitar, a steel guitar does not have frets, but it has markers that look like frets.
Twelve-string guitar
A twelve-string guitar is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings arranged in six pairs, called courses. It creates a fuller, more ringing sound compared to a standard six-string guitar. Usually, the lower four pairs of strings are tuned an octave apart, while the top two pairs are tuned to the same note.
Flamenco guitar
A flamenco guitar is a type of guitar that is similar to a classical guitar. It has lower action, thinner tops, smaller bodies, and less internal bracing. Like the classical guitar, it usually has nylon strings.
Classical guitar
The classical guitar, also called the Spanish guitar, is a type of guitar used in classical music and other styles. It is an acoustic instrument made of wood with strings made of gut or nylon. This instrument came before modern steel-string acoustic and electric guitars, which use metal strings.
Bass guitar
The bass guitar, also called the electric bass, is the lowest-pitched instrument in the guitar family. It looks and is built similarly to an electric guitar but has a longer neck and scale length. The electric bass guitar most often has four strings, though some models have five, six, or seven strings.
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a type of guitar that needs an amplifier to be heard clearly during performances, unlike an acoustic guitar, which produces sound on its own. It uses pickups to change the vibrations of its strings into electrical signals. These signals are then played through loudspeakers to create sound.
Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration travels from the bridge to the top of the guitar. This vibration also moves to the sides and back of the instrument, causing the air inside the body to vibrate.
Annie Ross
Annie Ross (born Annabelle Allan Short; July 25, 1930 – July 21, 2020) was a British-born American singer and actress. She is best known as a member of the important jazz vocal group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. She helped create the vocalese style of jazz singing, which is described by critic Dave Gelly as “a dreamy and alert way that represents 1950s hip culture.” In 2010, she was honored as a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Jon Hendricks
John Carl Hendricks (September 16, 1921, to November 22, 2017), also known as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer. He helped create a style of music called vocalese, which adds words to instrumental jazz songs and uses singers instead of some instruments, such as those found in the music of Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Hendricks was highly skilled in scat singing, a type of vocal jazz where singers improvise melodies with nonsensical words.
King Pleasure
King Pleasure (born Clarence Beeks; March 24, 1922 – March 21, 1981) was an American jazz singer who helped develop vocalese, a style in which a singer adds words to a famous instrumental piece.