New York-based jazz grasp Oz Noy joins Rhett for a dialogue on find out how to get probably the most out of your gear and the significance of enjoying reside.
This episode of Dipped In Tone options Rhett flying solo with veteran jazz guitarist Oz Noy. Born in Israel, Noy began gigging at age 13, and 37 years later, he’s nonetheless going robust as a celebrated reside musician—together with a 17-year run at New York Metropolis membership The Bitter Finish.
Noy explains that he grew up with a foot in each jazz and rock music worlds. The previous taught him intricate enjoying, whereas the latter schooled him on tone and sound. “I used to be enjoying heavy metallic on one hand,” he says. “On the opposite, I had a hollowbody guitar and I used to be enjoying bebop.” When he moved to New York, he was “shellshocked” by how superior and spectacular the jazz music scene was. Noy performed in a trio, so to fill out his sonic palette, he started leaning on results as “nearly one other instrument.” Not all of it has been intentional—he discovered a signature sound due to a cheerful accident with a tremolo pedal whereas gigging in Japan.
Whereas he nonetheless loves outdated, loud Marshalls, Noy says Two-Rock amplifiers have radically modified his strategy, and he even makes use of Fender combos on the highway. However except for operating his amps right into a Common Audio OX, Noy explains why he’s nonetheless not impressed with digital amp options.
Noy’s most essential recommendation for gamers? “You gotta exit of your own home and play reside,” he says, explaining why it doesn’t lower it to simply home-record clips for Instagram or YouTube. And whereas he sings the praises of his favourite fashionable jazz gamers, he tells Rhett why he thinks that rock and blues guitar-playing haven’t developed a lot for the reason that ’70s: “There’s no person that took it to the subsequent degree or invented one thing new.”
