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Jim Hall: Guitar As Miniature Orchestra

Jim Hall performs at the 2013 Newport Jazz Festival. Adam Kissick for NPR hide caption

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Take Five: A Jazz Sampler

Jim Hall: Guitar As Miniature Orchestra

Hall is in a league of players who've turned the tables for jazz and their respective instruments. As far as modernizing the sound and vocabulary of jazz guitar to the degree he did, longtime admirer and fellow guitarist Rez Abbasi says Hall is unmatched. Abbasi picks five songs, each of which reveals Hall's idiosyncratic technique.

Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet, Trio Da Paz On JazzSet

Rez Abbasi performs at the Newport Jazz Festival. Erik Jacobs for NPR hide caption

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Concerts

Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet, Trio Da Paz On JazzSet

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We're in a guitar world, from Pakistan to Brazil and from steel strings to nylon, as the Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet and Trio da Paz play in turn at the Newport Jazz Festival.

Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet, Trio Da Paz On JazzSet

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