| 词条 | George Van Eps |
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| name = George Van Eps | image = George Van Eps In 1949 Photograph.jpg | caption = George Van Eps in 1949 | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = George Abel Van Eps | birth_date = {{birth date|1913|8|7}} | birth_place = Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1998|11|29|1913|8|7}} | death_place = Newport Beach, California | genre = Jazz, swing | occupation = Musician | instrument = Seven-string guitar | years_active = 1924–1998 | label = Euphoria, Capitol, Concord Jazz | associated_acts = Freddy Martin, Benny Goodman, Ray Noble, Howard Alden }} George Van Eps (August 7, 1913 – November 29, 1998) was an American swing and mainstream jazz guitarist. BiographyGeorge Van Eps was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, into a family of musicians. His three brothers were musicians. His mother was a classical pianist and his father, Fred Van Eps, was a ragtime banjoist. George Van Eps began playing banjo when he was eleven years old. After hearing Eddie Lang on the radio, he put down the banjo and devoted himself to guitar. By the age of thirteen, in 1926, he was performing on the radio. Through the middle of the 1930s, he played with Harry Reser, Smith Ballew, Freddy Martin, Benny Goodman, and Ray Noble.[1][2][3] Van Eps moved to California and spent most of his remaining career as a studio musician, playing on many commercials and movie soundtracks.[1] In the 1930s, he invented a model of guitar with another bass string added to the common six-string guitar. The seven-string guitar allowed him to play basslines below his chord voicings, unlike the single-string style of Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. He called his technique "lap piano". It anticipated the fingerpicking style of country guitarists Chet Atkins and Merle Travis and inspired jazz guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli, John Pizzarelli, and Howard Alden to pick up the seven-string.[3] Dixieland had a following in Los Angeles during the 1940s and 1950s, and he played in groups led by Bob Crosby, Pete Kelly, and Matty Matlock.[1]Van Eps played guitar into his 80s, having built a career that lasted over sixty years.[3] He died of pneumonia in Newport Beach, California on November 29, 1998 at the age of 85.[4][3] DiscographyAs leader or co-leader
As sideman
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References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|last1=Yanow|first1=Scott|title=The Great Jazz Guitarists |date = 2013 | publisher = Backbeat | location =San Francisco|isbn=978-1-61713-023-6|page=199}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Van Eps, George}}2. ^{{cite book|last1=Peerless|first1=Brian|editor1-last=Kernfeld|editor1-first=Barry|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz|date=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York | isbn = 1-56159-284-6 | page=825| volume=2 | edition = 2}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|last1=Ginell|first1=Richard S.|title=George Van Eps|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/george-van-eps-mn0000540103/biography|website=AllMusic|accessdate=18 August 2017}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/07/arts/george-van-eps-85-musician-who-popularized-7-string-guitar.html |title=George Van Eps, 85, Musician Who Popularized 7-String Guitar |first=Peter |last=Watrous |newspaper=The New York Times |date=7 December 1998}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=George Van Eps {{!}} Album Discography|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/george-van-eps-mn0000540103/discography|website=AllMusic|accessdate=19 August 2016}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=George Van Eps {{!}} Credits {{!}} AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/george-van-eps-mn0000540103/credits|website=AllMusic|accessdate=18 August 2017}} 9 : 1913 births|1998 deaths|Musicians from Plainfield, New Jersey|American jazz guitarists|Seven-string guitarists|20th-century American guitarists|Mainstream jazz guitarists|Swing guitarists|Deaths from pneumonia |
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