Anyone else using their tele's for jazz?

Nope, I'm using Esquires.

 

ASAT representing. I named it Ed, after Bickert.

 

It's one of the reasons I just picked up my first Telecaster. I picked up an Epiphone Sheraton a few months back in a trade and started putting some jazzy leads into some of my band's tunes. Started researching my next guitar, originally thinking I was going to get another semi-hollow and happened across dudes on YouTube using Telecasters. Put it on the neck pickup, roll down the tone knob, and you have great jazz tone. Love it.

Now I'm thinking that I need another Tele and another semi-hollow, and my gigging set of guitars will be 2 Teles and 2 semi-hollows.

 

I think my Squier works well for jazz. I put in Bill Lawrence L200s, and I use the clean channel of my Dean Markley tube amp, with a bit of gain.

 

not now , but i have on occasion, mostly on the neck pickup with the tone rolled down about half way, sounds good to my ears

 

ron kirn tele, 4-way.

mostly through a polytone.

i was out of music for about a decade-- i'm still not up to speed on computer recording-- haven't yet learned how to synch garageband with video.

my punishment for not having kids-- if i had a 12yr old, i'd just point em at the thing and whimper and let'em set it all up for me.

 

The amazing Scotty Anderson...

 

I do, i do.Telecaster is great for jazz. Cocoboudin

 

I try, Tim Lerch does.

 

I use mine exclusively for jazz. I use 49-11 strings and tune it down a semi-tone. Roland cubes are my amps.

 

heres a really good Roy Buchanan Video of him playing Jazz on his Tele.

 

Playing in a jazz group, I gave a try to a Fender MIJ Custom '62 Tele (sort of... see picture below), and was amazed by the sound I got out of it, on the neck PU, with the tone down. Sweetness and a little bite... I love that sound... and the guitar as well !
I plug in a Blues Jr or a Frontman 212, depending on the size of the gig. (I use other guitars as well, like a Washburn J6 Wes Montgomery archtop but I could do it all with this Tely !).

 

Jim Mullen of the great Morrissey Mullen band often (usually?) played a telecaster.

 

Jimmy Herring talks of a similar experience.

 

The Jimmy Herring cut is nice, but I found his stomp box tone to be a bit artificial and abrasive. Cool drummer.

He also plays with his thumb, with great facility, and seems to use only the first 3 fingers of his left hand (like Eric Clapton and Pat Metheny.) It's very humbling, considering that I am trying to use every finger I can find, plus a pick.

 

Very tasty. Well done. What Squier model?