| I was just watching some old black & white
TV footage of Jim Hall (with Sonny Rollins) and had forgotten that he was
playing his old ES-175 during that era. Heck ... most of my jazz
guitar heroes from the '50s and '60s were playing this model! The
ES-175 was introduced by Gibson in 1949 and really has been dominant in
the idiom ever since!
We received a "heads-up" from the Canadian Gibson
distributor that an especially nice and increasingly rare Natural finish
ES-175 was available, so we jumped on it. What an exceptional instrument!
The figure in the wood is quite attractive with a nice patina to the lacquer,
great playability AND that great "inside jazz" tone that I love!!! |
