One of the supreme joys of playing guitar is being able to sit down and play an entire song all by yourself, just you and your guitar, melody, harmony and bass line all present.  It is one of the most satisfying sounds in all of music - solo guitar.  However, many guitarists have little or no  idea  how to develop a solo guitar arrangement, as it often seems like only  a handful of guitarists know the secret of how to do this.  Robert Conti reveals all in his updated Source Code volumes of The Chord Melody Assembly Line  and The Formula!

If you are interested in learning professional gig ready arrangements very quickly, this DVD is for you.  Conti’s goal is to have  the student/viewer  play meaningful music as quickly as possible and without having to first learn scales,  modes and theory. Conti firmly believes that it is much easier to learn as he says,  the “nuts and bolts” after you canactually play  the music. . .

Anybody so into jazz guitar that they think they’ve seen it all may want to take a gander at the video clips on Robert Conti’s website. Chances are they’ll end up joining the growing ranks of those who start wondering where he – or we – have been.

Robert Conti - Guitar, Rocco Barbato - Saxophones, Billy Moran - Hammond B3, AldoBentivegna - Drums."To The Brink!" restates everything that folks are finding out about Robert Conti:  heis one of the very top modern jazz guitarists. He possesses incredible technical chopsthat ALWAYS deliver great solo lines. He is an encyclopedia of harmonic inventionwho effortlessly performs lyrical, satisfying chord solos. But, what is not often publicly stated about Conti is that he is a. . .

On a recent visit to Las Vegas I had the opportunity to catch a three hour set of Bob Conti's solo gig at Ventano Italian Restaurant about fifteen minutes from the Las Vegas Strip.  Much has been written about Bob, and after seeing him in person I can say that all of it is true. . .

The name of Robert Conti first came to my attention in the summer of 2000, while I was thumbing through an impressive Just Jazz Guitar review of a Conti performance in Beverly Hills, California. Later that year I had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with Paul Getty through his visits to my educational website. During a telephone conversation, the Conti name surfaced once again when Paul convinced me to visit and spend an hour at Robert's website. Little did I realize what I was about to see and hear.

Imagine if you will, a musical equivalent of the climactic scene from a Clint Eastwood motion picture. However,when the shootout is over and the smoke begins to clear, there is a lone guitar player holding the neck of an awesome looking eight string guitar. This, while other notorious guitar slingers linger in the shadows. So it was the scenario at the performance of super jazz guitarist Robert Conti at Rocco's, a fine jazz supper club high in the hills of Bel Air on the night of June 12th. . .