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Vol. 1 Signature Chord Melody Arrangements
Dr Kenneth Louis - Tampa, FL
He gets you playing

I have all of his stuff and have met him and Mike, part of his sales organization. I have almost every jazz method - my wife can attest to that. He lived in Jacksonville FL for awhile. I particularly like his chord melody material. Controversial using an extremely thin pick (Dunlop .38 mm). Almost a Suzuki approach - he gets you playing complete songs first, then adds back in the theory

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Entrada Archtop Guitar
James P Burke III
Plays so smoothly…Outstanding Customer Service

My Conti Entrada plays so smoothly and is so BEAUTIFUL too. Thank you for providing outstanding customer service. Including the personalized video of Robert Conti playing my actual guitar was so SPECIAL. No other guitar company has ever provided this HIGHLY INDIVIDUALIZED customer service. This was one of the best online guitar purchases that I’ve ever made. Thanks Mike for answering all of my questions and assisting with my patience during the building and processing period. I am now a PROUD owner of a CONTI GUITAR!!
James P. Burke III
Accokeek, Maryland, USA

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Entrada Archtop Guitar
Protean Polymath
A much-needed dream come true...

2024 - 2 Entrada Archtop Guitars

Wonderful guitars. I call them my “fraternal twins”. Both of my Robert Conti designed guitars play magnificently, and carry the sound of a full size electrified arch top with the amazing dual Kent Armstrong pickups, Fantastic workmanship. They are both stunning beauties. One cannot go wrong with purchasing such a guitar that is in the superlative. The best design of a guitar that has ever existed, a much-needed dream come true for the working, professional guitarist, or hobbyist. A special thank-you goes out to Robert Conti, for the videos showing these guitars in action, as well as Mike, and Steve for all their help and correspondence regarding my purchases of these very fine guitars. Plus, all the course materials that I have purchased over the years are available on the site to all who want to improve their improvisational skills.

2009 - Equity Model

Case closed, this is the guitar of the future. The appointments far exceed all my expectations and make all of my studies pertaining to jazz guitar a monumental pleasure. Many bell-like tones, bone nut, perfect neck, solid woods. All my other guitars are now on probation. Once you get your hands on a "Conti/Equity" guitar, there is no turning back.

-Protean Polymath, Kingston, NY USA

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Entrada Archtop Guitar
Scott Tarulli
Berklee Professor Reviews Lefty Entrada

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Vol. 4 - Ticket To Improv
gerald mckinnon
volume four

Super excellent

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The Jazz Lines
Jack Marchewka
Just getting started

Worked though the first two lessons of the Jazz Lines book (more to go), but it opened a door for me. I’ve come to understand there is a difference between theory and harmony. This is about learning harmony. If you want to play jazz learn harmony.

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Vol. 4 Wave
Mike Sanders - Las Vegas, NV
One of Conti's Best Solo Lessons

All of the Robert Conti DVDs are top-notch, but this one takes the cake. He takes what some consider to be a harmonically complex tune and breaks it done into the simplest of terms. From here, the viewer is taken through the lesson a few measures at a time, with each concept explained in detail and with care. Once you have the lesson under your hands, you not only have an impressive solo but an increased vocabulary of lines to use on other songs and a better understanding of how to approve improvisation over any song. Great fun and well worth the effort. If you are new to improvisation, I recommend learning from a few of Conti’s “Ticket to Improv” DVDs first as you will internalize the lesson much faster and have a greater understanding of the concepts presented.

The Jazz Quintet CD Review

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ROBERT CONTI
Jazz Quintet

Conti, gtr;  Mike Wofford, p;  John B.Williams, b; Herman Riley,  sa, as, ts, fl;Jim Plank, perc.

Rotation, The Agony of Ecstacy; Hollywood and Sunset; In Memory of; The Street Life of South Philadelphia; The World Today; String Fever.

Jan 08, 1988  Robert Conti  isn’t well-known since he spends most of his time in a small beach community near Jacksonville Florida, but he’s a whiz of a bebop guitarist and

– as this collection of his tunes illustrates – an imaginative composer as well.  A player of great virtuosity, his improvisations are characteristically constructed from highly melodic but hard swinging phrases so seamlessly connected they would leave a hornman gasping for air.  In fact they sometime leave the listener needing a breather too, and the application of some Count Basie’s or Miles lessons on the merits of empty space might not be a bad idea.  Conti’s tunes range all the way from prototypical bebop flagwavers to a slow, rubato, almost impressionistic solo piano piece, and include a Strayhorn-like ballad rendered Hodges-style by saxophonist Riley, a quiet flute feature, and a medium-tempo strut. The writing is fresh-sounding and attractive .

Conti’s colleagues are excellent.  The attentive rhythm section keeps a buoyant beat and soloists contribute first-rate improvisations.  It’s too bad pianist Wofford has only two solos, since those-a chorus on the changes of Cherokee (Rotation) and an unaccompanied rendition of In Memory Of- are extraordinarily well-developed and cliché-free. Riley offers some fine bop-flet and Bird–like on also, soulful and Turrentine-like on tenor–although he doesn’t sound altogether comfortable with the blazing tempo of the bridge to Rotation.

Despite a bit of ensemble sloppiness (a few missed entrance and pitch discrepancies, for example), the overall quality of the music is high and Robert Conti’s debut record is one fans of straight-ahead, mainstream modern jazz should enjoy.
DAVID FRANKLIN

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