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His version of La Mer makes my top 10 songs ever.
IMO, his solo improvisations are well worth checking out.
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay
He could _really_ shred, too. You have to go a long way into the 70s and 80s before you find guitar players who could routinely rip it up at the sort of speed he did.
Check the solo on this, solo begins about 45-50 seconds in:
the little octave displaced lick at the start is great, but when he ramps the speed up, he's flying. And yet it's all singable.
Having tried to play this stuff myself, sometimes his fingerings are actually really logical, and make playing fast easier, even if you have the full compliment of left-hand fingers.
Came across this great audio with real-time transcription the other day - complete with slow-down feature and a pop-up fretboard. For a non-jazzer like me it's an eye-opener, and I hope to find the time to study it and pick up some nuggets. It's I'll See You In My Dreams - a classic. Hit "play" at the bottom of the page.
https://www.soundslice.com/scores/68433/
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
And this is lovely stuff too:
And if you mixed Django with Jimi Hendrix, you might get something like this interesting gypsy jazz version of 'Hey Joe':