{"id":6077,"date":"2017-02-08T11:23:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T19:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=6077"},"modified":"2019-08-26T10:07:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T17:07:54","slug":"phoenix-guitars-shows-its-jazz-classical-model-at-winter-namm-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/phoenix-guitars-shows-its-jazz-classical-model-at-winter-namm-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Guitar Company Shows Its Jazz Classical Model at Winter NAMM 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Leach of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixguitarco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phoenix Guitar Company<\/a> stopped by our booth at the Winter 2017 NAMM convention in Anaheim, Calif., to show us his latest Jazz Classical guitar, a \u00a0nylon-string, single-cutaway model with a German spruce top, Amazon rosewood back and sides, a soundport on the upper bout, and a unique, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired rosette design. Leach comments, &#8220;The back of the neck has a much faster arc-shape profile, instead of the D-shape profile on a lot of classicals, so people who aren&#8217;t familiar with classicals find this neck to be a little more comfortable.&#8221; Following the description of the guitar, Vermont-based blues, jazz, and Americana guitarist <a href=\"http:\/\/paulasbell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Asbell<\/a>\u00a0demonstrates the guitar&#8217;s sound, playing a bit of Luiz Bonf\u00e1&#8217;s <em>Manh\u00e3 de Carnaval <\/em>(from the classic 1959 film,<em> Black Orpheus<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Leach of the Phoenix Guitar Company stopped by our booth at the Winter 2017 NAMM convention in Anaheim, Calif., to show us his latest Jazz Classical guitar, a \u00a0nylon-string, single-cutaway model with a German spruce top, Amazon rosewood back and sides, a soundport on the upper bout, and a unique, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired rosette design. Leach comments, &#8220;The back of the neck has a much faster arc-shape profile, instead of the D-shape profile on a lot of classicals, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Phoenix-Guitars-Paul-Asbell-NAMM-2017.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}