D'Aquisto's Last Guitar - Roy Ben Bashat

Roy Ben Bashat performs "It Could Happen to You"
Guitarist, songwriter, and producer originally from Tel Aviv, currently based in Brooklyn, NYC. Ben Bashat has played with artists in the NYC music scene such as Luis Perdomo, Eric McPherson and Darren Barrett.
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1994 D'Aquisto "Centura"
James "Jimmy" D'Aquisto apprenticed under master luthier John D'Angelico in New York City starting in 1952, and eventually came to be considered one of the greatest archtop builders of our time. His guitars have been owned by Jim Hall, Grant Green, Joe Pass, and George Benson, among many others. Now his guitars are coveted by players and collectors all over the world, with two of them even residing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
This guitar, one of his “Centura” models, was the last guitar that D’Aquisto ever built, finished in 1994. The instrument was commissioned by a client of D’Aquisto, who wanted a 7 string guitar. However, by the time he got to building the instrument, he had forgotten this information and built a 6 string instead. D’Aquisto assured the client that he would fix the problem after an imminent trip to California but sadly, he died before he returned home.
This video series invites a handful of New York based musicians to come and explore the instrument, connecting the rich history of Jimmy D’Aquisto’s luthiery to the future of jazz guitar.
The instrument is now under the care of The Blue Guitars/Archtop Foundation, an organization that maintains a very special collection of archtop guitars.
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Filmed, engineered, mixed and edited by David Blake
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[@joseph2707]

Great and original.

[@glenpirro4391]

Jimmy is smiling, where ever he is! Beautiful playing!

[@davidblakeguitar]

Ain’t that the truth!!

[@joshedge73]

Wow!!!!!!

[@Mikkokosmos]

Amazing tone

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Roy got the magic touch!