Cool tone on a 530

[rwinking]

I am assuming that even though the tuner is covering the brand, it looks like an H-530. This guy gets a nice smooth tone on those P-90s.

 

[big bob]

He should talk less, play more!

[111518]

Grant Green played a 330 for a stretch of his career. 

I think a thinline full-hollow with P-90's makes a very-comfortable-to-play and great-sounding jazz guitar.  I have a "John Lennon" Japanese/US Epiphone Casino, (which I got before Heritage offered the 530), and, it's a nice guitar for jazz.  The fact that it --like most original 330s and Casino's-- has a fairly narrow neck is not a disadvantage since bending is less significant in traditional jazz.  (I'm not sure if 530's usually had narrow necks?)  The Casino even has enough acoustic volume to be fine for practice without plugging in.  

Nathan Borton has some very interesting jazz guitar videos, in my humble opinion ... and, his point is well taken that it is remarkable the degree to which an entire generation of jazz guitar players learned their craft primarily by copying the recordings that Charlie Christian made with Bennie Goodman's small groups (and "Solo Flight," with the big band.)  

[rwinking]

Yeah, tone is in the fingers. I have a 1962 Casino with the 330 style headstock. It is a remarkable screaming rock guitar (ala' Beatles white album sound) guitar but I could never get a nice jazz tone out of it like I can with my L5 or H-576. The same goes for my old tele. If you listen to Canadian jazz guitarist Ed Bickert, he makes a tele sound like an L5. In my hands it sounds like Don Rich.

[MartyGrass]

I have a H-530 that is just great.  Part of it is how it feels.  It's very light.  Acoustically it's louder with resonance I can literally feel.  Mine has humbuckers, which is fine with me.

The H-576 is a very nice model.  They tend to be stunning and have a nice feel to them.