This made me pull out "Sweet and Lowdown" from our DVD library. This 1999 Woody Allen film starred Sean Penn as the fictional 2nd best guitarist in the world-only Django was better. It is done a a fake documentary with commentary from Woody Allen and other sprinkled throughout the film. Sean Penn is not a great guitarist but it is a lot of fun with some great music tracks.
Howard Alden plays the guitar parts.
Howard Alden was born in Newport Beach, California in 1958. He began playing the 4-string tenor guitar and banjo at age ten. After hearing recordings of Barney Kessel, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt and other jazz guitar greats, he got a six-string guitar and started teaching himself to play that as well. As a teenager he played both instruments at various venues in the Los Angeles area.[2] He studied guitar with Jimmy Wyble when he was 16. By 1977 he was studying jazz guitar at the Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood, California with Howard Roberts.[3]
Alden recorded the guitar performances for Sean Penn's character "Emmet Ray" in the 1999 Woody Allen film Sweet and Lowdown, and also taught Penn how to mime the performances for the film. The score also featured Bucky Pizzarelli on rhythm guitar and arrangements by pianist Dick Hyman.[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Alden
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