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Instrument: Guitar, electric
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Keep Swingin', a splendid new album from pianist Garry Dial and drummer Rich DeRosa, features the music of Charlie Banacos." Charlie who? you may ask. And the answer is, there are jazz educators, and then there was Charlie Banacos, whose talent and ingenuity in the classroom influenced and inspired countless jazz musicians for more than fifty years. During that time, he designed more than a hundred courses of study and wrote half a dozen books on composition and improvisation.
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by Len Davis
German bassist Dieter Ilg from Summer Hill, guitarist Jane Getter with Adam Holzman, French guitarist Marc Guillermont, and bassist David Hines. Brazilian drummer Cuca Texiera from Mr Motaba, multi instrumentalist Sandro Haick with Pepe Cisneros, John McLaughlin from The Heart of Things-Live in Paris. We finish the first hour with Wayne Krantz, Keith Carlock and Tim Lefebvre. Playlist Dieter Ilg Summer Hill" from Summer Hill (Lipstick) 00:00 Jane Getter Pressure Point" from ON (Self Produced) 07:58 Marc Guillermont ...
read moreKrantz / Carlock / Lefebvre: Touching The Stars
by Mike Jacobs
Guitarist Wayne Krantz has had a long, interesting and (some would say) iconic career. Along the way, he has reshaped his own style, delved heavily into the compositional and improvisational ends of the spectrum (often blurring the lines between them), and built a catalog that redefined what is possible both on his instrument and as a part of a group. But even in a career rife with left turns, reinventions and revolutionary periods, his KCL trio with bassist Tim Lefebvre ...
read moreWayne Krantz, Mark Lettieri, Jan Hammer and Aurora Clara
by Len Davis
New York guitarist Wayne Krantz, from San Francisco Mark Lettieri, a new album from Jan Hammer Seasons 2, German drummer Anika Nilles' latest Opuntia, Aurora Clara from Spain, a classic Billy Cobham from Inner Conflicts, plus Kick The Cat and Vasil Hadzimanov Band.Playlist Wayne Krantz U Can't Touch This" from Good Piranha Bad Piranha (Abstract Logix) 00:00 Mark Lettieri Spark and Echo" from Spark and Echo (Ropeadope) 07:00 Jan Hammer Summer Solstice" from Seasons 2 (Country & Eastern) ...
read moreKrantz, Carlock, Lefebvre At Bop Stop
by C. Andrew Hovan
KCL: Wayne Krantz, Keith Carlock, Tim Lefebvre Bop Stop Cleveland, OH February 25, 2022 Back in the late '90s, chameleon-like guitarist Wayne Krantz started building a reputation by banding together with bassist Tim Lefebvre and drummer Keith Carlock for a residency at The 55 Bar in New York. By sharing their homemade, downloadable recordings of these regular gigs, a wider audience grew beyond the home environs. A studio album in 2009 further solidified their growing ...
read moreWayne Krantz: Music Room 1985
by Mike Jacobs
When it comes to lost recordings, unpublished novels or newly unearthed art of any sort, receptions tend to be somewhat mixed. This may be because, in many cases, those responsible for these works are usually dead and/or mythologized to a degree, so the expectational ante gets upped accordingly. Also involvedand perhaps more importantis the ability (or inability) to receive them in their proper context years after the fact. Which is why one of the nicer aspects of Wayne ...
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