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The Elliot Freedman Group: The Elliot Freedman Group

Read "The Elliot Freedman Group" reviewed by John W. Patterson

by John W. Patterson
March 1, 1999

Ah, yes, this is good. For those of us having immersed ourselves ritually in a certain guitar mastery, seeking the legendary muse of Allan Holdsworth — hearing Elliot Freedman play is a singular pleasure. The short-sighted?, secretly envious?, and knee-jerk smug? may cast aspersions his way such as clone, copycat, or an uninteresting echo lacking creativity. What silences them is Freedman's music which yes, emulates Holdsworthian majesty, but is uniquely The Elliot Freedman Group's own answer to that same muse ...