Jazz Articles about Garrison Fewell/Eric Hofbauer Duo

Garrison Fewell/ Eric Hofbauer: The Lady of Khartoum

by Mark F. Turner
March 22, 2008

It's best to throw out any preconceived notions of the “guitar duo" before listening to The Lady Of Khartoum CD by composers/guitarists Garrison Fewell and Eric Hofbauer. These fifteen, mostly short snippets, are aural conversations that transcend the common conventions of typical fret-board picking melodies. Both performers have works that have spanned genres from mainstream to experimental. But this is something altogether different. Like conversations between two distant friends, the dialogs of these skilled improvisers speak of ...

Garrison Fewell/ Eric Hofbauer: The Lady of Khartoum

by John Sharpe
March 11, 2008

I wouldn't normally go for an album of guitar improvisation, but from the first notes the abstracted beauty of this duet session from Boston-area guitarists Garrison Fewell and Eric Hofbauer both dazzles and beguiles, sufficient to eliminate any prejudice.

Hofbauer is part of the Blueprint Project, whose 2007 recording People I Like made several best of year lists, and is also the founder of Creative Nation Music Records, while Fewell has gigged and recorded with John Tchicai, George ...

Garrison Fewell / Eric Hofbauer: The Lady Of Khartoum

by Nic Jones
March 9, 2008

Here's music from two guitars that covers far more ground than that description may imply. Fewell and Hofbauer are both players acutely aware of the sonic potential their instrument has to offer, and that awareness is one of the many qualities that combine lift the music on The Lady Of Khartoum well above the run-of-the-mill.

“Comfort For An Affliction" starts quite literally from nothing other than silence, and such is its simultaneously reflective yet agitated air ...