Jazz Articles about Nguyen Le

About Nguyen Le

Album Review

Jazz guitarist and composer Nguyen Le has played with the French National Jazz Orchestra, the WDR Big Band with composer/conductor Vince Mendoza, and with several trios he assembled himself. In Tales from Viet-nam, he set out to blend jazz fusion with traditional Vietnamese music and musicians. This project offered a cultural examination of Le's family roots, as the Paris-born child of Vietnamese parents. All but one of the nine songs on Tales from Viet-nam are written around well-known, traditional Vietnamese ...

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Album Review

Nguyên Lê: Three Trios

Read "Three Trios" reviewed by John W. Patterson

by John W. Patterson
December 1, 2001

Nguyên Lê is amazing. His guitar work is unique, inspiring, technically challenging, fired with soul, jazzy, rocking, and drips of fusion yet goes even further. You will hear world music (far-Eastern/Southeast Asian) scales and note treatments in attack, vibrato, and bends. Lê is of Vietnamese heritage but knows full well the world of jazz and rock.He can play light-hearted, crystalline-clear tones, dreamy chordal sustains, wielding an endless barrage of effects and suddenly flat-out scream and wail like a ...