Jazz Articles about Pete McCann

Pete McCann: You Remind Me Of Someone

by Todd S. Jenkins
January 1, 2001

Guitarist Pete McCann has gathered a beautiful assortment of songs and assembled one heck of a choice quartet to interpret them on this admirable disc. McCann is a big-eared, big-toned player who has served quality time with the Maria Schneider Orchestra, Bobby Previte, John Patitucci, Kenny Wheeler and other modern jazz stars. He and bassist John Hebert are also members of the contemporary quintet Fundementia (whose albumA Whole Nother Storyis reviewed in the Fusion section this month). McCann devotes as ...

Pete McCann: Parable

by Glenn Astarita
May 1, 1999

What is it with these unassuming, clean cut looking guys like Bill Frisell and Pete McCann? They can churn out blistering, Hendrix-like guitar licks and “out-rock” most of those thin, longhaired rock stars yet, render smooth, articulate and at times difficult jazz motifs.

Pete McCann is among the new breed of jazz guitarists who demonstrate this ability. A relatively new kid on the block, McCann has appeared with Bobby Previte’s “The Horse”, Tom Varner, Kenny Wheeler, Maria Schneider Orchestra, David ...

Pete McCann: Parable

by Joel Roberts
May 1, 1999

One of the best and most ambitious albums to appear last year was Tom Varner's Window Up Above, a wildly eclectic overview of the entire history of American music, from Civil War songs to Duke Ellington to Hank Williams. The guitarist on that release was Pete McCann, who brings the same broad range of musical interests and abilities to Parable, his debut recording as a leader.

Like most of us, McCann clearly listens to a lot of different kinds of ...

Pete McCann: Parable

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 1999

While the music he chooses to play isn’t always to my liking, Pete McCann is an enormously talented guitarist who cleverly splashes intense colors across an expansive musical canvas. He’s also something of a chameleon, shrewdly modifying style and substance to mirror the requirements of each composition. So it is that on one track he may call to mind Wes Montgomery, Tal Farlow or Kenny Burrell, while on others there’ll be echoes of artists as diverse as Larry Coryell, John ...