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Rich Peare: Blues For Peter
by Jack Kenny
There is a special kind of pleasure in sitting in a jazz club, listening to talented musicians use their skills to explore some of the finest melodies of the last sixty years. In their debut album, Blues for Peter, Rich Peare (classical guitar) and Don Messina (double bass) offer just that experience. The album features eight improvised tracks--seven standards and one blues--plucked on a nylon-stringed classical guitar and a gut-stringed double bass. Messina's connection to jazz is deep-rooted. ...
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by Dave Nathan
The title of Rich Peare's inaugural album, Guitar Hour is a perfectly accurate description of what you get, viz., an hour of beguiling and romantic acoustic guitar by a young man with out of the ordinary talent. The approach to his studio recording is quite different than the common practice in today's high technology which is now seems as important as the music, let's fix it in the mixin' approach, often in making many contemporary recording. On Peare's album, each ...
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