Jazz Articles about Steve Morse

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Steve Morse: Highland Wedding

by Geno Thackara
April 5, 2025

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Steve Morse: Life With and Without The Dregs

by John Kelman
April 8, 2007

He may be best known to many as aging proto-hard rock group Deep Purple's guitarist for the past decade (not to mention time spent in the mid-'80s with a reformed Kansas), but anyone who's followed his career since the mid-'70s knows there's far more to Steve Morse than an ability to admirably shred over the familiar changes to “Smoke on the Water." And we're not just talking about his ability to pilot a commercial aircraft (a career non sequitur that ...

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Steve Morse: Major Impacts

by Todd S. Jenkins
September 1, 2000

On “Major Impacts” Dixie Dregs leader Steve Morse pays all due respect to the guitar giants who inspired him to perfect his craft and eventually join their pantheon. Morse, Dregs bassist Dave LaRue and drummer Van Romaine construct walls of sound higher, wider and stronger than most power trios since the heyday of Cream. Speaking of which, the opening tune is dedicated to Clapton and company, and it sets the crunching pace for the whole album. LaRue’s muscular bass is ...

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Steve Morse: Major Impacts

by John W. Patterson
June 1, 2000

Whew, did Morse surprise me on this new release, Major Impacts !He has a new sound. “Why?" Because this is a “tribute" type of project. With much forethought, fun, and well-done planning — Morse purposefully emulates the great axers' influences on his already phenomenally famous guitar artistry and supersonic chops, speed-limit decimations.Morse echoes Clapton's Cream era, covers the supernova-gamma ray blasts of Hendrix, bellows blues-rock-fusion-meister Jeff Beck style, recognizes fusion's ostinato-lord, John McLaughlin, crunches nicely a ...