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Ian Smit

Ian Smit is a composer, guitar texturalist for Monkeyworks, e’fessioux, Rick Savage & Beyond Jazz, Sputnik 5, QWERT, Ping, and a bunch of unsuspecting singer/songwriters, still manages to not fall into a neatly packaged musical genre… And, that’s okay!

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Lots have changed since this posting...Does it even really matter?  Reader’s Rig: Ian Smit | guitar moderne  


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Album Review

Savage & Smit: Of Course

Read "Of Course" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


It was pretty much etched in stone that by the middle of the Grateful Dead's second set--and those second sets of its post-Jerry Garcia spin-offs--there occurred a period of musical and mental improvisation they wisely named “Space." That indefinite stretch of musical time aptly defines the dreamscapes within of course. Hosted by the Hudson Valley collaborative of Rick Savage- trumpet/flugelhorn, Ian Smit-guitar/fx, pianist/composer Joe Vincent Tranchina, bassist Steve LaSpina and drummer Pete MacDonald the disc's ten lucid fluidities hit the ...

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Tom Nazziola: Reflections On Love

Read "Reflections On Love" reviewed by Neil Duggan


Many albums feature arrangements of standards, so what does it take to stand out from the crowd? Solutions to the problem include choosing the seldom-played lesser-known standards, changing the chords to reharmonize the songs while keeping the melody and changing the instrumentation throughout the album. Tom Nazziola uses all these tools on his album Reflections On Love. Nazziola is a pianist and Grammy-nominated composer of film scores and orchestral music. He has also contributed to Broadway productions and ...

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Experimental Jazz Guitarist Ian Smit To Release New Album '¿QUÉ? ' Featuring David Torn, Tom Rainey, And Scott Petito

Experimental Jazz Guitarist Ian Smit To Release New Album '¿QUÉ? ' Featuring David Torn, Tom Rainey, And Scott Petito

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James

Experimental jazz guitarist Ian Smit announces that he will release his new album ¿QUÉ? on December 5, 2025. The album features Scott Petito on acoustic/electric bass and as recording engineer, Tom Rainey on drums, Ian Smit on electric/acoustic guitar/effects, and David Torn on electric/national steel guitar/effects. Smit's purpose for making music with David, Tom and Scott was to be conversational with lots of dynamic ups and downs, which is very natural to all of them. That was the only stated ...

John Coltrane
saxophone
Bill Frisell
guitar, electric
David Torn
guitar, electric

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Raw Sienna

Mayanoah Music
2025

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¿QUÉ?

Self Produced
2025

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Reflections On Love

Goju Records
2024

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Of Course

Self Produced
2024

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Raw Sienna

From: Raw Sienna
By Ian Smit

Moonlight in Vermont

From: Reflections On Love
By Ian Smit

One Hand, One Heart

From: Reflections On Love
By Ian Smit

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