Ken Rose

Ken Rose: Slowpoke

by Michael P. Gladstone
January 14, 2004

This is yet another fine new guitarist waiting to be discovered by the public and other plectrists, a Bostonian product who savored the exposure to famed guitarists passing through town. Mr. Rose reports being influenced by Jim Hall, Mick Goodrick, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Bill Frisell, John Abercrombie and Mike Stern and Randy Roos, with whom he studied. Frankly, I found that his delivery is quite different from the harsher end of that group (e.g. Stern, Scofield and to many ...