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Alex Goodman

Winner of both first prize and the Public's Choice Award at the 2014 Montreux Jazz Festival International Guitar Competition, Alex Goodman has been hailed as "a definite musical voice" (Guitar International), “a jazz phenomenon the world over” (Birmingham Times), and “among the best in jazz today” (Improvijazzation).

In 2013, Alex's CD Bridges was nominated for a JUNO, Canada's highest musical honor as Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year. Since moving to New York in 2012, Goodman has recorded with artists including John Patitucci, Dick Oatts and Rich Perry and performed with a variety of notable jazz musicians like Charles Lloyd, Ari Hoenig, John Ellis and John Riley. Alex was awarded a 2013 ASCAP Herb Alpert Jazz Composer Award, has written a book of solo guitar etudes and has composed extensively for jazz groups, chamber groups, orchestras, big bands, and string quartets.

Alex has performed at top New York City jazz clubs such as Smalls, the Appel Room at Lincoln Center, Mezzrow, 55 Bar, Smoke, National Sawdust and Cornelia Street Cafe, at prestigious international venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Massey Hall in Toronto, Club Unterfahrt in Munich as well as at jazz festivals including Winter Jazz Fest in New York, the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Montreux Jazz Festival. Alex has also played across the world in countries including Bulgaria, India, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Belgium. He is a graduate of the Master's program in Jazz Performance at the Manhattan School of Music.

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Collings guitars


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Album Review

Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows: Heartland Radio

Read "Heartland Radio" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


This ear-grabbing date from Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows--the band's third release, following its eponymous debut (in 2019) and Architecture of Storms (SoundSpore Records, 2021)--is a sonic mirror, reflecting the multihyphenate leader's recent travels in both life and sound. Influenced by an odyssey across inland America, sights encountered along the way, and the adventitious, airwaves-dictated soundtrack to the journey, Heartland Radio offers up a striking portrait of a Promethean artist with an unfettered imagination. Opening on ...

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Mareike Wiening: Reveal

Read "Reveal" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Mareike Wiening is a German drummer/composer who began her career in New York, and now divides her time between there and Köln, Germany. On her third album, she continues making music with her New York-based working band, an increasingly rare situation in contemporary jazz. It provides her an opportunity for more compositional experimentation with each release. “Time for Priorities" begins abstractly, a duet between drums and guitarist Alex Goodman's spacey electronics, before introducing the swinging theme and the rest of ...

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Lucas Pino: Covers

Read "Covers" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Covers is a quartet date in which New York-based tenor saxophonist Lucas Pino “covers" half a dozen generally pleasing songs written by his contemporaries, alongside one each by Charlie Parker ("Relaxin' at Camarillo") and Duke Pearson ("New Girl"). Pino's smooth, articulate tenor saxophone is reinforced by guitarist Alex Goodman, bassist Rick Rosato and drummer Allan Mednard. This represents something of a departure for Pino who usually records with larger groups--including his No Net Nonet--and seldom covers other ...

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Remy Le Boeuf: Architecture of Storms

Read "Architecture of Storms" reviewed by Jack Bowers


It's hard to become bored or complacent when listening to Architecture of Storms, alto saxophonist Remy Le Boeuf's second album as leader of the twenty-member Assembly of Shadows orchestra. Every song is quite different from the others, and every one has its moments of shapeliness and charm. Le Boeuf arranged every number and composed all but Justin Vernon's “Minnesota, WI" and the album's nameplate, which he co-wrote with poet Sara Pirkle, he asserts, “on a brooding stormy ...

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Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows: Architecture of Storms

Read "Architecture of Storms" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Remy Le Boeuf è uno dei nomi emergenti nell'ambito dell'arrangiamento e della conduzione orchestrale. Dopo il sorprendente Assembly of Shadows del 2019, il sassofonista e bandleader californiano (a New York dal 2004) torna con la sua orchestra irrobustita nel numero e nella qualità dei singoli componenti. Tra i nuovi ingressi troviamo in particolare il trombettista Mike Rodriguez e il sassofonista Dayna Stephens, che caratterizzano un paio di brani, anche se il lavoro di Le Boeuf è prettamente ...

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Mareike Wiening: Future Memories

Read "Future Memories" reviewed by Mark Corroto


It is interesting that in today's creative music world, a jazz drummer cannot just be a jazz drummer. There are so many great drummers that they have to also be composers, band leaders, and sometimes van drivers. A short list includes Tyshawn Sorey, Allison Miller, Ches Smith, and Terri Lyne Carrington. Add to that list Mareike Wiening, the German-born artist with (now) deep New York roots. Her release Metropolis Paradise (Greenleaf Music, 2019) brought her music critical attention and acclaim, ...

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Alex Goodman: Impressions in Blue and Red

Read "Impressions in Blue and Red" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Con questo splendido doppio album, Alex Goodman esce dal limbo dei talentosi chitarristi emergenti per entrare a pieno titolo tra i solisti e compositori più interessanti del jazz contemporaneo. Era proprio ora. All'età di 34 anni, con sette dischi da leader e prestigiosi premi internazionali (tra cui la vittoria al Montreux International Jazz Guitar del 2014), il chitarrista e compositore canadese ottiene i meritati riconoscimenti della critica con un'opera particolarmente matura. Un concept album che vuol associare ...

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Primary Instrument

Guitar

Location

New York City

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Heartland Radio

SoundSpore Records
2024

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Covers

Outside in Music
2023

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Reveal

Greenleaf Music
2023

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Earth Voices

Empress Music Group
2021

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Future Memories

Greenleaf Music
2021

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Architecture of Storms

Soundspore Records
2021

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Finis

From: Earth Voices
By Alex Goodman

If I Loved You

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

View in Perspective

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

View in Perspective (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Sonata No. 12 Adagio

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Sonata No. 12 Adagio (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

E.T.

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Occam's Razor

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Toys

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

In Heaven Everything is Fine

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Impending

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Impending (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Circles in a Circle

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Choose

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

I'll Never Be the Same

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Still Life With Skull

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Still Life with Skull (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Cobalt Blue

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Zen

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Zen (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Space Behind Eugene Boch

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Space Behind Eugene Boch (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Moods

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Blue Shade

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Blue Shade (Intro)

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

No Man's Land

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

No Man's Land

From: Impressions in Blue and Red
By Alex Goodman

Questions

From: Second Act
By Alex Goodman

Family Breakfast

From: Border Crossing
By Alex Goodman

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