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Sandy Bull: Blend
by Chris May
Long before the description world music" had been coined, the outward-looking guitarist and oudist Sandy Bull laid it out with drummer Billy Higgins on the Vanguard albums Fantasias For Guitar And Banjo (1963) and Inventions (1965), which blended jazz, Levantine, Caribbean, Brazilian and rock music. The mesmerising Blend" is the 22-minute opening track on Fantasias.
Guitar Gods & Goddesses: An Alternative Top Ten Albums
by Chris May
Although it has been present in jazz since the 1920s, when it was routinely used in rhythm sections, as a solo instrument the guitar struggled to make itself heard--literally--until the second half of the 1930s, when reliable pick-ups and portable amplifiers became available. Foremost among the pioneers of the electrified instrument was Charlie Christian, a member ...
Steffen Basho-Junghans: The Dancer on the Hill
by Mario Calvitti
After a long period of silence due to health problems, and difficulties in finding a recording outlet for his work, German guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans is back with a new album, released by the English label Architects of Harmonic Rooms & Records, only available on vinyl and as digital download, similar to what was done in 2009 ...
Steffen Basho-Junghans: The Dancer on the Hill
by Mario Calvitti
Dopo un lungo periodo di silenzio causato da problemi di salute e difficoltà nel trovare uno sbocco discografico per i propri lavori, il chitarrista tedesco Steffen Basho-Junghans ritorna con un nuovo album, pubblicato dalla etichetta inglese Architects of Harmonic Rooms & Records, disponibile solamente su vinile e digital download. La musica di Basho-Junghans ha ...
Rodrigo Tavares: Congo
by Chris May
Guitarist Rodrigo Tavares cites his primary influences as bossa nova and tropicália pioneers João Gilberto, Dorival Caymmi, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Tom Zé. But you would not guess it from Congo, a collection of lyrical instrumentals which reference Brazil only in passing, and which consciously avoid any recognisable sense of ...
Ross Hammond, Sameer Gupta: Upward
by Mario Calvitti
Dopo aver pubblicato lo scorso anno il bellissimo Flight, album di sola chitarra acustica dove rivisitava la tradizione blues e gospel nello stile American Primitive, il chitarrista Ross Hammond si prende un'altra vacanza dall'ambiente jazzistico dove è più conosciuto con un nuovo lavoro completamente acustico. Questa volta si fa accompagnare dal percussionista di origini indiane Sameer ...
Michael Gregory Jackson: Clarity
by Clifford Allen
Michael Gregory Jackson Clarity ESP-Disk 2010 (1976) In the musical climate of 2010, the fact that a diverse range of musical styles and approaches can be combined is something often taken for granted. Creative music has long recombined musics from various non-Western sources as well as jazz and Western art ...