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Jimmy Herring: Lifeboat

Read "Jimmy Herring: Lifeboat" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Jimmy Herring Lifeboat Abstract Logix 2008 Jimmy Herring is widely considered to be one of the greatest electric guitarists in the world. Long years lighting up the music of the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Jazz is Dead, Project Z and--in recent years--the Dead, Phil Lesh and Friends, and Widespread Panic have ...

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Jimmy Herring: Lifeboat

Read "Lifeboat" reviewed by John Kelman


No matter how adept they are at finding the place where rock energy and jazz harmony meets, fusion guitarists almost invariably favor one side of the equation. As raw and visceral as John McLaughlin and John Scofield can be, jazz remains the core of who they are, just as Jeff Beck and Carlos Santana are rockers ...

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Guitarist Jimmy Herring's Debut Record with Greg Osby and Derek Trucks

Guitarist Jimmy Herring's Debut Record with Greg Osby and Derek Trucks

Lifeboat is the first solo album from American guitar phenomenon Jimmy Herring, known for his amazing guitar work with the Allman Brothers, The Dead, Phil Lesh, Aquarium Rescue Unit, Jazz is Dead and currently holding down the lead guitar chair for Widespread Panic. Lifeboat features saxophonist Greg Osby as well as young guitar sensation Derek Trucks. ...

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John McLaughlin: Floating Point

Read "Floating Point" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Questo nuovo album del chitarrista inglese John McLaughlin è sicuramente una delle cose migliori che l'eroe della chitarra fusion ha realizzato negli ultimi vent'anni. Il suono è nervoso e appassionato, il contesto è stimolante, i nuovi partner (per buona parte indiani) si dimostrano assolutamente all'altezza anche in un contesto fusion e la musica scorre via impetuosa ...

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Tony Grey: Chasing Shadows

Read "Chasing Shadows" reviewed by Ian Patterson


The opening fifty seconds of unaccompanied bass-playing on “Chasing Shadows," the title track, demonstrate beyond a doubt that Tony Grey is an exceptional talent, finely balancing technical prowess with musical creativity. It comes as no surprise, therefore, to learn that one of his early teachers was guitarist John McLaughlin. Grey has played with an impressive list ...

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Tony Grey: Chasing Shadows

Read "Tony Grey: Chasing Shadows" reviewed by Phil DiPietro


Tony Grey Chasing Shadows Abstract Logix 2008 It seems much less than four years ago that electric bassist Tony Grey released his scintillating debut, ...Moving, which excelled most in the way the writing highlighted the talents of each colorist the leader added to his expansive palette, however formidable ...

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John McLaughlin: Floating Point

Read "Floating Point" reviewed by Ian Patterson


In the first five years of the '70s, English guitarist John McLaughlin put together not one, but two of the most ground-breaking, genre-bending and ultimately influential groups ever assembled. The volcanic Mahavishnu Orchestra--which burned fiercely before being consumed in its own flames--took the jazzrock idiom to heights still unmatched to this day. Shakti on the other ...

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John McLaughlin: Floating Point

Read "John McLaughlin: Floating Point" reviewed by John Kelman


John McLaughlin Floating Point Abstract Logix 2008 While the term fusion has long been associated with the specific fusing of jazz and rock, ever-shrinking distances in the global community has led to viewing the term as much more all-encompassing. Few have been as successful as ...

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Rodrigo Rodriguez - Music That Illuminates Your Life... Volume One

Rodrigo Rodriguez - Music That Illuminates Your Life... Volume One

Gemini Sun Records is proud to bring you Music that illuminates your lifeVolume One. Volume One explores the more contemplative and surreal repertoire of our artists, including some of our favorite tracks from 2002, David Arkenstone, Nicholas Gunn, Mars Lasar, Loren Gold, and Johannes Linstead to name a few. These specially selected songs create an ambience ...

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Across the East - Rodrigo Rodriguez

Across the East - Rodrigo Rodriguez

"Across the East" is the second album, the pieces on the present recording are thrilling and profoundly musical KZN release by the Spanish composer. The album brings to a conclusion through three years of intensive work where Rodrigo was recording in the different studios, in Spain and Japan. Solo guitars, kena, clarinets, duets for shakuhachi flute ...


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