Results for "Alex Machacek"

Born in 1972, Machacek grew up in Vienna, where he began studying classical guitar at the age of eight and continued for six years. While his early interest in guitar outside the classical field tended toward rock (Queen, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden), he later gravitated toward jazz, with a particular interest in jazz guitar great Joe Pass. “I was pretty much a straight ahead player back then because that was what the people played around me. I learned the Great American songbook and just played as much as I could. When I was 13 or 14, somebody gave me a Joe Pass record and I became the biggest Joe Pass fan in the 14th district of Vienna

ALBUM

The Missing Song

By GERGO BORLAI

Label: Blue Canoe Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Billy; Gary; Dennis; Keith; Steve; Kirk; Peter; Terry; Vinnie.

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW May 29, 2020

Gergo Borlai: The Missing Song

By JIM WORSLEY

The Missing Song has been heralded as a tribute to Gergo Borlai's nine most influential drummers still alive and performing today. This is much more than just listing them and perhaps covering one of their songs. Borlai composed eight of the nine new songs on this album. He plays them all in the manner, or mindset, ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW March 19, 2019

Bob Holz: Silverthorne

By GLENN ASTARITA

Here's a solid jazz fusion album sans the megalomaniacal soloing sprees and impossibly complex time signatures brought to us by highly regarded session drummer and bandleader Bob Holz, who reaps the benefits of A-listers such as guitarist Mike Stern, trumpeter Randy Brecker and other notables. And while drummers are not frequently heralded for their compositions and ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW February 9, 2019

Allan Holdsworth: Live in Japan 1984

By JOHN KELMAN

The loss of Allan Holdsworth in the spring of 2017 remains the passing of one of the most distinctive and innovative guitarists of the past half century. Born in the U.K in 1946, but moving to the U.S.A. in the early '80s, most who are familiar with Holdsworth's work also know how vastly influential he became, ...

ALBUM

#awesome

By ALEX MACHACEK

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Disco Suite; Good Morning; Fonque de Cochon; You're Wrong; Turing; Holiday in Temelin; 6Toli; That's Deep...; Heavy Trash; Finally.

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW September 8, 2018

FAT: #awesome

By JOHN KELMAN

While the appropriately titled #awesome represents Alex Machacek's third album in six years with his (similarly witty and self-effacingly monikered) FAT (Fabulous Austrian Trio), this trifecta of virtuosic Austrian musicians goes much further back. Both bassist Raphael Preuschl and drummer Herbert Pirker appeared on roughly half of the expat-Austrian/Los Angeles-based guitarist's acclaimed 2006 Abstract Logix debut, ...

ARTICLE: TOP TEN LIST March 1, 2017

Top Ten Jazz Tracks for Surf Music

By ALAN BRYSON

The notion of jazz as surf music seems absurd at first blush, but it can work surprisingly well. Some time ago I learned this by happenstance while listening to an album by fusion guitarist Alex Machacek as I watched surf videos on YouTube. It was a true “ah ha" moment. Compared to the original soundtrack, Alex's ...

ALBUM

Ultimate Collectors' Edition

By U.K.

Label: Globe Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: Disc 1 (U.K. (Remastered CD): In the Dead of Night: 1) In the Dead of Night, 2) By the Light of Day, 3) Presto Vivace and Reprise; Thirty Years; Alaska; Time to Kill; Nevermore; Mental Medication.

Disc 2 (U.K. Extras CD: The band laying down tracks for the U.K. Album. Pre-vocal, guide keyboards, first solos: pre-overdub; pre-mix): In the Dead of Night; By the Light of Day; Presto Vivace and Reprise; Thirty Years; Alaska; Time to Kill; Nevermore; Mental Medication.

Disc 3: (U.K. (Blu Ray Audio, 24/96): In the Dead of Night: 1) In the Dead of Night, 2) By the Light of Day, 3) Presto Vivace and Reprise; Thirty Years; Alaska; Time to Kill; Nevermore; Mental Medication.

Disc 4 (Live in Boston CD, Radio Broadcast, Paradise Theater, July 11, 1978): Alaska; Time to Kill; The Only Thing She Needs; Carrying No Cross; Thirty Years; By the Light of Day - Part 2; Presto Vivace; In the Dead of Night; Caesar's Palace Blues.

Disc 5 (Live in Philadelphia CD, Radio Broadcast, Penn's Landing, August 8, 1978): Alaska; Time to Kill; The Only Thing She Needs; Carrying No Cross; Forever Until Sunday; Thirty Years; By the Light of Day - Part 2; Presto Vivace; In the Dead of Night; The Sahara of Snow; Caesar's Palace Blues.

Disc 6 (Live in Cleveland CD, Radio Broadcast, The Agora, September 18, 1978): Alaska; Time to Kill; The Only Thing She Needs; Carrying No Cross; Thirty Years; By the Light of Day - Part 2; Presto Vivace; In the Dead of Night; Caesar's Palace Blues.

Disc 7 (Danger Money Remastered CD): Danger Money; Rendezvous 6:02; The Only Thing She Needs; Caesar's Palace Blues; Nothing to Lose; Carrying No Cross.

Disc 8 (Danger Money Extras CD): Danger Money (recording drums); Carrying No Cross (recording drums); When Will You Realize (single b-side).

Disc 9 (Danger Money (Blu Ray Audio, 24/96): Danger Money; Rendezvous 6:02; The Only Thing She Needs; Caesar's Palace Blues; Nothing to Lose; Carrying No Cross.

Disc 10 (Night After Night (Extended Version CD, Part 1)): Night After Night; Danger Money; The Only Thing She Needs; Nothing to Lose; Bass Solo; Thirty Years; Carrying No Cross.

Disc 11 (Night After Night (Extended Version CD, Part 2)): Rendezvous 6:02; As Long As You Want Me Here; Alaska; Time to Kill; Violin Solo; Time to Kill; By the Light of Day, Part II; Presto Vivace; Drum Solo; In the Dead of Night; Caesar's Palace Blues.

Disc 12 (Night After Night (Original Version, Remastered CD)): Night After Night; Rendezvous 6:02; Nothing to Lose; As Long As You Want Me Here; Alaska; Time to Kill; Presto Vivace; In the Dead of Night; Caesar's Palace Blues.

Disc 13 (Night After Night (Blu Ray Audio, 24/96, Extended Version)): Night After Night; Danger Money; The Only Thing She Needs; Nothing to Lose; Bass Solo; Thirty Years; Carrying No Cross; Rendezvous 6:02; As Long As You Want Me Here; Alaska; Time to Kill; Violin Solo; Time to Kill; By the Light of Day, Part II; Presto Vivace; Drum Solo; In the Dead of Night; Caesar's Palace Blues.

Disc 14 (Reunion (Part 1) CD): In the Dead of Night; By the Light of Day; Presto Vivace and Reprise; Danger Money; Thirty Years; Alaska; Time to Kill; Starless; Carrying No Cross.

Disc 15 (Reunion (Part 2) CD): Violin Solo; Nevermore; One More Red Nightmare; Caesar's Palace Blues; The Only Thing She Needs; Rendezvous 6:02.

Disc 16: (Reunion (Blu Ray Audio, 24/96): In the Dead of Night; By the Light of Day; Presto Vivace and Reprise; Danger Money; Thirty Years; Alaska; Time to Kill; Starless; Carrying No Cross; Violin Solo; Nevermore; One More Red Nightmare; Caesar's Palace Blues; The Only Thing She Needs; Rendezvous 6:02.

Disc 17 (Bonus Disc (Interviews) CD): Eddie Jobson & John Wetton Interview (1978); John Wetton & Eddie Jobson (1979).

Disc 18 (Live in Nijmegen, December 17, 1979, Concertgebouw de Vereeniging CD): Danger Money; As Long As You Want Me Here; Thirty Years; Drum Solo; Night After Night; Alaska; Nothing to Lose; Bass Solo; Rendezvous 6:02; Nostalgia; Violin Solo; Presto Vivace; In the Dead of Night.

ALBUM

(Living the Dream)

By ALEX MACHACEK

Label: Abstract Logix
Released: 2016
Track listing: Disco Hit; Hippedie Hop; ByeBye; Argonaut; Flexibility; Quinte et Sens; Aux Délices de Tunis; L'Appel de la Mer; La Linea; Repeat After Me; Oh Lard.