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Anthony Jackson / Yiorgos Fanakas: Interspirit
by John Kelman
He's performed with a seemingly countless array of artists--from Roberta Flack and Steely Dan to Chick Corea, John Scofield, and Steve Khan--but electric contrabassist Anthony Jackson, now approaching 60, is that rare consummate sideman who has never released an album as a leader/co-leader. Until now. Interspirit teams the inveterate bassist with Greek bassist Yiorgos Fakanas for ...
Frank Gambale: Natural Selection
by Jack Huntley
Frank Gambale, early Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) whiz-kid and longtime guitarist in the Chick Corea Elektric Band, is known for his sweep-picking technique, fretboard virtuosity, and penchant for fusion jazz. But with his 2006 outing, Natural High (Wombat Records), and now 2010's Natural Selection, Gambale has shown off a more straight-ahead style that wonderfully couples ...
The Best of GHS
Label: Tone Center
Released: 2009
Track listing: Bad Intent; Dangerous Curves; Sink; Spirit of Dun Dun (drum solo); Katahdin; Yang; Nostalgia (bass solo); The Throne of Savitar; Isle of Few (guitar solo); All in Your Head; Geo 100; The Challenger.
Take Five With Johnny J Rivera
by AAJ Staff
Meet Johnny j Rivera:Johnny (j) Rivera is a guitarist/songwriter, multi instrumentalist, and vocalist originally from Southern California, currently living in Las Vegas Nevada. He's been writing songs most his life. Some of his influences range from Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind and Fire, Heatwave, Steely Dan, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Paul Jackson Jr, Joe Sample, ...
Steve Smith and Vital Information: Vitalive!
by John Kelman
Recorded on tour in 1988 and originally released in 1991, Vitalive! is, in the words of drummer Steve Smith, “the most 'jazz' version of Vital Information to date." It would be easy to argue with Smith, even though he's the group's leader, that VI has always been a jazz band, as evidenced by Come On In ...
GHS: The Best of GHS
by Woodrow Wilkins
GHS is almost like listening to The Police without a human voice. The letters are the initials guitarist Frank Gambale, bassist Stu Hamm, and drummer Steve Smith. GHS is the anti-smooth ensemble from Tone Center Records. Their intent was to represent music fans who wanted more improvisation and more interaction among the players. Gambale ...
Take Five With Domina Catrina
by AAJ Staff
Instrument(s):Left-handed acoustic guitar, high-strung acoustic guitar, virtual instruments (basses, percussions, ethnic instruments, etc) triggered from M-Audio oxygen-8 keyboard into MacBook using Apple loops (usually modified in some way), Indonesian flute (suling), soprano recorder, alto recorder.Teachers and/or influences? I spent six or seven months from September '86 studying guitar at the Musicians' Institute. ...
Natural High
Label: Wombat
Released: 2006
Track listing: You Are All the Things; We'll Remember December; D's Living Room; Fortune; The Long and Short of It; Have You Met Tom Jones? Principesa; Scottish Highlands; Another Challenger.
Frank Gambale: Parallel Lines
by John Kelman
Emerging in the mid-1980s, Australian-born guitarist Frank Gambale rose quickly to the upper end of the fusion food chain. While Scott Henderson was the first guitarist in keyboard legend Chick Corea's Elektric Band, it's Gambale who is best remembered for his work on a string of the band's albums beginning with Light Years (GRP, 1987). And ...
Frank Gambale: Natural High
by John Kelman
Committed fusioners might be disappointed when they read the back cover of shred-meister Frank Gambale's latest release, Natural High. After all, the Aussie guitarist is best-known for his high-volume, high-velocity chops as a member of Chick Corea's Elektric Band and on his own series of albums, including Raison D'être (Wombat, 2004)--which, featuring his innovative Neauveau Tuning, ...
