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Take Five With Agustin Barreto
by AAJ Staff
Meet Agustin Barreto: Barreto, a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico started playing electric bass at age 16 and soon discovered his gift and passion for music. After a few years of “gigging around town" with a local rock band, he landed several jobs playing on local TV shows. With the encouragement of his peers he ...
Aguilar Amplification Announces Master Class with Gary Willis
Aguilar Amplification, maker of high-quality bass amplifiers, speaker cabinets and accessories for bassists is pleased to announce the continuation of their Artist Series Master Classes on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 with endorsing artist, Gary Willis. An in-demand clinician, Willis has lectured in over 20 countries and currently teaches improvisation and arranging at the prestigious Escola Superior ...
Actual Fiction
By Gary Willis
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Released: 2007
Track listing: Cartoon Fetish; Smells Like a Party; PodCast; Say Never; Eye Candy; Take Me to Your Leader; Mean Streak; If Only It Could Talk; Tio Loco; Based on a True Story.
Slaughterhouse 3
By Gary Willis
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Released: 2007
Track listing: Slaughterhouse 3; Life's Story; Let's Go; Toxic; Booty Duty; Another Chance; Trapeze/Nobody's Friend; Stinky; Sleep Deprivation; Moof; Interactive Show.
Gary Willis: Something to Say
by Ian Patterson
Sixteen years in Tribal Tech, the most innovative of post-Weather Report fusion bands, confirmed the status of Gary Willis as a modern-day bass icon. Picking up where Jaco Pastorius left off, Willis's explorations are stretching the possibilities of the fretless bass as a lead instrument, as evidenced on two 2007 releases, the storming Slaughterhouse 3 and ...
Gary Willis: Actual Fiction
by John Kelman
As co-founder, with guitarist Scott Henderson, of now-defunct fusion group Tribal Tech, bassist Gary Willis has never been averse to technology. By the time the group released its eponymous fourth album in 1991, there were times when it was nearly impossible to tell who was doing what. With the exception of drummers Kirk Covington (ex-Tribal Tech) ...
Gary Willis: Actual Fiction
by Ian Patterson
One might be forgiven for thinking that bassist extraordinaire Gary Willis has the titles of the first two songs on Actual Fiction the wrong way round. “Cartoon Fetish is a slightly frantic drum 'n' bass rave with a Prodigy-like bullishness that would be ideal to rock a party and rattle your neighbors' windows. The wonderfully titled ...
Gary Willis/Kirk Covington/Llibert Fortuny: Slaughterhouse 3
by Ian Patterson
The musical collaboration between bassist Gary Willis and drummer Kirk Covington goes back a long way, to college bands and later with jazz/fusion band Tribal Tech. Over twenty-five years later (and seven years after the demise of Tribal Tech) the two musicians are still creating great rhythms together on Slaughterhouse 3.. Joined by adventurous Spanish saxophonist ...
Gary Willis / Llibert Fortuny / Kirk Covington: Slaughterhouse 3
by John Kelman
Anyone familiar with electric bassist Gary Willis (co-founder of the powerhouse fusion outfit Tribal Tech) and drummer Kirk Covington (a longtime member of that same group) will know that any saxophone trio they're involved with will be far removed from convention. Add saxophonist Llibert Fortuny, a rising star on the Spanish jazz scene, and the result ...
Scott Henderson: Live!
by John Kelman
While guitarist Scott Henderson has been mining post-Weather Report fusion territory for years with Tribal Tech, he has also been exploring a more blues-based direction with recordings including Dog Party, Tore Down House and, most notably, '02's stripped-down Well to the Bone, one of the most potent examples of the power trio to be released in ...
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