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Gilbert Isbin
‘Belgian guitarist Gilbert Isbin is one of the most interesting, dynamic and poetic composers writing for the guitar today.’ (Mel Bay)
Gilbert Isbin’s (Gilbert Dewaele) compositional and performing style defies genre, blending elements of contemporary classical, jazz, early music, world music and improvisation. In favorable comparisons with the likes of Ralph Towner and Egberto Gismonti, his music has been described as “oblique, subtle, and hauntingly beautiful.”
His compositions – more than 400 – for guitar(s), lute(s), ukulele, theorbo, renaissance guitar, baroque guitar, bass and ensemble, songs, are published by Mel Bay, Edizioni Curci (Berben) , The UK Lute Society, Hal Leonard- Beratio Music, GuitarbyMasters, Lantro Music, Golden River Music, Kameleon Editions Auurk Ed, VRT Publishing. They have been performed and recorded by a.o. guitarplayers Rob MacKillop (Uk), Sandro Di Stefano (It), Frabrice Desmets (Fr), Christian Vasseur (F), the Guitarquartet Four Times A Lady (B), Quartetto Chitarristico Italiano (It), the guitar Duo D’Atenas (Gr), Ukulele players, Donald Bousted (UK), Elisabeth Pfeiffer and Lee Ferguson (DE), the Spectra Ensemble (B), Peter Verhelst, De Camer van Musiecke (B), lutenists David Van Ooijen, (NL), Alberto Crugnola (IT), Stuart Walsh,(Uk), Thomas Schall (Sw), Andrés Bonilla (Argentina), Thomas Langlois (B), Stathis Skandalidis (Greece), Lieven Misschaert (B), Peter Sinneave (B), reedplayer Kurt Bertels (B), digital horn player Iain Cameron, (UK), flugelhorn player Stephen Altoft, UK, Renaissance guitarplayers, Davide Donelli (It), Dmitry Cherovko (RU), marimbaplayer Jonathan Bonny (B), singers Marie Schoenbock (F), Muriel Batbie Castell (F), Anna Nuytten (B), bassplayers Cameron Brown, Joe Fonda, Scott Walton, Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine), percussionplayers Vasilis Stefanopoulos, Chris Joris, pipa player Jie Ma.
Gilbert Isbin - Scott Walton: Recall
by AAJ Italy Staff
Gilbert Isbin dal Belgio e Scott Walton dalla West Coast americana si danno appuntamento nelle terre di mezzo fra musica classica d'avanguardia e jazz creativo contemporaneo. Del resto i due musicisti sanno ben frequentare entrambi i mondi, anche se Isbin è più abituato al primo e Walton è invece una figura abituale del secondo. L'elemento originale ...
Water With A Smile
Label: Jazz Halo
Released: 2005
Track listing: Picking A Flower; Suite For Dark Shades; Snake Talk; Simple Pleasure; That Voice Of Mine;
Chesnut Bird; Stories; Letters; The Ladybird Song; Virago; Water With A Smile
Gilbert Isbin Group: Water With A Smile
by Mark Sabbatini
Belgian guitarist Gilbert Isban is a formidable nylon finger-picking veteran on everything from classical to avant-garde. He makes his debut as a composer and arranger on his 13th album--and in this case, that proves to be a lucky number. Water With A Smile is another of those albums purporting the equation Latin + world ...
Gilbert Isbin: Plays Nick Drake - A Tribute To His Music
by Glenn Astarita
In somewhat of a loosely based connotation, Belgian based guitarist Gilbert Isbin could be the European counterpart to America’s legendary acoustic guitarist John Fahey. Mr. Isbin’s CDs have been reviewed here on All About Jazz in the recent past yet each offering from this master guitarist represents something distinct or thematic. Here, Isbin decides to revive ...
Gilbert Isbin & Geert Verbeke: Twins
by Robert Spencer
A most unusual and inviting disc: Gilbert Isbin plays guitar (classical and prepared), and Geert Verbeke plays a variety of percussion instruments. Together they make meditative, refreshing, and inviting music that often tends toward East Asian models both in sound quality and in sonic depth. There's a great variety to the sound. On “Secrets," for example, ...
