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David Gilmore: Energies of Change

Read "Energies of Change" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne

David Gilmore's career started off with a bang. He worked with Steve Coleman through the 1990s, appearing on at least nine recordings either led, or instigated, by the renowned saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and recent MacArthur Award recipient. Since emerging from Coleman's M-BASE fold, Gilmore has worked with a stunning variety of artists both inside and outside ...

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Racing Green - Guitar Solos 1959/62

By Grant Green

Label: Octave
Released: 2015
Track listing: Miss Ann's Tempo; Blues For Willarene; Green With Envy; God Bless The Child; Come Sunrise; So What; Blues In Maude's Flat; Grandstand; Old Folks; Mambo Inn; All The Gin Is Gone; Space Flight; Mr Lucky; Yesterdays; Reaching Out; Uh Huh; Willow Weep For Me; The Mode; Minor Impulse; Get Your Kicks On Route 66; Have You Got A Penny Benny; Funky Mama;

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The 1961 Summer Sessions

By Grant Green

Label: American Jazz Classics
Released: 2015
Track listing: Sunday Morning; Freedom March; Sunday Mornin'; Exodus; God Bless The Child; Come Sunrise; So What; Tracin' Tracey; Grantstand; Grantstand; My Funny Valentine; Old Folks; Green's Greenery; Blues In Maude's Flat; Remembering; All The Things You Are; If I Had You; Love Walked In; I'll Remember April; You And The Night And The Music; I Remember You; You Stepped Out Of A Dream; If I Had You (Alternative Take);

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Oleo

By Grant Green

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2015
Track listing: Oleo; Little Girl Blue; Tune Up; Hip Funk; My Favorite Things;

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Article: Album Review

Danny Mixon: Pass It On

Read "Pass It On" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

Despite his low profile, veteran pianist Danny Mixon has quite a history. His career has included stints playing with Betty Carter, Kenny Dorham, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Frank Foster, Grant Green, Pharoah Sanders, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Charles Mingus, and many others. Most of Pass It On finds him alternating between solos and trios. Many of the ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Gabriel Vicéns: Puerto Rican Jazz Guitar

Read "Gabriel Vicéns: Puerto Rican Jazz Guitar" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

Puerto Rican jazz guitarist/composer Gabriel Vicéns graduated from the Music Conservatory of Puerto Rico as the first jazz guitarist, and has gone on to teach guitar at the Music Department at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. He recorded his first solo album Point in Time at age 23; his second album Days has been released ...

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Article: Guitarist's Rendezvous

Steve Herberman, Hristo Vitchev, Rick Stone and Harvey Valdes

Read "Steve Herberman,  Hristo Vitchev, Rick Stone and Harvey Valdes" reviewed by Dom Minasi

by Dom Minasi

Welcome back to Guitarists Rendezvous, our third installment in a series that introduces readers to emerging or established guitarists who fly just under the radar of public recognition. Each will field the same four questions and we've included audio and video so you can sample their music. This installment includes a diverse group ...

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Dave Stryker: Messin' with Mister T

Read "Messin' with Mister T" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Il “Mister T" del titolo è Stanley Turrentine, il sax tenore scomparso quindici anni fa che ha rappresentato uno dei musicisti più influenti nella carriera di Dave Stryker. Il chitarrista ha collaborato con Turrentine per oltre un decennio e ora lo celebra ospitando dieci eminenti tenoristi contemporanei. L'organico base è il classico organ trio che l'ha ...

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Hans Luchs: Time Never Pauses

Read "Time Never Pauses" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Chicago-based guitarist Hans Luchs draws more from the recent than far past. More John Abercrombie and John Scofield than Wes Montgomery or Grant Green. His debut recording Time Never Pauses is a collection of eight original compositions and two transformed standards reveals the continued refining of modern jazz composition well past the head-solo section-head style of ...

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Hans Luchs: Time Never Pauses

Read "Time Never Pauses" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Not much can be said about Hans Luchs aside from the fact that he lives in Chicago, looks to be fairly young and plays an intense, assertive and agile guitar on Time Never Pauses, which, incidentally, is Luchs' recorded debut as leader of his own group. Luchs is also a writer who composed eight of the ...


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