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MUSICIAN Born: October 15, 1957

Jack DeSalvo

Jack DeSalvo began guitar lessons at age eight. By his early teens he was rehearsing and performing with local rock groups. The first transformation from interest in pop music to other forms occurred when he bought an LP based on its cover when he was 11. The record, already a classic by that time, was Fresh Cream. Hearing the track Sleepy Time Time inspired his early research into the Blues, including BB King’s Live at the Regal and recordings by Albert King and others. By 15 DeSalvo had picked up harmonica and mandolin and started to use a bottle-neck slide after seeing Johnny Winter and Duane Allman perform. While trying to commandeer his teen-aged garage band’s repertoire to more blues oriented material, his friend Steve Aprahamian (now an eminent composer) played him Birds of Fire by the Mahavishnu Orchestra

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While We Sleep

By JACK DESALVO

Label: Unseen Rain Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: While We Sleep; Reservoir; Pramantha; Lost Words; Shamanic Verses; Flickering; Labyrinth; Walking Damp Ground; Nagna.

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Quintrepid

By QUINTREPID

Label: Unseen Rain Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Seeing Through The Ground; February Thaw; All Are; Get Well; Madras; Because It Sees You.

ARTICLE: MULTIPLE REVIEWS November 4, 2020

Guitarist Jack DeSalvo: While We Sleep & Quintrepid on Unseen Rain

By MARK SULLIVAN

Guitarist/composer Jack DeSalvo has had a long, diverse career emphasizing fusion and free playing. His most visible gig was with Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, but since co-founding the record label Unseen Rain Records he has played on or produced a wide variety of music. For example, his duet album Soldani Dieci Anni (Unseen Rain Records, ...

NEWS: FESTIVAL June 12, 2017

10th Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival To Be Held Across Two Sundays In Brooklyn’s Urban Meadow, June 11 & 18 From 1-6 PM

“The Red Hook Jazz Festival exists contentedly on the margins, like its namesake neighborhood and much of the music on its bill…The mood in the audience was neighborly, with a higher ratio of small children to youngish adults than I’ve seen at any musical event not expressly pitched as a kids’ show.” —Nate Chinen, New York ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW July 5, 2016

Dom Minasi & Jack DeSalvo: Soldani Dieci Anni

By MARK SULLIVAN

Guitarist Dom Minasi is known as an experimentalist and free player, so there is much in this set of acoustic duets with fellow guitarist Jack DeSalvo that will confound expectations. Opener “The Indelible Delible" is a free improvisation with the expected outside playing and flurries of notes--but there is also some delicate textural playing. Then Minasi's ...

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