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Jack West
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A prolific musician, composer and bandleader, Jack West is a singular guitarist with an immediately recognizable sound. His early career saw the release six albums that received widespread critical acclaim, and included steady performances at leading festivals and venues including SXSW, Atlanta Jazz Festival, High Sierra Music Festival, and The Freight in Berkeley. In parallel with his music career, West is also an inventor and has patented various new musical instruments and solar technologies, pursuits that have born impressive fruit. Jack has recently ramped up his musical output with multiple projects, including two new albums and supporting tour dates in early 2026.
Essential Curvature
By Jack West
Label: Ota Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. "Big Ideas"
2. "Slinky"
3. "Interaction Shift"
4. "Not Touching"
5. "This Life May Be Monitored (For Quality Assurance)"
6. "Moon With a View"
7. "Something About the Dream"
8. "Quarter Past Stockton"
9. "Nigel's Dream"
10. "Oil Vein"
11. "Colored Shells"
12. "Closer to the Sky"
13. "Helicopter"
14. "Backwards Over Bend"
15. "True South"
16. "Christina's Song"
Guitars on Life
By Jack West
Label: Ota Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. "More Guitar"
2. "I Wish"
3. "Youth"
4. "Across the Bardo"
5. "Double Bounce"
6. "New Way Up"
7. "OO"
8. "Follow the Water Down"
Big Ideas
Album: Essential Curvature
By Jack West
Label: Ota Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 03:55
More Guitar
Album: Guitars on Life
By Jack West
Label: Ota Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 05:11
New Music From Politzer, Davis, West, Genovese & More
by Bob Osborne
This set moves through solo sketches, trio interplay, and full ensemble fire, tracing acoustic and electric textures across studio, live, and archival formats. It opens with flowing piano, moves into exploratory trio improvisation, and shifts between guitar meditations, reworked soul and rock standards, and tightly arranged ensemble writing. Abstract textures and ambient passages emerge mid-set, followed ...
Big Ideas
Album: Big Ideas
By Jack West
Label: Ahead Behind Music
Released: 2000
Duration: 04:04
Jack West & Curvature: Big Ideas
by Glenn Astarita
8-string acoustic guitarist Jack West melds organically induced homespun themes with blues and jazz overtones on his fifth release, titled Big Ideas. Here, “Jack West and Curvature” renders subtle intimacy along with pumping beats and atmospheric propositions as the guitarist makes every note count whether pursuing bluesy bottleneck slide choruses or jazzy lines amid enticing harmonic ...
