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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.

Album

Essential Curvature

By Jack West

Label: Ota Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Big Ideas; Slinky; Interaction Shift; Not Touching; This Life May Be Monitored (For Quality Assurance); Moon With a View; Something About the Dream; Quarter Past Stockton; Nigel's Dream; Oil Vein; Colored Shells; Closer to the Sky; Helicopter; Backwards Over Bend; True South; Christina's Song.

Album

Guitars on Life

By Jack West

Label: Ota Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: More Guitar; I Wish; Youth; Across the Bardo; Double Bounce; New Way Up; OO; Follow the Water Down.

Song of the Day

Big Ideas

March 14, 2026

Album: Essential Curvature
By Jack West
Label: Ota Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 03:55

Song of the Day

More Guitar

March 8, 2026

Album: Guitars on Life
By Jack West
Label: Ota Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 05:11

Article: Album Review

Jack West/Walter Strauss: Guitars on Life

Read "Guitars on Life" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
February 9, 2026

Emerging from the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990s, acoustic guitarist Jack West forged a new style on 6-and 8-string instruments that integrates percussive use of the strings and guitar body with melody and harmony. Spicing his tunes with repeated harmonics and slide flourishes and incorporating influences from jazz, folk, rock and Americana music, West ...

News: Recording

Composer, Guitarist, and Inventor Jack West Releases 'Guitars On Life,' An Acoustic Guitar Duo Album Featuring West and Guitarist Walter Strauss

February 8, 2026

West Also Releases Essential Curvature, a Double-LP Compilation of Recordings Made with His Group Curvature Between 1996 and 2003 Both Albums are Available on Vinyl and Digital Platforms via Otá Records Composer, guitarist, and inventor Jack West will release two albums on Otá Records (the label behind most of Omar Sosa’s recordings). The first, Guitars On ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Politzer, Davis, West, Genovese & More

by Bob Osborne
December 25, 2025

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 ...