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James Beaudreau
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"Picking like this is always welcome," says guitar great Eugene Chadbourne, writing about James Beaudreau for All Music Guide. Beaudreau's playing reveals, he says, "a mind that can be provoked by intervals and melodies seemingly off-kilter with reality." Paris Transatlantic praised the guitarist's "Nick Drake-meets-Derek Bailey improvisations." All About Jazz lauded his "impressive inventiveness" and the "delicious ephemeral quality" of the music on his debut CD, Java Street Bagatelles. And Berlin-based website Tokafi.com called that CD "one of the most astounding between-the-genre[s] albums of 2006."
Fresh Twigs
Label: Workbench
Released: 2009
Track listing: Opening Bell; Gold Coast; Montmartre; Wick; Strayhorn; Twig; Rowing/Haint; Pacifico; Parlor City; Fresh Twigs.
James Beaudreau: Fresh Twigs
by Florence Wetzel
James Beaudreau's 2006 Java St. Bagatelles (Workbench) made a nice splash in the music press, with glowing reviews in The Wire, All Music Guide, and Tokafi.com. Fresh Twigs is an equally compelling follow-up, featuring the delicious picking and melodic strengths of Java St. combined with mixing room agility and intriguing compositional elements. Inspired by pioneering producers ...
Java Street Bagatelles
Label: Workbench
Released: 2006
Track listing: Welcome; Pressed Grass; Meadow March; Hare; Plum; Nebula; The Unexpected Guest; Tea and
Scone; Piano Roll; Tangerine; Blimp; Northward Vale; Maple Moon; Overhedge; Daffodil;
Wheelhouse; August; Walnut Star; The Robot Prince; Spanish Moss; Under the Tree on the Hill;
Twilight Time; Wafer Bridge; Fort Tryon.
Java St. Bagatelles
Label: Workbench
Released: 2006
Track listing: Welcome; Pressed Grass; Meadow March; Hare; Plum; Nebula; The Unexpected Guest; Tea and Scone; Piano Roll; Tangerine; Blimp; Northward Vale; Maple Moon; Overhedge; Daffodil; Wheelhouse; August; Walnut Star; The Robot Prince; Spanish Moss; Under the Tree on the Hill; Twilight Time; Wafer Bridge; Fort Tryon.
James Beaudreau: Java St. Bagatelles
by Florence Wetzel
There's something refreshingly honest and personal about Java St. Bagatelles. This solo guitar recording is the first release by James Beaudreau, who has appeared as a sideman with The Billy Nayer Show and Grand Mal. The CD was recorded in the kitchen of Beaudreau's former apartment on Java Street in Brooklyn, and the music has a ...
James Beaudreau: Java Street Bagatelles
by John Eyles
This album contains a series of 24 brief, home-produced solo guitar pieces, garnered from many more that were recorded over a two year period. The pieces are mostly improvised with a few compositions thrown in. Mainly, they run into each other, giving a unified, seamless flow to the music. As the album title suggests, there is ...