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Multi award winning guitarist and composer MARTIN TAYLOR has established a unique musical career as an internationally acclaimed musician, and his inimitable style has seen him recognized as the world’s foremost exponent of solo jazz guitar playing. Although completely self taught, he has enjoyed a remarkable musical career spanning across five decades, and during that time has invented and developed a way of playing the guitar that is admired, and often imitated, by guitarists all over the world. As well as being a true guitar innovator, he is also a master concert performer, dazzling audiences with his solo shows, which combine virtuosity, emotion, humor, with a strong stage presence. He spends much of the year traveling the world, playing in concert halls in Europe, North America, Japan, Asia, and Australasia as well as presiding over the uniquely innovative Martin Taylor Guitar Academy Online. As well as his solo concerts and recordings, he has also collaborated with musicians from many different musical genre including, Stephane Grappelli, Jeff Beck, Chet Atkins, Bill Wyman, George Harrison, Dionne Warwick, Diane Schuur and Jamie Cullum. From 1979 to 1990 he toured the world and recorded over 20 albums with the French jazz violin legend STEPHANE GRAPPELLI

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Article: Chats with Cats

Al Naffah: The Filmmaker

Read "Al Naffah: The Filmmaker" reviewed by B.D. Lenz

by B.D. Lenz

One of the things I've come to appreciate about jazz is just how much history there is that I still don't know. Take Emily Remler. I'm a guitarist; I've spent most of my life listening to and playing jazz, and yet, embarrassingly, I knew very little about Remler before learning about Firefly: The Emily ...

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News: Crowdfunding Campaign

Emily Remler Feature Documentary Launches Kickstarter Campaign

Emily Remler Feature Documentary Launches Kickstarter Campaign

Aletheian Pictures has announced a Kickstarter campaign to help complete Firefly: The Emily Remler Story, the first feature-length documentary about the pioneering American jazz guitarist. Made in co-operation with the Emily Remler Estate, Berklee College of Music and Musicians Institute in Hollywood, the film will feature previously unseen concert performances and interview footage of the late ...

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Article: Album Review

Louis Stewart: Joyce Notes

Read "Joyce Notes" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Few books have provoked such acclaim and disdain as Ulysses (1922), James Joyce's dense and dazzling opus. Banned in the UK, subject to an obscenity trial in the USA, scrutinized, vilified and glorified, it has inspired and baffled in equal measure. Its experimental stream-of-consciousness style--liberally laced with puns and mordant humor--has proven a literary ...

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Article: Album Review

Louis Stewart & Brian Dunning: Alone Together

Read "Alone Together" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Re-releases and archival recordings are so abundant these days that it is easy to take for granted the work involved in dusting down and polishing up old recordings. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Dermot Rogers--the man at the helm of the revived Livia Records--Irish guitarist Louis Stewart's discography is being lovingly restored and reissued. Hats ...

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Article: Year in Review

Ian Patterson's Best Jazz (And Beyond) Albums Of 2024

Read "Ian Patterson's Best Jazz (And Beyond) Albums Of 2024" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

A terrific year for new jazz releases, the breath and depth of the music from all corners of the world underlining the robust health of jazz a quarter of the way into the 21st century. Northbound Pernille Bevort Gateway Music “There is a poetic ...

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Acoustic Guitar Duets

By Louis Stewart

Label: Livia Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Pick Yourself Up: Morning of the Carnival; Jive at Five; Billie's Bounce; Coming Through The Rye; Cherokee; Stompin' At The Savoy; Darn That Dream; Bernie' Tune; Farewell To Erin; Stompin' at the Savoy (alternative take).

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Article: Album Review

Louis Stewart & Martin Taylor: Acoustic Guitar Duets

Read "Acoustic Guitar Duets" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Jazz is littered with examples of starry duos aligning in one-off recording projects that do not quite match expectations. Often the lack of real spark comes down to too much deference being shown. When such duos do come off, however, say as with the collaborations between Bill Evans and Jim Hall, to cite one outstanding example, ...

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Article: Interview

Jenny Scheinman Brings the Experience of Awe

Read "Jenny Scheinman Brings the Experience of Awe" reviewed by Dean Nardi

by Dean Nardi

Play your violin for us like that wild, joyful hippie girl. You who look as if you might have come from the steppes of Russia instead of the Lost Coast, a remote region of northern California prone to earthquakes and mudslides. You who galloped into school on a snorting mare, its hair used to string the ...

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Article: In Pictures

The Jazz Loft Presents The John Monteleone Art of the Guitar Festival: The Anthony Wilson Organ Trio

Read "The Jazz Loft Presents The John Monteleone Art of the Guitar Festival: The Anthony Wilson Organ Trio" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

When summer settles in, jazz fans turn their focus toward festivals. No stranger to this scenario, The Jazz Loft, in Stony Brook, NY, draws plenty of ears and cheers with its John Monteleone Art of the Guitar Festival. A celebration of a master luthier, his instruments and those who wield them, this eagerly anticipated event offers ...


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