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Nicolas Meier Trios: Breeze

Read "Breeze" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Breeze is a guitar trio album. To be more precise, it's a Trios album--a combination of original tunes and standards being performed by acoustic and electric bands. The result is an imaginative and creative recording that further establishes Nicolas Meier's reputation as one of the finest guitarists on the contemporary jazz scene. Most ...

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Nicolas Meier: Journey

Read "Journey" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Swiss-born, UK-based guitarist Nicolas Meier dedicates Journey to his wife Songul, for sharing “this beautiful life journey" with him. Thematically, the eight tunes can readily be viewed as representing such a journey--but it is equally successful in evoking a single day's walk through a beautiful and mysterious landscape, with Meier's band members as fellow travelers.

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Nicolas Meier: Journey

Read "Journey" reviewed by Chris May


Turkish music and jazz make compatible bedfellows, so it's curious that congress takes place so infrequently outside Turkey. In the late 1950s, pianist Dave Brubeck combined Turkish 9/8 rhythm patterns with classical rondo form and the blues to create “Blue Rondo A La Turk" on Time Out (Columbia, 1959). In the 1980s, Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel ...

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Journey

Label: MGP Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Sunrise; Journey; Mountain Baba; Silent Lands; Summit; Promenade In The Lantern Garden; Marble Dance; Sunset.


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