Results for "Mike Kennedy"
Mike Kennedy

Mike Kennedy is a Philadelphia based guitarist, composer, and music educator. Over the last 20 years, Mike's performance schedule has covered much of the East Coast and parts of California,Texas, Florida and Ohio.He has performed with commercially known international pop artists, such as Lou Rawls, Michael Feinstein, Bernadette Peters, Peter Nero and The Philly Pops and The Midtown Men as well as a long list of Philadelphia artists. Mike’s current project, Landfall, has been described as a three-way between Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini and Danny Gatton. Landfall is an anthology of instrumental songs inspired by the power, beauty and vastness of the American western and southwestern landscape
Message

Label: TT Productions
Released: 2021
Track listing: Let's Go!; Message; Zipline; Bubble; Fearless; Dusk; Mablestates; In The Weeds; Moon.
Ten

Label: TT Productions
Released: 2019
Track listing: Traveler;
Pine;
Lemmings;
Orange Yellow And Red;
Ya Might Feel A Little Pressure;
North Shore.
Tom Tallitsch: Ten

Ten is a recording that resides and functions well in a stylistic no man's land. Tenor and soprano saxophonist Tom Tallitsch and his clever band display little interest in paying homage to easily recognizable jazz styles; yet, they don't make a point of abandoning traditional practices either. Taking a stab at some basic descriptions of some ...
Landfall

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Landfall; Cocinero; Broken Branch; Blues For Marisol; Drifter; Twilight; Rider; Super 8; Granger;
Sky City; Horse (Ballad of Jawn Wayne); Where I Live.
Mike Kennedy: Landfall

The release of guitarist Mike Kennedy's Landfall is most appropriately-timed for those about to enter the sweet seasons of spring and summer. It is the ideal soundtrack for lolling in the sun. With a quartet moving right in time with him, Kennedy utilizes electric and acoustic guitars, along with judiciously placed pedal steel, to ...
Dan Monaghan: The Man Behind The Swing

Dan Monaghan is a working drummer who makes an indispensable contribution to the music by being the one who provides the swing and support that allows the other musicians to achieve their diverse objectives. He performs so often in the Philadelphia area that if you go to a jazz show, there's a fair chance he'll be ...
Insulation

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Bell; Verb; Meridian; Reminder; My Account; Compression; Yours Alone;
Elastic; Insulation.
Mike Kennedy: Insulation

This unpretentious but edifying album consists of a series of guitar originals which flow into one another to form a unified whole. The music is relaxing, with a light swing that calls to mind guitarists like Wes Montgomery and Jim Hall, and might be called, to coin a phrase, soft bop." Mike Kennedy, guitarist and leader, ...