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Huong Thanh & Nguyen Le: Fragile Beauty
by John Kelman
Fragile Beauty isn't the first time that singer Huong Thanh and guitarist Nguyên Lê--both Vietnamese-born, Paris-based--have worked together, but it is the first time they've shared the bill. Thanh has released three other ACT albums on which Lê produced, arranged and performed, and she's appeared on two of Lê's own discs--Maghreb & Friends (ACT, 1998) and ...
Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix
By Nguyen Le
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: 1983
Nguyen Le: Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix
by John Kelman
Originally released in 2002 but only seeing release in the United States five years later, Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix--alongside welcome 2007 reissues of Miracles (Universal, 1990) and Zanzibar (Universal, 1992) and the more recently recorded Homescape (ACT, 2006)--provides an increasingly balanced picture of guitarist Nguyên Lê. He may be considered by most to be a fusion ...
Nguyen Le: Miracles & Zanzibar
by John Kelman
It's all too rare that an artist appears, seemingly out of nowhere, fully matured and with a distinctively personal musical conception. While guitarist Nguyên Lê--Parisian born of Vietnamese parents--might argue that his true voice didn't emerge until he released the seminal Tales From Vietnam (ACT, 1996), the recent remastered reissue of his first two albums as ...
Nguyen Le Duos: Homescape
by John Kelman
There's no substitute for a convincing musical concept and language, but if an artist doesn't pay equal attention to tone, then that musical message can become easily diluted. The two are, in fact, inextricably linked--in particular with guitarists, who are often as well-known for the texture of their sound as the notes they play. Guitarist Nguyên ...
Nguyên Lê: Homescape
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista franco-vietnamita Nguyên Lê affronta con i due amici Paolo Fresu e Dhafer Youssef una nuova sfida per la quale si da regole piuttosto interessanti che caratterizzano a livello strutturale e produttivo questo Homescape, un titolo decisamente programmatico. L’idea è per l’appunto quella di utilizzare come ‘locus’ creativo lo studio di registrazione domestico del musicista, ...
Nguyen Le Duos: Homescape
by Chris May
Where does jazz stop and world music start? The boundaries are getting more blurred by the minute. We're all postmodernists now, and many musicians under fifty reflect a range of influences beyond those traditionally associated with their own core style. Some, like French-Vietnamese guitarist Nguyen Le, are so polyglot as to be practically beyond category. Le ...
Walking on the Tiger's Tail
By Nguyen Le
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Wingless Flight; Yielding Water; Totsu!; Snow on a Flower; Jorai; Butterfly Dream; Walking on the Tiger's Tail; Bee; Evening Glory; Zamora; Eventail
Nguyen Le Quartet: Walking on the Tiger's Tail
by John Kelman
For his ninth record, French-Vietnamese guitarist Nguyên Lê renews musical relationships with two artists who appeared on his first two releases--woodwind multi-instrumentalist Paul McCandless from Lê's '96 debut, Zanzibar, and pianist Art Lande, who played on the '97 record Miracles. That Lande and McCandless also share a musical friendship that dates back over thirty years makes ...
