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Dream Flight

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Dream Flight; Rotha & Priska; Jive Five; Song for Jaco; Twelve; Plan 9; Kokopanitsa; Romanichel; Montreal; Hanging Out on the Roofs; A Demain.

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E_L_B (Peter Erskine_Nguyen Le_Michel Benita): Dream Flight

Read "Dream Flight" reviewed by John Kelman


Active leaders all--and busy sidemen as well--drummer Peter Erskine, guitarist Nguyên Lê and bassist Michel Benita worked together in other contexts, prior to forming the collective trio E_L_B and releasing their self-titled 2000 ACT debut. Busy schedules prevented a follow-up for seven years; but following a successful tour where the trio became a quartet with the ...

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Huong Thanh & Nguyen Le: Fragile Beauty

Read "Fragile Beauty" reviewed 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 ...

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Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: 1983

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Nguyen Le: Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix

Read "Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix" reviewed 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 ...

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Nguyen Le: Miracles & Zanzibar

Read "Nguyen Le: Miracles & Zanzibar" reviewed 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 ...

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Homescape

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Stanieri; Byzance; Muqqam; Mali Iwa; Zafaran; Domus De Janas; Kithara; Chelsea Bridge; Safina; Des Pres; Thang Long; Neon; Mangustao; Lacrima Christi; Beyti.

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Nguyen Le Duos: Homescape

Read "Homescape" reviewed 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 ...

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Nguyên Lê: Homescape

Read "Homescape" reviewed 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, ...

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Nguyen Le Duos: Homescape

Read "Homescape" reviewed 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 ...


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