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Nguyen Le: Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix

Read "Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix" reviewed by Todd S. Jenkins

by Todd S. Jenkins
October 23, 2003

Hallelujah, somebody got it right! One of the banes of the fusion desk is the number of Hendrix knock-offs that come across it. Whether it be an outright tribute or just someone copping a half-dozen licks, nary a guitarist seems to be able to go long without conjuring up Jimi's long-dead ghost. So the arrival of ...

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Purple - Celebrating Jimi Hendrix

By Nguyen Le

Label: ACT (4)
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be); Manic Depression; Are You Experienced; Purple Haze; Burning Of The Midnight Lamp; If 6 Was 9; Voodoo Child (Slight Return); South Saturn Delta; Up From The Skies; Third Stone From The Sun;

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Tales from Viet-nam

By Nguyen Le

Label: World Records
Released: 2002

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Nguy: Tales from Viet-nam

by Scott Andrews
August 17, 2002

Jazz guitarist and composer Nguyen Le has played with the French National Jazz Orchestra, the WDR Big Band with composer/conductor Vince Mendoza, and with several trios he assembled himself. In Tales from Viet-nam, he set out to blend jazz fusion with traditional Vietnamese music and musicians. This project offered a cultural examination of Le's family roots, ...

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Meet Terri Lyne Carrington

by Craig Jolley
March 1, 2002

Drummer/composer Terri Lyne Carrington found her voice early. Unlike other child prodigies, she was not transfixed by her early success and has continued to grow musically. Besides her brilliance as a drummer she is now established as a bandleader and producer. She records and tours with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and many others. New ...

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Three Trios

By Nguyen Le

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1 Three trios - SILK, 2 Three trios - SILVER, 3 Three trios - SAND, 4 DANCE OF THE COMET, 5 FOOW, 6 KINDERHUND, 7 WOOF, 8 IDOMA, 9 LA PARFUM, 10 BLUE MONKEY, 11 STRAIGHT NO CHASER

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Nguyên Lê: Three Trios

Read "Three Trios" reviewed by John W. Patterson

by John W. Patterson
December 1, 2001

Nguyên Lê is amazing. His guitar work is unique, inspiring, technically challenging, fired with soul, jazzy, rocking, and drips of fusion yet goes even further. You will hear world music (far-Eastern/Southeast Asian) scales and note treatments in attack, vibrato, and bends. Lê is of Vietnamese heritage but knows full well the world of jazz and rock.

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Tales From Viêt-Nam

By Nguyen Le

Label: ACT (4)
Released: 1996
Track listing: The Wind Blew It Away (Qua Câu Gio Bay); The Black Horse (Ly Ngua O); Don't You Go Away My Friend (Nguoi Oi Nguoi O Dung Vê); Trông Com (The Rice Drum); Hen Ho (Promise Of A Date); The Banyan Tree Song (1. Ly Cai Da/2. The Pillow (Cai Gôi)/3. The Hill (Trèo Lên Quan Dôc)); Spring Of Life (Hoai Xuân); Ting Ning; Mangustao Pt. 1; Mangustao Pt. 2;