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Rory Stuart

Rory Stuart is an innovative jazz guitarist and composer, with a mature modern style. He's been critically acclaimed as one of the foremost young musicians of the decade. Stuart has a healthy respect for the jazz tradition. Largely self-taught, he's benefited from an ongoing exchange of musical ideas with his long-time friend Tuck Andress, and studied briefly but intensively with excellent "guitarist's guitarist" Dave Creamer. He cites John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and Wayne Shorter as influences; yet his style is uniquely his own. Described in JAZZ TIMES as "perhaps THE most innovative straight-ahead jazz guitarist to emerge in years," his two previous recordings as leader of a quartet have both received 4 star reviews in DOWNBEAT and been voted in the 10 best of the year in CODA

So Rise Up

By Rory Stuart

Label: Smart Cat Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Experiment #2; Exhilirate; Synechdoche In Schenectady; Falling Angel; Unexpected Path; Lembrancas; Pensive; The Same Old Same Old; So Rise Up.

The Rory Stuart Quartet: So Rise Up

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 21, 2008

Non più giovanissimo - Nightwork (Cadence), la sua prima incisione da leader risale al 1982 - il chitarrista newyorchese Rory Stuart presenta in So Rise Up una manciata di nuove composizioni e soprattutto l’affiatato quartetto con il quale si esibisce da qualche anno. Le composizioni sono solide, formalmente ineccepibili, a tratti armonicamente sofisticate, ma non proprio ...

Rory Stuart Quartet: So Rise Up

by Mark F. Turner
February 22, 2008

So Rise Up showcases New York guitarist, Rory Stuart, leading his quartet through original compositions that are simultaneously engrossing and technically sophisticated. Stuart is no novice, with a number of recordings as a leader--his first was Nightwork (Cadence, 1982)--and plenty of previous exposure, with artists from the renowned saxophonist Charlie Rouse and B3 organ guru Dr. ...

The Rain in Spain

By Sophie Dunér

Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. The Rain in Spain (Sophie Dunér) - 4:55; 02. The Multiple Useful (Sophie Dunér) - 3:34; 03. At Last (H. Warren/G. Mack) - 3:31; 04. Two Time Losers (Sophie Dunér) - 4:49; 05. Up Again (Sophie Dunér) - 5:16; 06. Marionettes (Sophie Dunér) - 4:26; 07. Caravan (I. Mills/J. Tizol) - 5:30; 08. Jack the Ripper (Sophie Dunér) - 5:31; 09. Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn) - 8:26; 10. The Fight (Sophie Dunér) - 3:01; 11. Mack the Knife (K. Weil/M. Blitzstein/B. Brecht) - 3:50; 12. Lonely Woman (H. Silver/L. Feather) - 5:31; 13. A Midsummernights Dream (Sophie Dunér) - 4:39; 14. Paris Blues (D. Ellington) - 6:40.