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Royce Campbell: Get Happy

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by Jim Santella
January 5, 2008

Guitarist Royce Campbell collected songs with happy themes for this trio recording. Featuring violinist Joe Kennedy (1923-2004), the session swings in the mood intended, with an acoustic timbre and an open resonance to match. String jazz gets too little attention; yet, the violin has been with jazz since its inception. Guitar and double-bass remain integral elements ...

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Get Happy

By Royce Campbell

Label: Fox Haven
Released: 2007
Track listing: I Want to Be Happy; Pick Yourself Up; Joyous Blues; I

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Elegy to a Friend

By Royce Campbell

Label: Moon Cycle
Released: 2007
Track listing: Dancing Waterfall; Apollo; No Blues is Good Blues; Trane Track; Day into Night; Manhattan Mambo; Gratis; Elegy to a Friend.

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Royce Campbell: Elegy to a Friend

Read "Elegy to a Friend" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
June 15, 2007

A versatile guitarist, Royce Campbell is equally at home with straight-ahead jazz and pure blues. When he got this group of Indianapolis jazz artists together in September 1990, it was to explore a different region altogether: jazz's modern mainstream. This allowed the quartet to explore, through original compositions, the more creative aspects of their music. Each ...

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Gypsy Soul

By Royce Campbell

Label: Moon Cycle
Released: 2006
Track listing: On the Move; I

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Elegy To A Friend

By Royce Campbell

Label: Timeless Records
Released: 2006

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Royce Campbell: Gypsy Soul

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by Jim Santella
April 5, 2006

In a program of originals that recalls the spirit of Django Reinhardt, the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, and other masters of early acoustic swing, guitarist Royce Campbell turns to the heartfelt spirit that feeds our soul. Born in Indiana, Campbell issued his first recording in 1983. As Henry Mancini's guitarist, he ...

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A Jazz Guitar Christmas

By Royce Campbell

Label: Moon Cycle
Released: 2005
Track listing: Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow; White Christmas; Live Every Day Like Christmas; O Christmas Tree; I'll Be Home for Christmas; Winter Wonderland; Santa Claus is Coming to Town; Toyland; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; We Three Kings; The Christmas Song.

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Plays For Lovers

By Royce Campbell

Label: Moon Cycle
Released: 2005
Track listing: Estate; Body And Soul; Sounds Of Love; Waltz For Debby; A Time For Love; I Concentrate On You; I Feel Like We Have Met Before; But Beautiful.

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Royce Campbell Plays for Lovers

By Royce Campbell

Label: Moon Cycle
Released: 2005
Track listing: Estate; Body and Soul; Sounds of Love; Waltz for Debby; A Time for Love; I Concentrate on You; I Feel Like We Have Met Before; This is All I Ask; But Beautiful.