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Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather: No Substitutions - Live in Osaka
by Scott Andrews
Longtime L.A. studio guitarists and friends Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather lead a quintet rounded out with keyboards, bass, and drums on five instrumental tracks recorded live in Osaka, Japan. No Substitutions opens with the Jeff Beck tune “The Pump," featuring repeated guitar solos over a long, static bass groove of steady eighth notes. After a ...
Greg Howard Band: Lift
by Scott Andrews
Chapman Stick player Greg Howard has recorded solo albums and gigged his often Spanish influenced electric jazz in Charlottesville, Virginia for over fifteen years. The Chapman Stick, a 10 or 12 stringed electric instrument invented by Emmett Chapman in the 1970s, contains low and high pitched strings for playing bass lines and melodies simultaneously. The strings ...
Stuart Hamm: Outbound
by Scott Andrews
Bassist Stu Hamm's credits include several stints supporting flashy guitarists Steve Vai and Joe Satriani with his equally flashy tapping bass chops back in the late 80s. More recently, Hamm appeared in a project band trio with Frank Gambale and Steve Smith on two instrumental, chop-laden fusion records from the Tone Center label, where the trio ...
Matalex: Live 96
by Scott Andrews
Matalex, a German quartet that has opened for Billy Cobham in Europe, describes themselves as “Germany's only Jazz-Grunge act." Culled from the tour for their second studio record Jazz Grunge (1995), the first half of Live 96 was recorded by chance in Rome. The second half of Live 96 comes from an earlier show on the ...
Ben Allison and Medicine Wheel: Riding the Nuclear Tiger
by Scott Andrews
Bassist Ben Allison founded the Jazz Composers Collective in New York City in 1992, and has been a centerpiece of that non-profit organization and the local jazz scene ever since. Allison leads his septet Medicine Wheel through nine shifty, modern jazz tunes on their third record Riding the Nuclear Tiger.The non-traditional instrumentation of Medicine ...
Group Therapy: Digitalive
by Scott Andrews
The Japanese sextet Group Therapy plays a relaxed style of fusion laced with an R&B feel, augmented by a horn duo with the unusual instrumentation of soprano sax and trombone. “Digitalive," the group's second self-released CD, was recorded live in April 2000 and contains three tracks, each clocking in at over 10 minutes. Group Therapy's sound ...
Eric Johnson / Alien Love Child: Live and beyond
by Scott Andrews
On Live and beyond, Eric Johnson serves up a helping of live Texas blues rock with his band Alien Love Child, a trio featuring Chris Maresh on bass and bill Maddox on drums, with Johnson and Maresh sharing occasional vocal duties with guest vocalist Malford Milligan. Johnson's infamous meticulousness over guitar equipment and his recordings has ...
Code 3: Code 3
by Scott Andrews
Code 3, a fusion trio from Los Angles, includes local veterans Jeff Miley on guitar, Doug Shreeve on bass, and Eric Wells on drums. Their self-titled debut CD also features guest Jeff Babko on keyboards. Code 3 showcases a smooth, relaxed style of fusion in mid-tempo songs with developed heads and solo sections, mostly written by ...
Anomaly: Anomaly
by Scott Andrews
The Dutch quartet Anomaly plays crunchy, instrumental progressive metal with melodic development and intricate rhythms, a completely different band and style from the Florida, light prog rock Anomaly of Jim Studnicki and Jim Dorian that featured the rhythm section of Cynic. Anomaly adroitly tackles the difficult task of writing engaging instrumental metal by utilizing the melodic ...
Francisco Hernandez: Whispers from the Wind
by Scott Andrews
Whispers from the Wind revels in the classic prog rock style of Francisco Hernandez, a prog rock veteran from his work with the longstanding Mexican band CAST. Whispers from the Wind is guitar and keyboard driven prog rock with traditional sounding synth textures, layered vocals, flute, and passages of alternating dynamics. The songwriting shows classic prog ...
