Results for "Sean McGowan"

Sean McGowan

Strings & Swing: Epic Central Coast Jazz Guitar Festival

by Tommy Benson
March 13, 2025

The second annual Central Coast Jazz Guitar Festival took place in California's Santa Ynez Valley, presented by Rich Severson and his family. Severson, his son Wes and his wife Gayle, along with Henriksen Amplifiers, D'Angelico Guitars, Heritage Guitars and Eastman Guitars, sponsored and organized the ultimate gathering for guitarists. This three-day event featured performances and educational ...

Orchestral Quintet

By Paul Mullikin

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020

Sphere

By Sean McGowan

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011
Track listing: Blue Monk; Rhythm-A-Ning; Bye-Ya; Ruby, My Dear; We See; 'Round Midnight; Trinkle Tinkle; North of the Sunset; Light Blue; Crepuscle With Nellie.

Sean McGowan: Sphere

by Florence Wetzel
December 14, 2011

For many jazz lovers, pianist Thelonious Monk's solo recordings of his own compositions are an exquisite pleasure. The simplicity of a single instrument reveals the compositions' elegant architecture, allowing their angular beauty to become refreshingly clear. The challenge and joy of recording Monk's music solo continues to entice musicians, thus creating afresh some of the twentieth ...

Sean McGowan: Sphere

by David Rickert
November 23, 2011

Those who seek to create a tribute album of Thelonious Monk music face one big obstacle: how do you capture Monk's idiosyncratic style without sounding like a pale imitation? You could just record cover versions of his songs and leave it at that, but the end result wouldn't really capture the pianist's oddball genius, so what ...

Indigo

By Sean McGowan

Label: Maple Sugar Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Stolen Moments; I'm Old Fashioned; My Romance; Indigo; Confirmation; Polkadots & Moonbeams; Tere WIll Never Be Another You; Theo Brown; Prelude To A Kiss; Where Or When.

Sean McGowan: Indigo

by Martin Gladu
September 3, 2008

"When the smith gets wildly excited, 'tis best to agree with him," warns the Gaelic proverb. Needless to say when a person's full name translates into “Oldest Son of the Smith" the weight of such patronymic suddenly takes a whole new importance. Fortunately, guitarist Sean McGowan need not resort to swinging heavy apparatus to elicit the ...