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By Bill Connors

Label: Tone Center
Released: 2005
Track listing: On the Edge; Mr. Cool; McMinor; Mind Over Matter; Minor Matters; Try Tone Today; Terrabill Blues; Nobody Yet To; It Be FM; Brasilia

Visions Of An Inner Mounting Apocalypse: A Fusion Guitar Tribute

Label: Tone Center
Released: 2005

Steve Smith/Dave Liebman/Aydin Esen/Anthony Jackson: Flashpoint

by John Kelman
August 26, 2005

You have to admire saxophonist Dave Liebman. With over fifty albums as a leader, he has built an impressive and varied body of work that has touched upon a wealth of styles. This year alone he's released an album with pianist Phil Markowitz, straddling the line between complex composition and more liberated free play (Manhattan Dialogues); ...

Jeff Richman & Friends: Fusion for Miles, A Guitar Tribute: A Bitchin' Brew

by John Kelman
August 19, 2005

Trumpeter Miles Davis shifted gears so many times during his forty-year career that doing a proper tribute which covers the entire time frame represents a distinct challenge. Perhaps that's why many artists have focused on specific periods in their Miles tributes. Producer Gary Guthrie put a new spin on Kind of Blue with A New Kind ...

Bill Connors: Return

by Jim Santella
August 14, 2005

Combining light Latin smooth jazz with searing contemporary thrills, Bill Connors proves that he's been hard at work practicing, writing music, and studying since his last two albums, Double Up and Assembler, were recorded in the late 1980s. No sense in letting such great guitar chops get stale. With Return, he's able to turn it loose ...

Jeff Richman & Friends: Visions of an Inner Mounting Apocalypse: A Fusion Guitar Tribute

by John Kelman
August 4, 2005

Tribute albums are a risky undertaking. You need to be respectful without being too imitative. You need to demonstrate the impact of the artist(s) while at the same time showing how things have moved forward. In a nutshell, you need to be relevant and reverent without coming off as simply a poor carbon copy. Paying respect ...

Visions of an Inner Mounting Apocalypse: A Fusion Guitar Tribute

by Walter Kolosky
July 12, 2005

Various Artists Visions of an Inner Mounting Apocalypse: A Fusion Guitar Tribute Tone Center 2005 Tone Center, Mike Varney's fusion-only label, is not only helping to keep the genre in good shape--it's pumping it full of steroids. Last year the label released A Guitar Supreme: Giant Steps in ...

Scott Henderson: Live

by Jim Santella
April 2, 2005

Scott Henderson's double CD carries a lot of sizzle and a powerful sound, considering the band is just three people. His fiery electric guitar and the drummer's consistent back beat allow them to romp with passions unleashed. Henderson has a lot to say, and it all came out during these live sessions at a familiar Los ...

Bill Connors: Return

by Woodrow Wilkins
March 10, 2005

At first the guitar licks might bring Pat Metheny to mind. Then the overall sound may give the impression of a Chick Corea ensemble. Both impressions would be wrong--but not entirely. It's Bill Connors, a veteran who has recorded or performed with many modern jazz legends, including Jack DeJohnette, Steve Khan, and Lee Konitz. He's even ...

Scott Henderson: Live!

by John Kelman
February 9, 2005

While guitarist Scott Henderson has been mining post-Weather Report fusion territory for years with Tribal Tech, he has also been exploring a more blues-based direction with recordings including Dog Party, Tore Down House and, most notably, '02's stripped-down Well to the Bone, one of the most potent examples of the power trio to be released in ...