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Hedvig Mollestad Trio: All of Them Witches
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 3 days ago
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May 18, 2013 It may well be sexist to suggest that there are few female heavy rock guitarists. Still, as society moves towards greater equity among the genders, there are thankfully a lot more talented and intrepid women transcending conventional
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Mimi Fox
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | 13 days ago
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On her third solo album out of nine releases, Fox employs the traditional method of fretting with her left and picking with her right as she moves effortlessly between bass, melody, and chord passages in surprising new ways that expand the definition
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Cynthia Sayer: Joyride
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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April 11, 2013 Banjo!one's mental and aural images might include straw-hatted gents picking away at an attraction at Disney World, Stubby Kaye and Nat King Cole strolling in Cat Ballou, (Columbia Pictures, 1965) "The Beverly Hillbillies Theme," or
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The $100 Guitar Project Releases a CD
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 1 month ago
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Nick Didkovsky , a guitarist and composer, and Charles O'Meara, the guitarist in the eclectic rock trio Forever Einstein , were in the habit of scanning eBay for used instruments, and e-mailing each other links to the ones they considered interesting.
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John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension: Now Here This
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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February 28, 2013 Without a doubt, guitarist John McLaughlin is one of the most adventurous, unique and engaging musicians ever to pick up an electric guitar. The acclaim that has come his way during his long and illustrious history is almost
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James O'Sullivan -- Workshop improvisers in action: James Oa(TM)Sullivan, Tom Soloveitzik, Jerry Wigens
Athens :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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February 1, 2013 Every Friday evening since November 1999, a variable number of musiciansfrom six to twenty-sixhas gathered together in south London for over two hours to improvise together in various combinations from duos upward. Originally
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Allan Holdsworth: None Too Soon
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 months ago
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December 19, 2012 For his ninth album, guitar wizard Allan Holdsworth takes on jazz classics by saxophonists John Coltrane and Joe Henderson , pianist Bill Evans and more, plus pop classics just as famous for their jazz interpretations, in a set put
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Joan Torres's All Is Fused: Before
San Juan :: Puerto Rico | 5 months ago
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December 19, 2012 Bassist Joan Torres calls his group All Is Fused. Before , the band's debut recording, features electric bass, electric guitar and (mostly) electric keyboards...Torres knows his fusion history, and appropriates from it with a sure
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No Reduce: Jaywalkin'
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 months ago
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December 8, 2012 Nascent Swiss saxophonist Christoph Irniger often devises his compositional structures with embryonic tone poems and does not show a proclivity to rush through the body of his largely probing works. His ensemble takes its time within
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Mickey Baker: Acclaimed guitarist
Louisville :: KY :: USA | 6 months ago
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The passing of the last of modern architecture's great mid-20th century heroes closes the book on an extraordinary architectural period whose various radical social and political intents have evaporated from the mindsets of the 21st century's
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