All Entries in the "Reviews" Category
Graham Dechter: Right On Time – “Jazz Guitar Life” CD Review
The best part of my “job” is getting the opportunity to check out wonderful players who I would normally never get to hear if I had to rely on mainstream media. LA based Jazz Guitarist Graham Dechter is just such an artist. His debut CD as a leader, Right On Time, is chock full of [...]
Mark Elf: The Mark Elf Guitar Conservatory – Jazz Guitar Life Review
Mark Elf – The Mark Elf Guitar Conservatory
Used to be if you wanted to take lessons from an established and celebrated Jazz musician you had to travel great distances and dish out a wad of cash for an hour or so of that artist’s time. Thankfully, those days are behind us as the capability [...]
Mike Stern: “Who Let The Cats Out?” – Jazz Guitar Life CD Review
Mike Stern: “Who Let The Cats Out?”
With the just released CD (August 15, 2006) “Who Let the Cats Out?” on Heads Up International, Mike Stern has once again positioned himself at the top of the contemporary Jazz recording community.
Who Let The Cats Out?” is an electrifying and brilliant CD chock-full of all [...]
Howard Morgen’s “Through Chord-Melody & Beyond”: A Book for Building Insight – Jazz Guitar Life Review
Howard Morgen’s “Through Chord-Melody & Beyond”: A Book for Building Insight – By John Huntley
Howard Morgen has built a prolific career as a guitar teacher, writer and clinician based upon a simple paradigm in music – knowledge equals creative possibilities. Ignoring the hot licks-oriented trivia, Howard’s work focuses on teaching the whole fretboard in a [...]
Dave Allen: “Real And Imagined” – Jazz Guitar Life CD Review
Dave Allen: “Real And Imagined”
Real And Imagined, the second CD for New York based Jazz Guitarist Dave Allen, is a tour de force of composition and technical mastery that appears to know no bounds. As a Guitarist, composer and improviser, Allen follows, and more importantly, trusts his muse to seek out areas that feed [...]
MB 3: Jazz Hits Volume 1 – Jazz Guitar Life CD Review
MB 3 : Jazz Hits Volume 1
Jimmy Bruno. Vic Juris. Corey Christiansen. Three significant and exceedingly talented names on the contemporary Jazz Guitar scene. As individual artists they each have highly respected solo careers that cumulatively span decades of top notch artistry and creative output. However, on this, their first recording as a unit, [...]
Steve Herberman Trio: Ideals – Jazz Guitar Life CD Review
Steve Herberman Trio: Ideals
Steve Herberman may not be one of those names that instantly pops into your head when you think about the movers and shakers of Jazz Guitar, but it should be, and with any luck, soon will be. His most recent CD, Ideals features Herberman’s most exciting playing to date as he explores [...]
The Van Sant/Palmer Jazz Duo: “Play the Music Of Horace Silver” – Jazz Guitar Life CD Review
The Van Sant/Palmer Jazz Duo: “Play the Music Of Horace Silver”
Jazz Guitarist Kevin Van Sant and Bassist Ben Palmer, are two local North Carolina Jazz artists who not only share a love for Jazz and the improvised line, but apparently a love for the music of pianist/composer Horace Silver. This much is evident on [...]
The Laverne Christie Trio: East of the Sun, West of the Moon – Jazz Guitar Life CD Review
The Laverne Christie Trio: East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Chances are, if you have ever checked out the Las Vegas Jazz scene, you would have heard about a skillful Jazz Guitarist by the name of Laverne Christie. If not, then you are in luck because Christie has released a CD of choice [...]
Mike Rud: Live From Lotus Land – Jazz Guitar Life CD Review
Mike Rud: Live From Lotus Land
Chances are, Mike Rud is a name you haven’t heard before. Unless of course you have read his interview on this site or happen to have lived in Vancouver, Edmonton, Ottawa or Montreal within the last ten years or so. Truth is, Mike Rud is an extremely talented Jazz [...]
