Reviews
John Stein – Jazz Standards for Solo Guitar
Book Review: Ten transcriptions of elegant, sophisticated songs take guitarists into a world where composition mingles with creativity.
Album Review: Elliott Randall explores new directions, delivering a dozen evocative, cliché-free instrumentals played with heart, soul, and skill.
Album Review: Pat Metheny joins tenor saxophonist Chris Potter for a series of magnificent improvised narratives.
Album Review: The recording of the 2007 show at London’s O2 arena delivers an unvarnished portrait of patriarchs revisiting the myth of their glory days.
Album Review: Shred, shred, and more shred! The chief dignitary of neoclassical guitar continues his self-assertion.
Album Review: Gypsy swing guitarist Joscho Stephan teams up with klezmer clarinettist Helmut Eisel for a 13-track adventure.
Album Review: The Ten Years After guitarist’s new release makes stops at all of the important touchstones of his career.
Album Review: Brazil’s most charismatic rock guitar hero bridges the traditions of his homeland and North American styles.
Album Review: The Adagio frontman’s solo debut defies the stereotype of neoclassical guitar as the hotbed of fretboard solipsism.
The disciplined fury of John 5’s fretboard fireworks scorches even hotter on this new release when set against the quieter acoustic cuts. Contrasting contemplation against recklessness, he deliberately spotlights the widening gap between his trademark electric guitar methods and the …
Jimmy Page comes through as both elitist and cautious by not making this collection of his early-’70s avant-garde experiments available in any other format but vinyl LP. It feels that by cutting off a huge segment (if not the majority) …
An off-the wall, heady mixture of jazz fusion, metal, hard rock, and prog continues to be the signature sound of this eccentric French trio led by veteran guitar guru Christophe Godin. But despite the eclecticism of Mörglbl’s universe, the proceedings …
An expert in covering vast cultural ground, here jazz guitar legend Bill Frisell presents his most striking panoramic vision of Americana. In tandem with percussionist Matt Chamberlain, he follows the same quirky method devised for the first Floratone record five …
An award-winning documentary about Jason Becker is premiering all over the world and Carvin’s custom shop has just released his signature guitar. But to his fans the new album still becomes the biggest event of the year. One of the …
After 32 albums as a solo artist, band leader, and collaborator with such luminaries as John Mayall, John Lee Hooker, and Joe Tex, blues torchbearer Walter Trout takes his touring band into the studio and comes out with some of …
