Innerviews Music Without Borders Anil Prasad

Oct 10,2010
Anil Prasad established innerviews.org in 1994, and quickly gained a reputation among readers and artists for incisive and substantive journalism. Ten of the 24 interviewees here are guitarists—Martin Carthy, Michael Hedges, John More...

Garaj Mahal amp Fareed Haque Discovery

May 14,2010
Garaj Mahal & Fareed Haque DiscoveryFareed Haque (Sting, Joe Zawinul) was one of the earliest standard bearers for the Moog Guitar, and on this disc he puts the instrument through its many paces in the company of bassist More...

Exclusive! Book Excerpt From Follow Your Heart: John McLaughlin Song By Song: A Listeners Guide

Mar 4,2011
Johnny McLaughlin – Electric GuitaristMusicians:  John McLaughlin (guitar) and various guest starsRecorded: January – February 1978.  New York City, New York and North Hollywood, CA.Columbia (CK 46110)Johnny McLaughlin – Electric More...

Timucin Sahin Quartet BAFA

Jun 1,2010
Wielding his signature Erkan Sizarlar 6- and fretless 7-string doubleneck, Turkish guitarist Timucin Sahin’s truly avant-garde jazz concept is brilliantly realized by New York young lions saxophonist John O’ Gallagher, More...

Johnny A One November Night

Jun 1,2010
This CD/DVD set features Johnny A at the top of his game, playing cool instrumental songs with killer tones and great feel in a small club setting. For a live and non-edited production, it’s quite impressive. Agalophone. More...

Jake Hertzog Patterns

Jun 1,2010
Echoes of Metheny, Stern, and Breau (among others) surface in Hertzog’s playing, but his dazzlingly adventurous approach puts him in a jazz league all his own. What a gifted guitarist, and at 22, he’s just More...

Makajodama Makajodama

Jun 1,2010
Swedish guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, and pedal-steel player Mathias Danielsson is flanked by violin, cello, drums, and guest brass, reed, and woodwind players on this magnificent disc of largely improvised More...

Raul Midon Synthesis

Jun 1,2010
Midon’s funky, groovy guitar work is all over this release, with the smoothest octaves this side of Benson, flawless technique, and impeccable note selection. When you factor in his compositional skills, unearthly More...

The Julien Kasper Band Trance Groove

Jun 1,2010
Exquisite tones, masterful execution, and innate soulfulness drive this jazzy, funky, bluesy, Sco-and-Beck-meet- Hendrix-for-drinks-at-the-Harvard-Psychedelic-Club instrumental joyride. Toulcat. More...

Frank Zappa The Freak-Out List

Jul 1,2010
Zappa included a list of 179 influences on his 1966 debut—from Schoenberg and Varèse to doo-woppers and Johnny “Guitar” Watson to Eric Dolphy and Miles—many of which are here linked to his aesthetic via various Zappa More...

Razl, Microscopic

Jan 24,2012
On this follow up to 2008’s excellent Rotonova, Spanish guitarist Raúl Huelves (a.k.a. Razl) leads a power trio featuring bassist extraordinaire Bryan Beller and deep-pocket drummer Pepe Acebal—with cameos from guitarist Will More...

Rez Abbasi’s Invocation, Suno Suno

Jan 24,2012
On his eighth release, the Pakistani-American jazz composer and guitarist further consolidates his cross-continental amalgam of musical styles, this time more fully assimilating the Sufi devotional music known as qawwali—though More...

Jake Hertzog, Evolution

Jan 18,2012
Jake Hertzog is one of the finest young jazz guitarists on the scene, and his two previous albums were chockablock with intriguing and even startling passages that signaled a fresh approach to the idiom. On his latest release, More...

Matthew Charles Heulitt Room to Run

Feb 1,2011
Heulitt’s creative muse runs free on this inspired-sounding album, which ventures out of the jazz realm to utilize everything from rock grooves to pure noise as platforms for improvisation. Just when you hear his fluid chops More...

Roy Gaines and his Orchestra Tuxedo Blues

Feb 1,2011
Roy Gaines shows his talents as a vocalist and a guitarist, who has a cool R&B guitar style that’s perfectly suited for this collection of bluesy, swinging tunes. Inspired by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Jimmy Rushing, More...

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