Guitarist Bill Frisell and his trio were framed in red curtains and white spotlights on stage at the Barns, the winter haven for artists who perform at the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia.
This is the 3rd opportunity that I have had to review Stryker and Slagle. I always look forward to hearing them and am never disappointed. This is a band that has much to offer.
Ralf Krebs is based in Berlin, Germany. He began his musical career by studying Latin percussion and drumming.
This is my first exposure to guitarist Alex Machacek. He was born in 1972 and raised in Vienna, Austria.
Solidbodies: The 50 Year Guitar War is an entertaining and enlightening new DVD by Lightning Lab Productions that offers a captivating look into the history of the two most significant solidbody guitars in history: the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul. For over fifty years, Fender and Gibson guitars have dominated the electric guitar market. Despite the hundreds of other guitar builders trying to better the mousetrap, the Stratocaster and Les Paul have continued to dominate the global marketplace.
Frank DiBussolo is an experienced player and educator. His guitar work has been featured with bands the likes of Buddy Rich, Art Blakey and Dizzy Gillespie.
Drummer Lenny White has been one of the top jazz/rock drummers for many years. He was a member of Return To Forever, in the 1970’s.
The mountain music of Virginia was featured in the ensemble show, Music from the Crooked Road that recently toured the U.S.
The jazz fusion masters of Garaj Mahal are at it again with a superb new CD, No More Mr. Nice Guy, that swooped in almost under the radar a mere 18 months after the release of their 2008 CD wOOt.
In May 2009 I had the privilege of attending and photographing Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay Blues for the first time and I was knocked out!
