If You Would Dance by The Wayne Brasel Quartet Review
One huge benefit of professionally reviewing jazz guitarists is discovering new voices. There are many fine players today who go largely undiscovered.
One huge benefit of professionally reviewing jazz guitarists is discovering new voices. There are many fine players today who go largely undiscovered.
Born the grandson of immigrants in 1915, Lester William Polfuss exhibited an inborn Germanic talent for analytical thinking at a precociously early age.
Guitar International was recently invited to take a tour of luthier Dan Koentopp’s Chicago workshop. We spent the afternoon checking out Dan’s tools, several guitars he had in the works and hearing about his journey as an up and coming custom-guitar builder.
Guitar International is honored to be recognized by Guitar Friendly as the recipient of it’s 3rd place award in the site’s “Guitar News and Information Award” category,as part of Guitar Friendly’s 2010 Guitar Blog Awards announced on August 3, 2010.
Executive Producers Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts’ new DVD, Stones in Exile, is a behind the scense look at the making of the Rolling Stones’ ’72 double-album, Exile on Main Street.
It’s 10:30 PM, I’m sitting at a wooden picnic table, and I feel great! The Monterey fairgrounds are still hopping at the 25th Monterey Bay Blues Festival, held June 25 – 27, 2010, with crowds of people standing in groups or walking around the grounds. The picnic table is in the middle of two different stages, so I can hear a blend of music from the acts still going strong.
“Heavy Mellow” is an intensely interesting and musically captivating album by the San Francisco based group Flametal.
Into the Night is an intense, metal thrill-ride by Florida based melodic metal band Oblivious Signal.
Sending My Love is a laid-back, smooth-jazz album by guitarist Norman Brown. Featuring nine original tracks, with a cover of the Kenny Loggins song “Celebrate Me Home,”
Guitar International was recently invited to take a tour of luthier Dan Koentopp’s Chicago workshop. We spent the afternoon checking out Dan’s tools, several guitars he had in the works and hearing about his journey as an up and coming custom-guitar builder.
