To say thanks to all his followers on Facebook, for supporting his online written and video lessons, this weekend Matt Warnock will be giving away 1 free sixty-minute one-on-one Skype lesson to a lucky follower of his Facebook teaching page. The lesson can be taken any time that fits their schedules, and can be split up into two 30-minute lessons if preferred.
Real Gone Music, the new indie label headed by reissue gurus Gordon Anderson and Gabby Castellana will roll out a never-before-released Glen Campbell live album, Bill Medley’s post-Righteous Brothers solo albums for MGM, a 1975 album by Maggie & Terre Roche of the Roches, a retrospective of country singer Jody Miller’s Epic Records years and two new Dick’s Picks volumes from the Grateful Dead for their January 2012 lineup of reissues. According to a press release, the January releases will also feature, as part of the label’s ongoing partnership with ABKCO Music & Records, Inc., The Tymes’ So Much in Love and the complete Cameo recordings of stratospheric jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson.
The 43rd Annual Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival is set to kick off this coming Sunday, October 16th and will run all the way until Thursday, December 1st, 2011. The month-and-a-half long celebration will feature performances by many great artists, including Maria Schneider Orchestra, Rudresh Mahanthappa Samdhi, Vijay Iyer Trio, Pat Metheny with Larry Grenadier and Bill Stewart, Eliane Elias Brazilian Quartet, bassist Dave Holland with Flamenco guitar legend Pepe Habichuela, Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau, Randy Weston and his African Rhythms Trio, Madeleine Peyroux, Michel Camilo ‘Mano a Mano’ with Giovanni Hidalgo and Charles Flores, Buena Vista Social Club with Omara Portuondo, Michael Janisch-Aruan Ortiz Quintet with Greg Osby and Raynald Colom, and Ken Vandermark’s Made to Break.
Guitar International’s globetrotting Editor in Chief, Matthew Warnock, was recently featured on Venegas Music’s weekly interview and performance show in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The show, which is run by talented guitarist and interviewer Ivan Barasnevicius, has been on the air since 2008, with each weekly video also being uploaded for people to check out from across the globe.
Filmmaker Timothy Ro has released a new short film entitled The Conversationalist, with Guitar International’s Dr. Matthew Warnock contributing the score. According to MattWarnockGuitar.com, Timothy Ro contacted him after the piece was filmed about recording the score. “He wanted a jazzy feel to the music, kind of Ed Bickert meets Gene Bertoncini, I immediately agreed to do the project.”
After recently launching his website to wide acclaim in the guitar world, Jazz guitarist and Guitar International editor Matt Warnock will be launching the first edition of his newsletter on Monday July 11, 2011. Subscribers will receive weekly editions of the letter, sent out each Monday at noon EST, featuring exclusive guitar lessons that can be found only in the newsletter.
MattWarnockGuitar.com, the brand-new website of performer, educator, music journalist, and Editor-in-Chief of Guitar International Magazine, Dr. Matt Warnock, was launched yesterday, June 5th. The site is a wealth of guitar-related information, resources, and news providing guitarists of any skill level with the tools to succeed.
Chick Corea, Lenny White, and Stanley Clarke have added Jean-Luc Ponty and Frank Gambale to form the newest incarnation of the legendary jazz fusion group Return to Forever.
Music fans are lining up to grab tickets for this year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (April 29 through May 8, 2011) with its feast of hot performers. The line-up this year features some of the top music legends in the world, including: Jeff Beck and Robert Plant and his Band of Joy. The festival has been a hallmark New Orleans event since it began in April 1970, when it featured the legendary Mahalia Jackson and inimitable Duke Ellington. Since that time, Jazzfest has drawn crowds with the likes of Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, Sarah Vaughan, Joni Mitchell, and a vast host of other music legends from all music genres.
Take a jazz guitar legend, add a comprehensively designed series of lessons, garnish with thousands of guitar students from around the world, mix thoroughly with direct teacher and student interaction, and you get a recipe that sets the standard for guitar education on the Internet. Jimmy Bruno, a jazz guitar phenomenon with over 40 years of recording, touring, and teaching experience, has reworked his former online teaching website to create an even more effective learning system.
