Guitarist Paul Meyers' website features reviews, sound bites, cds, projects, guitar great profiles, biography.
Guitarist/Composer, has performed and/or recorded with Geri Allen, Kenny Barron, Andy Bey, Ron Carter, Ray Drummond, Eliane Elias, Clare Fischer, Sonny Fortune, Eddie Gomez, Stefon Harris, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross, Marc Johnson, Wynton Marsalis, Rufus Reid, David Sanchez, Kenny Werner, Frank Wess and the Woody Herman Orchestra in appearances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kool Jazz Festival, jazz clubs and on national tours. He's also been touring for years with two great jazz singers - Jon Hendricks since 1993, and Andy Bey since 1997.
The Official BB King Website:
His reign as King of the Blues has been as long as that of any monarch on earth. Yet B.B. King continues to wear his crown well. At age 76, he is still light on his feet, singing and playing the blues with relentless passion. Time has no apparent effect on B.B., other than to make him more popular, more cherished, more relevant than ever. Don't look for him in some kind of semi-retirement; look for him out on the road, playing for people, popping up in a myriad of T.V. commercials, or laying down tracks for his next album. B.B. King is as alive as the music he plays, and a grateful world can't get enough of him.
For more than half a century, Riley B. King - better known as B.B. King - has defined the blues for a worldwide audience. Since he started recording in the 1940s, he has released over fifty albums, many of them classics. He was born September 16, 1925, on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, near Indianola. In his youth, he played on street corners for dimes, and would sometimes play in as many as four towns a night. In 1947, he hitchhiked to Memphis, TN, to pursue his music career. Memphis was where every important musician of the South gravitated, and which supported a large musical community where every style of African American music could be found. B.B. stayed with his cousin Bukka White, one of the most celebrated blues performers of his time, who schooled B.B. further in the art of the blues ...
Greg Cooper:
"Greg is the most versatile and accomplished musician I've ever had the pleasure of working with"
Ron Veil - Uncle Spot.
"Greg plays blues, jazz and rock guitar styles as well as anyone I've ever heard"
Charlie Kittleson
Vacuum Tube Valley Magazine.
Author of: The Chord Scale Guide,
Melodic Lines for the Intermediate Guitarist ...
John Bruce Wallace is a composer, improvisational guitarist, and painter. He has performed concerts in Russia and Lithuania as well as in the United States. Mr.Wallace has shared performance billings with: Tim Hodgkinson, Evan Ziporyn, John King, Vladimir Tarasov, ZGA, Enver Izmailov, Burham Ocal and Jazz Band Arkhangel'sk, to name a few. His recordings have received radio and Internet airplay across the United States, Canada, and Europe. His performances and recordings have been reviewed in leading foreign and domestic trade journals and publications. His paintings have been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC, as well as other exhibitions across the United States. His computer images have been exhibited on line at the MetaCreations (formerly MetaTools) Users' Gallery web site. He has published a monograph in philosophy on solipsism. His production company, Jace W. Ball Creative Enterprises, serves as an outlet for his music and painting endeavors, as well as graphic arts and record production. He is currently employed as the Information and Marketing Coordinator of a Washington, DC law firm.