James Taylor's unofficial online home since 1994. Includes an active discussion forum, live chat, daily news updates, tour dates, sound clips, lyrics, a complete discography, biographical info, and more.
Costas Andreou creates soundscapes balancing between improvisation and composition. He mixes in real time the sounds of fretted and fretless electric bass with loops, electronics, sound fields and collages. He has collaborated with musicians, actors, dancers and visual artists, surrounding actions, emotions and structures with sounds and audio environments.
Get detailed information on acclaimed guitarist Slava Grigoryan at the Sony Classical Web site. Includes discography and current tour schedule.
The two albums Slava Grigoryan has recorded for Sony Classical -- The Spirit of Spain (SK 62627) and the more recent Dance of the Angel (SK 63011) -- reflect the guitarist’s effortless virtuosity and scintillating musicianship both in the standard repertoire of the classical guitar as well as crossover material. Forthcoming releases include an album of guitar transcriptions of celebrated Russian piano works and a second crossover album.
Born in Khazakstan in 1976, Slava Grigoryan has already performed extensively throughout the world. The youngest ever finalist in the Tokyo International Guitar Competition, he has since performed in concerts and at festivals across Europe. In the United States, he made his New York debut in 1997. Grigoryan has also headlined in a “Great Guitars” tour with the legendary flamenco player Paco Peña and the equally celebrated acoustic guitar stylist Leo Kottke ...
Official web site for Patty Larkin, including
tour info, discography, bio, and more.
A guitar focused singer/songwriter, Patty Larkin has immersed herself in a musical world that knows no borders. Her most recent solo release, Red=Luck, showcases a world where the ancient strains of modal folk meet brooding ambient noise. It is a world where Middle-Eastern flavored melodies collide with R&B, where joyous pop and somber reflection, playful eroticism and naked soul searching entwine. Here Larkin has created a world beyond her guitar that springs from the imagination, each song part of a tightly written song cycle cinema verite of challenging times. Red=Luck is the supremely assured work of an artist who has caught a near perfect wave: an artist whose influence becomes clearer with each passing season. While Larkin's fine guitar work has been recognized by live audiences since her emergence on the acoustic music scene, it is her skills as a producer, soundscape artist and songwriter that have garnered accolades from fans and critics alike (Billboard, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair) ...
Billy Jones, blues guitar:
This blues bandleader, who sings and plays guitar and calls his music "bluez," began releasing his own compact discs in 2001. When Billy Jones substituted a "z" for an "s," he was not trying to make the name of his beloved genre closer to the way a drunken bar patron might pronounce it at the end of the night. Rather, "bluez" is all about being independent from the big-time music business, a stance more often taken by indie rockers. While in reality even the biggest blues labels are nothing but small independents, these firms still represent too big a clique for Jones, who prefers issuing material on his own Cyborg-Blue imprint.
Though apparently not documented on many available recordings, Jones' involvement with blues goes back to his childhood. He was supposedly considered something of a prodigy, studying with artists such as Little Johnny Taylor, Rufus Thomas, and Larry Davis, among others. When he became a teenager he hit the road, musically hitting a variety of styles in the bands of the beautiful Chaka Khan, the tasty Chocolate Milk, and the rhythmically astute Bar-Kays. This background certainly ought to supply him with the goods to create a contemporary vision of roots music. He sees himself as part of a new movement in this genre, described colorfully as follows in his own promotional material: "...it ain't your grampa's music, or that same ol' predictable stuff that you may find at big corporate labels...But then...what do these 'fat cat' record company guys know about what's happening on the streets right now?" ...
Rainer Rohloff Songs und Projekte. classical guitar player:
“…It must be a special feeling to be a German guitarist, to sit in an International orchestra and play Greek music.
Rainer Rohloff, born in 1959, had already been given guitar lessons at the age of seven and finished his studies at the University of Music”Musikhochschule Weimar”from which he graduated with diploma in 1981. Not only his educational background but his ability to have a distant view at the conventional classic guitar music allowed him to be engaged as permanent member of the orchestra of the Greek componist Mikis Theodorakis in 1988. Rohloff had stayed there for about ten years and joined a number of tours and recordings. During that time his idea to do a brave project grew which also shows deep admiration of Theodorakis: the arrangement of some of his songs and works for classic guitar music as a solo program in order to add it to the guitar repertoire…”