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jeff fiorentino
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Los Angeles based pro guitarist Jeff Fiorentino: check out jfr van 101 riffs and solos great guitar lessons, all with tab and audio and video to help.
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Canadian jazz guitarist Doc Dosco moved to Los Angeles from Canada in the late 1970s. Soon after he began playing gigs and doing studio work. With long time friend and producer Esmond Edwards, (George Benson, Kenny Burrell, B.B. King) Doc has played on recordings with jazz greats such as Blue Mitchell, Eddie Harris, Gene Harris, Red Halloway, Cedar Walton, Harold Land, Paulinho Da Costa and he has shared the stage with many others. He has had his jazz tunes recorded by Blue Mitchell, Eddie Harris and Herman Riley.
"I did tons of 'guitar for hire' studio dates back then", says Doc, "and I gigged a lot during the late seventies and eighties. I was a funky fusion style player and there was lots of funk style work. I also did pick-up work, casuals, society gigs and played numerous concerts with old timers such as Little Anthony, the Drifters, the Diamonds, the Platters, Freddie Cannon and such. I also wrote songs for Jerry Lee Lewis and German pop phenom Nina Hagen, and recorded several albums with the revolutionary Motown recording artists Black Russian. Towards the late eighties, I started drifting away from guitar playing and into electronic music, record production and audio consultation. This in turn, led to some pretty bleak years as far as playing went" ...
"I did tons of 'guitar for hire' studio dates back then", says Doc, "and I gigged a lot during the late seventies and eighties. I was a funky fusion style player and there was lots of funk style work. I also did pick-up work, casuals, society gigs and played numerous concerts with old timers such as Little Anthony, the Drifters, the Diamonds, the Platters, Freddie Cannon and such. I also wrote songs for Jerry Lee Lewis and German pop phenom Nina Hagen, and recorded several albums with the revolutionary Motown recording artists Black Russian. Towards the late eighties, I started drifting away from guitar playing and into electronic music, record production and audio consultation. This in turn, led to some pretty bleak years as far as playing went" ...
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2. greg douglas
Greg Douglass was born on October 11, 1949, in Oakland, California. He spent his formative years in Walnut Creek, California, a bucolic little suburban burg near Berkeley. Inspired by the British Invasion, surf music, and his rampaging hormones, he took up guitar at thirteen. After working in several local bands, Greg finally settled into The Virtues, a top 40 cover band that wore matching gold suits and played Beatles songs.
In 1967, the Summer of Love, The Virtues traded in their matching suits for long hair and Levis and became Country Weather. Armed with original material and an attitude, they became an irregular opening act at the Fillmore West and the Avalon Ballroom, opening for acts like Ten Years After, Sly and the Family Stone, and Greg's No. 1 personal guitar hero, Jeff Beck.
Douglass remembers: "Here I was, learning how to play guitar in front of huge crowds, and having to follow Jeff Beck to boot. It wasn't tough being humble."
Country Weather dissipated in 1972, and drummer Bill Baron and Greg formed Mistress, a power trio that also included Brian Kilcourse on bass, vocals, and songwriting. It was the first time Greg acted as the frontman for a group, and word began to spread about this hotshot from the East Bay. (Greg's long-time association with Terry & the Pirates and the late, great guitarist John Cipollina also blossomed during this period.)
The band performed a string of still-legendary live shows and recorded an album at Wally Heider's Studio in San Francisco, produced by the late, great Mallory Earl. The completed album was passed on by every record label it was presented to. (The same album was recently released on the German label, Taxim, as Greg Douglass and Mistress: Free Flyte, and is garnering great reviews and sales twenty-three years after its creation.) ...
In 1967, the Summer of Love, The Virtues traded in their matching suits for long hair and Levis and became Country Weather. Armed with original material and an attitude, they became an irregular opening act at the Fillmore West and the Avalon Ballroom, opening for acts like Ten Years After, Sly and the Family Stone, and Greg's No. 1 personal guitar hero, Jeff Beck.
Douglass remembers: "Here I was, learning how to play guitar in front of huge crowds, and having to follow Jeff Beck to boot. It wasn't tough being humble."
Country Weather dissipated in 1972, and drummer Bill Baron and Greg formed Mistress, a power trio that also included Brian Kilcourse on bass, vocals, and songwriting. It was the first time Greg acted as the frontman for a group, and word began to spread about this hotshot from the East Bay. (Greg's long-time association with Terry & the Pirates and the late, great guitarist John Cipollina also blossomed during this period.)
The band performed a string of still-legendary live shows and recorded an album at Wally Heider's Studio in San Francisco, produced by the late, great Mallory Earl. The completed album was passed on by every record label it was presented to. (The same album was recently released on the German label, Taxim, as Greg Douglass and Mistress: Free Flyte, and is garnering great reviews and sales twenty-three years after its creation.) ...
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3. greg cooper
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"
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Author of: The Chord Scale Guide,
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"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 ...
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4. al di meola
The Official Website of Al Di Meola: Al Di Meola holds the most prestigious guitar awards (of any guitarist in the world) from the highest rated guitar poll in the world, Guitar Player Magazine. He has been known throughout the world for the past two and a half decades as one of the most prominent virtuosos in the contemporary instrumental jazz field.
Al Di Meola's highly celebrated career has spanned a wide range of emotions into a unique style embodying the artists world inspired influences. From the velocity and heat of his early solo efforts to the challenge and triumph of the "Di Meola / McLaughlin / De Lucia (Guitar Trio)", from the Brazilian explorations of “Cielo e Terra” and “Soaring Through A Dream” to the global romanticism and Tango inflection of Al's acoustic group "World Synfonia" (self titled debut) and the 2nd "World Sinfonia" recording Heart of the Immigrants.
From the beginning of his solo career, where records like "Land of the Midnight Sun", "Elegant Gypsy" and "Casino", were amongst the highest selling records of any instrumental artist at that time. Al Di Meola continues to make, with respect, startling achievements in music pioneering while the decline of U.S. radio continues to elude most interesting contemporary music ...
Al Di Meola's highly celebrated career has spanned a wide range of emotions into a unique style embodying the artists world inspired influences. From the velocity and heat of his early solo efforts to the challenge and triumph of the "Di Meola / McLaughlin / De Lucia (Guitar Trio)", from the Brazilian explorations of “Cielo e Terra” and “Soaring Through A Dream” to the global romanticism and Tango inflection of Al's acoustic group "World Synfonia" (self titled debut) and the 2nd "World Sinfonia" recording Heart of the Immigrants.
From the beginning of his solo career, where records like "Land of the Midnight Sun", "Elegant Gypsy" and "Casino", were amongst the highest selling records of any instrumental artist at that time. Al Di Meola continues to make, with respect, startling achievements in music pioneering while the decline of U.S. radio continues to elude most interesting contemporary music ...
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