Joe Beck:
During a career spanning five decades, Joe Beck has recorded with an incredible array of artists including Miles Davis (Joe was his first guitarist)
Gil Evans, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich, Paul Desmond, Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Stan Getz, Larry Coryell, Gene Ammons, Sergio Mendez, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Laura Nyro, Houston Person, Roger Kellaway, Richie Havens, Paul Simon, Joe Farrell, James Brown, Gato Barbieri, and countless others.
Joe has been composing music for TV and film for thirty years and the recording industry (National Academy of Recording Arts And Sciences) has honored him five times with their Most Valuable Player Award. He has also recorded with the Royal Philharmonic orchestra in London, the Milan Philharmonic in Italy, and The Paris String Ensemble in France.
Joe continues to do co-artist albums with a wide range of artists from Mike Mainieri to John Babarian (one of the world's foremost Middle Eastern musicians), to Sabicas (perhaps the greatest of all Flemenco guitarists), and David Sanborn ("Beck /Sanborn" on Columbia) . The most recent being the beautiful Alto Guitar/Vocal duo with Deborah Brown, "I Found My Thrill".
Joe also arranged and produced many records including projects for Frank Sinatra, Gloria Gaynor, and two albums for Esther Phillips including her hit single, "What A Difference A Day Makes". Along the way Joe was signed to contracts with Columbia, Polydor, Verve, Gryphon, CTI, and MGM Records. Since the late '80's he has recorded four albums ("Relaxin'" , "Friends" ,"Back To Beck" , "The Journey") on the DMP label. as well as "Fingerpainting", on the Wavetone label which features Bill Evans on sax, Danny Gottlieb on drums, and Mark Egan on bass.
Guitairist Mark Kleinhaut's website features reviews, photo gallery, recordings, press kit.
Extensive collaborations (recording and touring) with Bobby Watson, Tiger Okoshi
Five CD's of original compositions. The 2003 CD with Bobby Watson made the Top 50 National Jazz Radio Charts for the first two months of 2004 and broke "Top-20".
Conducts clinics and workshops on jazz improvisation for students, grade school through University.
Activist for jazz, jazz education and audience development. Past President of the Maine Jazz Alliance and a founding director of Access Jazz, Inc.
Mark Kleinhaut has been playing jazz guitar for over thirty years, during which time he has achieved one of the most prized and elusive goals in jazz - a highly personal sound and recognizable voice on his instrument. His clean guitar tones may first recall one to the great tradition of mainstream jazz guitarists like Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino, but listeners soon detect something else in Kleinhaut's highly evolved vocabulary. His playing avoids the clichés and trappings of the too-familiar jazz jargon in favor of melodic phrases that twist and leap passionately with the immediacy of the moment, yet follow his relentless pursuit of logic, balance and beauty. Mark Kleinhaut is also a prolific jazz composer and has five CDs of his original jazz compositions, including "Chasing Tales" with trumpeter Tiger Okoshi and "A Balance of Light", with Bobby Watson on alto sax. Kleinhaut's newest release, "Holding the Center" (January 2006), represents further artistic evolution of his style with use of sampled sounds, electronic guitar effects and rhythms borrowed from latin, funk, rock and reggae music ...
A native of Brazil, Aliéksey Vianna is one of the few guitarists equally at ease in the worlds of jazz and classical music alike. While still an undergraduate, Vianna distinguished himself by winning first place honors in the Portland Festival Solo Guitar Competition (1998), second place in the prestigious Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition (1997), first place in the Schaeffer Guitar Competition (1995), first place in the Sholin Memorial Guitar Competition (1997) and first place in the Ralph Stevens Guitar Competition (1997). He also received the Tucson Jazz Society award (1995) and the Herb Ellis Award as best jazz guitarist at the 1997 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival.
An international concert artist, Vianna has given solo and ensemble recitals in the United States, Brazil, Mexico and France, and performed in master classes of Abel Carlevaro, Oscar Gighlia, David Leisner, Sharon Isbin, Ivan Rijos, Scott Tennant, Gordon O'Brien, Paul O'Dette, Nigel North and Ralph Towner. At one of Vianna's recent solo concerts, the music reviewer Ken Keuffel, Jr. from the Arizona Daily Star praised his performance, writing: "Vianna brings loads of personality to his playing . . . making every lick come alive with polish and fire" ...
Acoustic fingerstyle 6 and 12-string guitarist Richard Gilewitz official web site. Master teacher,entertainer, clinician, performer of folk, blues, classical, and originals for a historical journal into American and European fingerstyle guitar in concerts, school programs, seminars, and workshops.
Composing and performing a kaleidoscopic mixture of instrumental selections for the guitar, Richard Gilewitz is an internationally acclaimed soloperformer who forges a new voice to include the expanse of his influences. His complex and energetic original works become stories from the guitar and deliver invitations to each listener to take a journey with him through the past and present realm of guitar music ...
Bo Diddley - The Originator. A Celebration of his unique contribution to popular music, and the most detailed and accurate source of information about Bo Diddley on the web.Bo Diddley, The Originator, Ellas Bates, Ellas McDaniel, Originator Radio, blues, R&B, rock & roll, rhythm & blues, soul, guitar, beat, Chess, Checker, Cadet, Janus, Argo, Pye International, London American, MCA, Lady Bo, Debby Hastings, Margo Lewis, TCI, Talent Consultants International, Talent Source, Johnnie Johnson, Jerome Green, Peggy Jones, Duchess, Rolling Stones, Pretty Things, Ron Wood, Hamilton, George Thorogood, Buddy Holly, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Etta James, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, Sonny Boy Williamson, Moonglows, Flamingos, Marvin Gaye, Billy Stewart, Mickey & Sylvia, Billy Boy Arnold, Little Walter, Willie Dixon, George R. White, McComb, Mississippi, Chicago, Washington DC, Los Lunas, New Mexico, Archer, Hawthorne, Gainesville, Florida