|
 |
johnny a
Description
For Johnny A., the guitar has held a lifelong fascination, her six strings exerting a powerful influence and addictive beauty since the first time he held them. The pursuit of this musical lady with the perfect shape has driven his years - shaping the course of his life – taking him places he never could have imagined. Through inspiring moments of ecstatic improvisation, deep contemplation and inevitable gaps of frustration it has been a stormy affair with a tempestuous hollow-body lover, but the marriage has been nothing less than remarkable.
Johnny A. is widely regarded as one of America's finest contemporary guitarists. Gibson thinks so – their Custom Shop designed a Signature Edition guitar per his specific requests which, when it was marketed in 2003, placed him in an exclusive club that included legends like BB King, Wes Montgomery, Chet Atkins, Joe Perry, Pat Martino and Les Paul himself. The public thinks so too - Johnny A.'s latest works have sold many thousands of copies as well as being his personal best. The most recent CD's - 2004's Get Inside and 1999's Sometime Tuesday Morning, are the critically acclaimed solo culmination of a lifetime of learning, sharing and bonding in a long parade of bands and players.
As a bright-eyed six-year old in Malden, Massachusetts, Johnny became fascinated with the drums, a habit his father encouraged by buying him a kit. There were lessons and the Jr. High School marching band, but as fun as the skins were, he realized that their melodic capability was quite limited. Rhythm had taken a backseat to melody and since the most melodic instrument in any 60's beat group was guitar, those six-strings now began their inexorable pull on Johnny A's life. Once the four “mop-tops” from Liverpool dropped like a bomb from Ed Sullivan's studio into his living room in 1964, his course was set.
A $49 Lafayette Electronics guitar became Johnny A.'s first girlfriend. A humble beginning for sure, but his mom was no fool and wanted to be safe if this ‘guitar thing' just turned out to be another passing teenage phase. It wasn't. Johnny saw the Beatles at Suffolk Downs outside of Boston in 1966 and their magical presence sent the impressionable lad into a blur of activity – sweeping up hair and doing odd jobs at his aunt's salon to save up the 88 bucks needed to buy a Vox Clubman guitar. Then, of course, he had to have a Gretsch too. No, this was no passing phase ...
Johnny A. is widely regarded as one of America's finest contemporary guitarists. Gibson thinks so – their Custom Shop designed a Signature Edition guitar per his specific requests which, when it was marketed in 2003, placed him in an exclusive club that included legends like BB King, Wes Montgomery, Chet Atkins, Joe Perry, Pat Martino and Les Paul himself. The public thinks so too - Johnny A.'s latest works have sold many thousands of copies as well as being his personal best. The most recent CD's - 2004's Get Inside and 1999's Sometime Tuesday Morning, are the critically acclaimed solo culmination of a lifetime of learning, sharing and bonding in a long parade of bands and players.
As a bright-eyed six-year old in Malden, Massachusetts, Johnny became fascinated with the drums, a habit his father encouraged by buying him a kit. There were lessons and the Jr. High School marching band, but as fun as the skins were, he realized that their melodic capability was quite limited. Rhythm had taken a backseat to melody and since the most melodic instrument in any 60's beat group was guitar, those six-strings now began their inexorable pull on Johnny A's life. Once the four “mop-tops” from Liverpool dropped like a bomb from Ed Sullivan's studio into his living room in 1964, his course was set.
A $49 Lafayette Electronics guitar became Johnny A.'s first girlfriend. A humble beginning for sure, but his mom was no fool and wanted to be safe if this ‘guitar thing' just turned out to be another passing teenage phase. It wasn't. Johnny saw the Beatles at Suffolk Downs outside of Boston in 1966 and their magical presence sent the impressionable lad into a blur of activity – sweeping up hair and doing odd jobs at his aunt's salon to save up the 88 bucks needed to buy a Vox Clubman guitar. Then, of course, he had to have a Gretsch too. No, this was no passing phase ...
Category
Date
Dec 17, 2005
Contact name
Email
Link ID
11477
Write a Review
Add to My Favorite
Refer it to Friend
Report Broken Link
Other links at Guitar, Bass... > guitar players
Home page for acoustic guitarist David Allison:
Scottish celtic acoustic guitarist David Allison welcomes you here to sample his music, watch videos, download some mp3s, read about his looping techniques, find out about his various guitar tunings, and what's going on in his music career.
A new DVD and video "The Edge of the World" is now out.
"A great musical score" Empire magazine.
David Allison is one of Scotland's most talented and innovative acoustic guitarists. His strong, self penned melodies are backed up by a creative use of real-time sampling and looping, resulting in rich textures of sound live on stage. Improvisation is increasingly becoming a feature of his live shows.
Audiences from Hollywood in California to Rostov-on-Don in Russia and from Andalucia to Berlin have warmed to his unique approach to making music.
Nearer home David has performed at festivals such as Glasgow's Celtic Connections, the Edinburgh Fringe, Kirkmichael international Guitar Festival, and the International Guitar Festival of Great Britain, as well as frequent appearances on radio and television. He recently featured in a Scottish Television documentary about the acoustic guitar alongside Martin Taylor and Gordon Giltrap.
A DVD "The Edge of the World" about the remote island of St Kilda and featuring David's music was released by the British Film Institute in 2004. Empire magazine reviewed David's contribution as "a great musical score". "The Sea Harvesters" is another DVD with a soundtrack from David. It's a rare collection of archive films telling the story of deep sea fishing off Scotland in the 30's and 40's.
His groundbreaking album "Acoustic Movies" featured a CD ROM section, including a seven minute in-concert video and other multimedia material ...
Scottish celtic acoustic guitarist David Allison welcomes you here to sample his music, watch videos, download some mp3s, read about his looping techniques, find out about his various guitar tunings, and what's going on in his music career.
A new DVD and video "The Edge of the World" is now out.
"A great musical score" Empire magazine.
David Allison is one of Scotland's most talented and innovative acoustic guitarists. His strong, self penned melodies are backed up by a creative use of real-time sampling and looping, resulting in rich textures of sound live on stage. Improvisation is increasingly becoming a feature of his live shows.
Audiences from Hollywood in California to Rostov-on-Don in Russia and from Andalucia to Berlin have warmed to his unique approach to making music.
Nearer home David has performed at festivals such as Glasgow's Celtic Connections, the Edinburgh Fringe, Kirkmichael international Guitar Festival, and the International Guitar Festival of Great Britain, as well as frequent appearances on radio and television. He recently featured in a Scottish Television documentary about the acoustic guitar alongside Martin Taylor and Gordon Giltrap.
A DVD "The Edge of the World" about the remote island of St Kilda and featuring David's music was released by the British Film Institute in 2004. Empire magazine reviewed David's contribution as "a great musical score". "The Sea Harvesters" is another DVD with a soundtrack from David. It's a rare collection of archive films telling the story of deep sea fishing off Scotland in the 30's and 40's.
His groundbreaking album "Acoustic Movies" featured a CD ROM section, including a seven minute in-concert video and other multimedia material ...
Category:
ATANAS G. SHISHKOV an incredible guitar player. You can find music, lessons, tabs and more.
ATANAS G. SHISHKOV, Peavey, Line6, DR strings, George Bellas,Greg Howe,Richie Kotzen,Racer X, Tom Kopyto,Tony MacAlpine, Paul Gilbert,Francesco Fareri,Pablo Garcia,
Marty Friedman, Cacophony, Michael Angelo, Borislav Mitic, Dream Theater, Ron Thal, Bumblefoot,
Yngwie Malmsteen, Scott Mishoe, Symphony X, Frank Gambale,Student spotlight,Ibanez,
John Petrucci, Patrick Rondat, Vinnie Moore, Joey Tafolla, Brett Garsed, Giordano Cirillo,speed picking,
Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, guitar,instrumental, metal, progressive, neoclassical, guitar hero,virtuoso,
shred, music, sweep, sweeping,legato, tapping, string skipping,alternate picking, guitar techniques
ATANAS G. SHISHKOV, Peavey, Line6, DR strings, George Bellas,Greg Howe,Richie Kotzen,Racer X, Tom Kopyto,Tony MacAlpine, Paul Gilbert,Francesco Fareri,Pablo Garcia,
Marty Friedman, Cacophony, Michael Angelo, Borislav Mitic, Dream Theater, Ron Thal, Bumblefoot,
Yngwie Malmsteen, Scott Mishoe, Symphony X, Frank Gambale,Student spotlight,Ibanez,
John Petrucci, Patrick Rondat, Vinnie Moore, Joey Tafolla, Brett Garsed, Giordano Cirillo,speed picking,
Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, guitar,instrumental, metal, progressive, neoclassical, guitar hero,virtuoso,
shred, music, sweep, sweeping,legato, tapping, string skipping,alternate picking, guitar techniques
Category:
Official website for jazz and jazztronica recording artist Chris Standring.
"Groovalicious!" sounds like just the sort of thing Austin Powers might say if he heard the deliciously funky, ultra-hip and vibey, retro-jazz-soul flavors on Chris Standring's long awaited follow-up to Hip Sway, his hit 2000 recording which defined the urban-minded contemporary jazz experience as we crossed millenniums.
Since the release of Velvet, his 1998 debut as a solo artist, The British born guitarist has titled his discs as a way of defining the places his creative muse has taken him. Velvet, whose single "Cool Shades" went Top 10 for over three months on Gavin/Radio & Records' airplay charts, came at a time when Standring was into the ambient European phenomenon known as the "chill out movement." The seductive moniker of Hip Sway, whose title track featuring sax great Richard Elliot peaked at #2 and was one of 2000's most played songs, captured the retro-flavored, dance floor ready, funk-soul-jazz 60's mindset explored by Standring with his bandmates Rodney Lee (keyboards), Dino Soldo (sax), Andre Berry (bass) and Dave Karasony (drums). The title of the 2001 U.K. and Europe only compilation release Shades of Cool is obviously self-perpetuating ...
"Groovalicious!" sounds like just the sort of thing Austin Powers might say if he heard the deliciously funky, ultra-hip and vibey, retro-jazz-soul flavors on Chris Standring's long awaited follow-up to Hip Sway, his hit 2000 recording which defined the urban-minded contemporary jazz experience as we crossed millenniums.
Since the release of Velvet, his 1998 debut as a solo artist, The British born guitarist has titled his discs as a way of defining the places his creative muse has taken him. Velvet, whose single "Cool Shades" went Top 10 for over three months on Gavin/Radio & Records' airplay charts, came at a time when Standring was into the ambient European phenomenon known as the "chill out movement." The seductive moniker of Hip Sway, whose title track featuring sax great Richard Elliot peaked at #2 and was one of 2000's most played songs, captured the retro-flavored, dance floor ready, funk-soul-jazz 60's mindset explored by Standring with his bandmates Rodney Lee (keyboards), Dino Soldo (sax), Andre Berry (bass) and Dave Karasony (drums). The title of the 2001 U.K. and Europe only compilation release Shades of Cool is obviously self-perpetuating ...
Category:
Steve Hackett's career has been an on-going love affair with music. Over the last 24 or so years has continued to amaze and delight both his fans and his critics with the breadth and depth of the music that he has produced.
It began with various bands in which he was very much a session player - Canterbury Glass and Sarabande to name but two. Steve's first foray into the world of recording came however, when he joined the band Quiet World in 1970. In a recent interview he recalled the circumstances in which the album came to be recorded ...
This album, titled 'The Road', was released in 1970 by Dawn Records and was also reputedly re-issued by that label in Japan.
Steve's career with Genesis has been exhaustively covered elsewhere however it would be inappropriate not to say something about his time with that most influential and enduring of seventies superbands.
Steve joined in early 1971 as a replacement for founder member Anthony Phillips when Peter Gabriel answered his ad in Melody Maker ...
It began with various bands in which he was very much a session player - Canterbury Glass and Sarabande to name but two. Steve's first foray into the world of recording came however, when he joined the band Quiet World in 1970. In a recent interview he recalled the circumstances in which the album came to be recorded ...
This album, titled 'The Road', was released in 1970 by Dawn Records and was also reputedly re-issued by that label in Japan.
Steve's career with Genesis has been exhaustively covered elsewhere however it would be inappropriate not to say something about his time with that most influential and enduring of seventies superbands.
Steve joined in early 1971 as a replacement for founder member Anthony Phillips when Peter Gabriel answered his ad in Melody Maker ...
Category:
Jesse van Ruller was the first European musician to win the prestigious Thelonious Monk Competition in Washington in 1995. The jury, consisting of Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Jim Hall, Pat Martino and Mark Whitfield, was of the opinion that van Ruller is one of the most promising talents of his time.
Pat Metheny: "Jesse is one of the best young players I've ever heard".
Jim Hall: "Most expressive player, he really touched me on a personal level".
John Scofield: "Jesse van Ruller is a marvellous guitar player".
Jesse van Ruller graduated summa cum laude from the Hilversum Conservatory in 1995, where he studied with Wim Overgaauw. Since then he has performed and recorded with a wide array of renowned musicians and ensembles amongst which are Seamus Blake, Philip Catherine, Toots Thielemans, John Patitutcci, Bill Stewart, Peter Erskine, Joe Lovano, Elvin Jones, Christian McBride, the Metropole Orchestra, the Asko Ensemble and the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner Symphoniker under Simon Rattle and many more ...
Pat Metheny: "Jesse is one of the best young players I've ever heard".
Jim Hall: "Most expressive player, he really touched me on a personal level".
John Scofield: "Jesse van Ruller is a marvellous guitar player".
Jesse van Ruller graduated summa cum laude from the Hilversum Conservatory in 1995, where he studied with Wim Overgaauw. Since then he has performed and recorded with a wide array of renowned musicians and ensembles amongst which are Seamus Blake, Philip Catherine, Toots Thielemans, John Patitutcci, Bill Stewart, Peter Erskine, Joe Lovano, Elvin Jones, Christian McBride, the Metropole Orchestra, the Asko Ensemble and the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner Symphoniker under Simon Rattle and many more ...
Category:
Main Category
11
2005
555
335
215
6
791
59
2257
363
411
190
140
211
22
2321
74
120
3
178
36
145
105
36
14
26
1038
159
234
98
273
9
1068
151
245
144
312
255
348
15
78
214
128
70
414
536
2604
91
Top 10
Statistics
Links: 17467
Categories: 1112
Unique Outgoing Hits: 4641335
Pagerank Statistics
