Smooth Jazz with Patrick Yandall, in San Diego, California. Premiere musician with a sound and flavor all of his own. Unique, vibrant, fresh and versatile.
Over the years, Patrick Yandall has built a enviable reputation as the consummate working musician. But, to quote Patrick, "recording (my own) albums is truly what I live for". The San Diego based guitarist recently released From the Ashes, his fifth solo cd. The project is dedicated to all the families that lost their homes in the fires in and around San Diego just last year. Yandall himself was forced to evacuate although his home was spared. Hence the title of the album. With the support of several top-shelf players, including Scott Wilkie, Joel Rosenblatt (Spyro Gyra), Kimo Cornwell (Hiroshima), Randy Brecker, and Jason Weber; Yandall delivers what is arguably his most consistent and finest effort to date ...
Michael Lucarelli is considered one of today's leading guitarists. He is known for his unique programming and expressive style. Brian Staker from the Event writes "In the hands of a master instrumentalist, who shapes the sound almost like a sculptor molds a block of clay, classical music isn't stale or static at all, but galvanizing."
Michael is very sought after for concerts, festivals, weddings, conventions, and private events. Mr. Lucarelli blends Classical, Spanish, South American, orignal compositions & Popular arrangements to create that perfect atmosphere ...
Mario Barisic: A guitar playing fanatic Mario is brand new guitar player. Many years he is trying to find his own sound and expression, now Mario is near that achievement although that is infinite trip...Mario is a modern guitar player, fusing the elements of rock, blues, progressive, metal, alternative and creating a distinguishing signature. Most important for this guitarist is emotional performance and melody.
He claims to be more of a blues-rock player, it was the influence of jazz that led him to the style of playing and composing at the moment...
Barisic prefer instictive playing guitar with lots of improvisation, that is the only way to feel freedom during session...
Buck Dharma, lead guitarist for Blue Oyster Cult. New music, guitar playing tips, photo gallery, fun interactive activities, live chats and other fun stuff.
A twist of fate, or more accurately, a twist of the wrist, turned Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser into a guitar player.
Surrounded by music growing up, Roeser spent his formative years listening to his father, an accomplished jazz saxophonist, and naturally gravitated toward the melodic arts as the years progressed. As a child, Roeser briefly toyed with the accordion, but when the British Invasion made a loud landing on US shores, he finally discovered his true calling: Rock & Roll. Buck's first love wasn't the guitar however. He began his journey to rock legend as a drummer.
But as it happened, fate intervened early, when the young Roeser fractured his left wrist on the basketball court. Unable to quell his musical energies, he began fiddling around with the guitar during his recovery. Slowly, the realization dawned that he enjoyed plucking a guitar just as much as banging skins, and the rest is rock history ...
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Official Website on Sony Music:
By the summer of 1982, Stevie Ray Vaughan was already a veteran of the Southern blues circuit. Desperately searching for his big break, he was asked to play "Blues Night" at the annual Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland. Playing like his life depended on it, Stevie put on a fiery performance - full of future SRV classics like "Pride And Joy" and "Love Struck Baby." The audience could not have cared less. Every song Stevie played was greeted by an increasing wave of boos and hisses and he left the stage bewildered and heart-broken.
As fate would have it, this would be the most important single show Stevie ever played. In attendance at the festival were two figures who would prove instrumental in Stevie's subsequent rise to stardom: David Bowie and Jackson Browne. They immediately recognized Stevie's raw talent and limitless passion. As a result, Jackson Browne offered Stevie the opportunity to record (free of charge) at his own studio--the tapes that would be Texas Flood--Stevie's first studio album for Epic Records. In addition, Stevie was asked to play on Bowie's hugely successful Let's Dance album and tour ...
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" ...