The Official Steve Vai website, with news of the Grammy Award-winning musician including tour dates, videos, a Quicktime studio tour, guitar galleries, fan forum and more. The former guitarist for the likes of Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth, Whitesnake and others' new release is the CD - Real Illusions: Reflections.Steve Vai, Vai, Steve Via, Steven Vai, guitar, guitarist, guitar player, gitarist, musician, guitars, lesson, guitar lessons, Ibanez, Jem, Universe, 7-string, 6-string, SteveVai, SteveVia, Ultra Zone, Passion, Warfare, Sex, Religion, Alien Love Secrets, Frank Zappa, Zappa, Whitesnake, David Lee Roth, Favored Nations, video, photos, audio, music, Carvin, Legacy, Crossroads, Secret Jewel Box, G3, G3'03, tour, rock, euphoria, acoustic, real illusions, new, album, reflections, yai yai, building the church, dying for your love, lotus feet, glorious, freak show excess, midway creatures, under it all, firewall
Glenn Kaiser Band:
Over twenty-five years of Glenn Kaiser's pioneering contemporary Christian music ministry have culminated in the Glenn Kaiser Band, a scorching power trio that serves up hard-driving blues rock with no-nonsense lyrics that appeal to both longtime Resurrection Band fans as well as fans of Kaiser's ground breaking solo blues albums.
Fans of Resurrection Band will note that influence, as Kaiser and Montroy were principal songwriters for REZ.
Dennis Nattrass, Wah Wah Willie and the Wakahoochie Wanderers:
Wah Wah Willie is the brainchild of Australian composer/guitarist/surfer Dennis Nattrass.
After years of adding superlative musicianship to feature film, Wah Wah has emerged with "Cinema", an expertly produced and passionate debut release full of fantastic guitar and steel playing, great songs and deeply felt lyrics.
The album is available now through Windsong Records.
A brief history of film soundtracks, session work and other recordings follows.
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" ...
Guitarist Ron Jackson's website features reviews, sound bites, itinerary, biography, cds.
Welcome to the official website of New York based jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, producer, recording artist, instructor, Ron Jackson. Here you can read Ron's itinerary, his biography, reviews, listen to sound bytes of his music, view his links, download his photos and press, and buy his CDs.
Ron is considered one of the most versatile guitarists in the music world. Ron is adept in styles such as African, Rock, R+B, Brazilian, Pop, Country, Calypso, Reggae, Soul and Funk, Classical, but his greatest passion is in jazz. His main jazz guitar influences are George Benson, Charley Christian, Wes Montgomery, Les Paul, Kenny Burrell, Pat Metheny, Django Reinhardt, Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, Johnny Smith, John Scofield, Grant Green, Jim Hall and John McLaughlin.
Ron has 5 jazz guitar instrumental CD's as a leader, "A Guitar Thing" and "Thinking of You" on Muse Records, "Song For Luis" - a duo with Rufus Reid on Mastermix Records, "Concrete Jungle" is co-led with bassist Nicki Parrott on Airmen Records and "The Dream I Had" is on Roni Music, all of which you can purchase on this website. You can also hear MP3 samples from Ron's CDs ...
Remi Boucher: classical guitar:
Classical Guitarist Rémi Boucher was born in 1964 in Rouyn-Noranda (Québec Canada). He studied the classical guitar at the Montreal Conservatory with Jean Vallières and afterwards completed his studies in Spain (with J. Henriquez, J. L. Rodrigo, V. Mikulka, David Russell, M. Barrueco), in Belgium at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp with (V. van Puijenbroeck) and in Switzerland at the Basel Academy with O. Ghiglia. He is now living in Austria. Those travels would not have been accomplished without the aid of the "Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec" and the Canada Council, which not only offered him many grants, but the Sylva Gelber Award, making Rémi Boucher the first guitarist in 30 years to win this honor! In addition to his many national and international prizes, in less than 18 months, Rémi Boucher has conquered Europe, America and Asia winning at the unanimously
the first prize in five of the most important international music competitions. (Alessandria in Italy, Andrès Segovia in Palma de Mallorca in Spain, Havana in Cuba, Mauro Guiliani in Turin, and Fernando Sor in Roma).
With such success, he was invited by many major symphonic orchestras giving him the opportunity to perform up to ten of the greatest guitar concertos and having the privilege to play under the direction of Leo Brouwer, the famous Cuban composer.
His love and relationship with other cultures, and his interest in all kinds of instruments, helped him to discover new technical possibilities which allow him to enlarge the capabilities of the instrument. A pioneer in that domain, he collaborates closely with composers to create a repertory that serves these new musical possibilities. To study those techniques Rémi Boucher has also created a series of his own compositions and a new technical method. His most recent success was the result of seven years collaboration with his favorite composer and pianist Canadian Jacques Marchand ...