“Bandstand mentoring is still an important vehicle for those up and coming to be well-rounded musicians and to have a sustainable career. The bandstand teaches life.” Jacques Lesure I first “met” Jacques Lesure on Facebook […]
“…I wasn’t thinking at all about making a living; I was only thinking about making music.” Jon Herington I first found out about Jon Herington when I happened upon a one off album by a […]
If when you hear the name Jon Herington you immediately think of a Jazz Fusion player who is also the instrumental guitar voice when Steely Dan hit the stage, well think again. I mean don’t get me […]
Jimmy Bruno. Vic Juris. Corey Christiansen. Three significant and exceedingly talented names on the contemporary Jazz Guitar scene. As individual artists they each have highly respected solo careers that cumulatively span decades of top notch […]
Jazz Guitarist Kevin Van Sant and Bassist Ben Palmer are two local North Carolina Jazz artists who not only share a love for Jazz and the improvised line, but apparently a love for the music […]
Real And Imagined, the second CD for New York based Jazz Guitarist Dave Allen, is a tour de force of composition and technical mastery that appears to know no bounds. As a Guitarist, composer and […]
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“In one sense for me it’s been relatively easy to be honest. This isn’t to say that I haven’t worked really hard to make it happen, because I have put an enormous amount of time […]
“So we had to learn to kind of give it up, surrender, do our best and not worry about it. It’s very liberating, but that doesn’t happen by accident, you decide to do that based […]
“I, like many musicians, thought the major labels would come looking for me, wanting to sign me, but that didn’t happen. As I have learned a lot about the industry I realized that had little […]
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