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Jeff Kollman (Cosmosquad, Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats) will embark on a clinic tour for Fender this spring. Dates and locations are below.
April 7th - 7:00PM
Spotlight
Music
4606 S. Mason St.
Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA
April 8th - TBD
Robb's
Boulder Music
2691 30th St.
Boulder, Colorado 80301, USA
April 13th - 6:00PM
Guitar Showcase
3090 S. Bascom Ave.
San Jose, California 95124, USA
April 14th - 6:00PM
Herreid Music
824 Oroville Ave.
Chico, California 95926, USA
April 15th - 6:00PM
Nicholson Music
636 E. Bidwell
Folsom, California 95630, USA
April 20th - 7:00PM
Guitar Trader
7120 Clairemont Mesa
San Diego, California 92111, USA
April 21st - 7:00PM
Instrumental
Music
3171 E. Main St.
Ventura, California 93003, USA
April 22nd - 7:00PM
West L.A. Music
11345 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, California 90025, USA
April 27th - 7:00PM
Ted Brown Music
Silverdale, Washington, USA
April 28th - 7:00PM
Ted Brown Music
Tacoma, Washington, USA
April 29th - 7:00PM
American
Music
Bellevue, Washington, USA
April 30th - 5:00PM
Ted Brown Music
Yakima, Washington, USA
May 4th - 7:00PM
New Braunfels
Music
1028 N. Business N. HI35
New Braunfels, Texas 78130, USA
May 5th - 7:00PM
Texas Music
Emporium
132D FM 960
Houston, Texas 77073, USA
May 6th - 7:30PM
The Music Store
9120C E. 31st. Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74145, USA
From Abstract Logix news:
Anomaly (shipping April 21; now available for pre-order) to feature Stanley Clarke, Victor Bailey, Jimmy Herring, George
Colligan, David Gilmore and other luminaries in this Genre Defying
Recording.
Following his triumphant worldwide reunion tour with
Return To Forever in 2008 and separate trio tours in 2009 with Chick
Corea and Stanley Clarke and pianist Hiromi with Clarke, Lenny White was
primed to put out his own recording, his first as a leader in ten
years. With Anomaly, the pioneering jazz-rock drummer returns to his
roots, blending powerhouse backbeats
and improvisational abandon in
a bold, unapologetically aggressive manner that characterized the early
70s fusion movement.
“We need to restart a revolution so that
we can take back the music and stop the fluff,” says White. “I’m hoping
that this new album is a representation of that ideal.”
Accompanied
by a crew of guitar killers in Jimmy Herring (Widespread Panic), Nick
Moroch (a former member of White’s Astral Pirates), David Gilmore, Tom
Guarna and David Bendeth, keyboardists George Colligan, Bernard Wright,
Donald Blackman (another Astral Pirate ) and Vince Evans and bassists
Victor Bailey, Richie Goods, Charles Fambrough and his RTF bandmate
Stanley Clarke, White unleashes with Zeppelinesque fury on Anomaly, his
tenth overall recording as a leader.
Largely self-taught on
drums, native New Yorker White broke into the jazz world in 1968 with
alto saxophonist Jackie McLean. The following year he participated in
Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, generally regarded as the album that birthed
the fusion movement. He subsequently recorded with a Who’s Who in Jazz,
including trumpeters Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw, tenor saxophonists
Joe Henderson, Gato Barbieri and Stan Getz and renowned
composer-bandleader Gil Evans, among others. As a member of Return To
Forever from 1973 to 1976, White gained a solid reputation as one of the
top fusion drummers of the day. “I'm basically a jazz guy, and that’s
what I grew up playing,” he says. “But when this new thing happened with
jazz-rock through Bitches Brew and bands like Tony Williams Lifetime
and Return To Forever, I found myself on the ground floor of a movement.
And this musical movement co-existed with other forms of music that
came in during the latter part of the 20th century.”
“I was
fortunate when I started to make music,” he continues. “I made music at
the same time that Igor Stravinksy was making music, at the same time
that Jimi Hendrix and James Brown were making music, at the same time
that Duke Ellington and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were making music.
Led Zeppelin co-existed at the same time that Return To Forever did. I
listened to all that music and was influenced by all of it. So now when I
put together an eclectic project I sometimes hear people say, “Oh man,
what is he trying to do” ”But the truth is, I’m not trying to do
anything. I’m just representing the music that I came up listening to.”
Personnel:
Lenny White (Drums); Nick Moroch (Guitar) ; David Gilmore (Guitar); Tom Guarna (Guitar); Jimmy Herring(Guitar); David Bendeth (Guitar); George Colligan (Keyboards); Bernard Wright (Keyboards); Donald Blackman((Keyboards) ); Vince Evans (Keyboards); Victor Bailey (Bass); Richie Goods (Bass); Charles Fambrough (Bass); Stanley Clarke (Bass)
Track Listing:
Track 1 Drum Boogie
Track 2 We Know
Track 3 Forever
Track 4 Drum Moon
Track 5 Gazelle
Track 6 If You Dare
Track 7 Election Day
Track 8 Coming Down
Track 9 Cat Lett Out of the Bag
Track 10 Water Changes Everything
Track 11 Anthem
Track 12 The Wait has lifted the weight
Guitar Player has an interview up with Mike Keneally where he discusses his involvement with drummer Marco Minnemann's Normalizer 2 project.
Guitar Player - Mike Keneally Talks About Normalizer 2: Evidence of Humanity
Two new interviews with Steve Morse have popped up on the radar:
Guitar Messenger - great interview by Ivan Chopik; newly published but conducted this past October. Includes video content and masterclass.
Lick Library - Three-part video interview with Morse, conducted by Stuart Bull.
From the official website of New York's Collective School of Music:
"The Collective School of Music is announcing a special four-class course with world-renowned guitarist, Wayne Krantz. The course, which is open to bassists and well as guitarists, will be based on Krantz’s book, “An Improvisor’s OS”, which lays out his unique approach to improvising. The tuition for the course is $410 and will have a limited enrollment. Classes are scheduled to begin the week of April 12th, and a basic knowledge of chord and chord-scale theory is required. For more information, please contact Admissions Director, John Castellano at: [email protected] "
DBIII European tour - w/ Dennis Chambers and Bobby Sparks (more dates to come)
May 14th Kassel - SchlachthofCongratulations Gill!
From Abstract Logix News:
With his provocative new release 24 Tales (shipping April 14; now available for pre-order), Alex Machacek has
sought an inventive new context for both his incredibly fluid, precise
guitar work and his expanding compositional vision. “I have always liked
drums,” Machacek explains. “On so many fusion and jazz records, there
is an extended drum solo. Maybe other people don’t see it like this, but
I always thought, ‘Hey, that’s also music…’ That’s when I got the idea:
how would it sound if I compose something based on a drum solo?”
Following his first performance with drummer Marco Minnemann, Machacek
was so impressed that he asked Minnemann if he would be interested in
contributing a drum solo for such an experience. “He said that he had a
solo recorded – but it was fifty-one minutes long! At first I thought,
maybe I’ll take a section of it to work with…but eventually I decided to
take on the whole thing.”
Minnemann’s solo – a kaleidoscopic rush of rhythmic, textural, and even
melodic devices, all improvised without a click track – became the
backdrop for 24 Tales.
An astonishingly musical effort, nearly symphonic in its vast range of
timbres, use of space, and elegant sense of structure and development,
24 Tales finds Machacek breaking Minneman’s solo into 24 discrete (but
connected) sections. He then composed music for each section, taking
extra care to make sure the transitions were smooth and musical. From
rapid-fire 13/16 scrambles to resonant, chiming long tones – all the
while colored and propelled by Minnemann’s supple traps – the variety of
timbers and rhythmic feels allows Machacek to explore an enormous range
of guitar tones – often in quick succession, expertly creating and
releasing tension and making for unexpected (and unexpectedly appealing)
contrasts. Warm, classic jazz hollow-body sounds intersect with
frenzied fuzz, acoustic slide, and trebly palm-muted figures, sometimes
playing the same passages in unison to create an entirely new tone.
Born in 1972 and raised in Vienna, Machacek has emerged among the most
riveting guitarists and improvisers of his generation, parlaying his
varied background, influences, and experiences (ranging from extensive
classical and jazz training to stints in rock, pop, and folk outfits)
into a rich, unpredictably personal music. His prior two releases –
[Sic] and Improvisation (both on Abstract Logix) – were widely
acclaimed, and featured Machacek alongside such musicians as Terry
Bozzio, Matthew Garrison, and Jeff Sipe. Upon hearing Machacek’s music,
guitar icon John McLaughlin exclaimed, “Alex Machacek's music starts
where other music ends…so spontaneous. He has done some very deep
excavation in the mind of music." Personnel: Alex Machacek (Guitars and everything else); Marco Minnemann
(Drums); Sumitra (Vocals-1 track); Martin Ptak (Trombone-3 tracks) Track Listing:
1. On Your Marks
2. Sit Back and Chillax
3. Tour De France
4. Dancing with the Baby Bear
5. Anamika
6. Pros and Cons of Depression
7. Little Man
8. Tranquillo
9. Tranquilizer
10. Sweet Torture
11. She Likes It
12. See You There
13. X-Mas
14. Feel Me
15. At the Club
16. Eu De Conlon
17. Doldrums
18. Minnemaus in da House
19. Run, Fusion !
20. Air
21. Sexy
22. Blender
23. Quotes
24. Over and Out
