Monthly Archives: January 2003
Django Reinhardt
A favorite photograph of Django Reinhardt pictures him standing alongside Stéphane Grappelli, the duo looking suave and sophisticated in white tuxedos. The photograph...
Tim Sparks – One String Leads to Another and Neshamah
Tim Sparks is not a mere guitarist; he's a musician. In fact, at times on these two new releases, he seems to transcend...
Gibson Super Goldtone GA-30RV
Gibson returned to the ampli-fier business in the late '90s with its Goldtone amps, de-rived from the '50s-era Trace Elliot/Vellocette line. The original...
Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler
In the late '60s, in Birm-ingham, England, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler, vocalist Ozzy Osbourne and drummer Bill Ward first united as a...
Johnny A. – Sometime Tuesday Morning
I say it three or four times a year. Every so often, a CD arrives from an artist I've never heard of, and...
Gibson’s First Cherry Red 335
Gibson introduced the ES-335T in the spring of 1958 as the progenitor to its double-cutaway,semi-hollow body "thinline" series of guitars. Characterized by the...
Kid Ramos – Kid Ramos
If you can call his ongoing stint with the Fabulous Thunderbirds "woodshedding," then guitarist David "Kid" Ramos has definitely paid his dues. He...
Rodney Jones – Soul Manifesto
Okay, it's not like Rodney Jones doesn't have the pedigree. He spent lots of time on the road with Maceo Parker, so it's...
Pierre Bensusan – Intuite
There are guitarists, and then there are guitarists' guitarists. Pierre Benusan is the sort of musician who inspires awe among even other musical...
Kenny Burrell/Gil Evans – Guitar Forms
If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. One of the great things about CDs is great albums have become...