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Modern Guitar Super Summit: Bill Frisell, Nels Cline, Marc Ribot
Three of the most prominent modern guitarists in the world got together on June 11, 2013 at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City. Fortunately someone captured it on video.
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Modern Guitar Month in Manhattan
It pains me that I won’t be able to make it to NY for this but any fans of modern guitar living in or around the city should be be in heaven (Thanks to Downtown Music Gallery for the listings): The...
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Bill Frisell Documentary
Australian documentarian Emma Franz is making what looks to be a great film about seminal modern guitarist Bill Frisell. I contributed to the IndieGoGo campaign to help her finish and I highly...
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Spotlight: Charlie Rauh
Much modern guitar focuses on atonality and noise. More rare is the forward thinking guitarist whose approach leans towards the seductive rather than the assaultive. Though fully capable of aggressive...
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Review: Mastery Bridge
As I described in my post on the Jazzmaster, the original Jazzmaster bridge is problematic in a number of ways: often buzzing and failing to retain the strings seated in their saddles when any heavy...
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Guitar Moderne Festival VII
Summer is Festival time. The United States offers huge gatherings featuring classic rock acts cashing in on their legacy, hip bands doing reunion tours featuring their one record that sold, baby bands...
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Guitar Moderne Record Picks
This will be a periodic new offering from Guitar Moderne: an entirely subjective listing of recordings that come to my attention that are momentous enough to make sure they come to yours. These are not...
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Roots Moderne: Sleep Gunner
I am not sure how I discovered these guys, but somehow I found You Tube videos of Jeroen Kimman and Mark Morse mangling Ira and Charlie Louvin songs in the most creative, anarchic, and yet respectful...
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Spotlight: Dan Phelps
Seattle guitarist Dan Phelps’ recorded output is minimal but choice. Modular, a record with the sometime Bill Frisell rhythm section of Viktor Krauss (bass) and drummer Matt Chamberlain is a feast of...
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Guitar Moderne Top Records 2014
You may notice some labels making recurrent and multiple appearances on this list and from year to year. These labels have become successful, forward thinking purveyors of boundary stretching music, so...
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Happy Birthday John Abercrombie
The eldest of the quintet of guitarists who ushered in the golden age of modern jazz guitar (with Frisell, Metheny, Stern, and Scofield), John Abercrombie has maintained the lowest profile of the...
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Bill Frisell Festival
For the holidays Guitar Moderne brings you a Bill Frisell festival. Here is Frisell past, present, and always looking to the future. Enjoy! Reunited with original Bill Frisell Band member Hank Roberts...
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Spotlight: Tim Brady Part I
In February of 2019, I was flown up to Montreal to cover composer/guitarist Tim Brady’s evening of 150 guitars for Guitar Player. You can read my coverage and interview about that here and see a sample...
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Guitar Moderne Top 10 Records Of 2019
Despite an increasing number of great recordings coming over my transom, three guitarists, Anthony Pirog, David Torn, and Mike Baggetta, dominated this year’s picks with two records each. In addition...
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Guitar Moderne Festival XX
Summer festival season will be here before you know it. Hopefully we will be virus-free by then and you can enjoy the outdoors in the company of like-minded music fans. Either way, you can count on...
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Danny Barnes’ How to Make Money In Music
Danny Barnes is an American banjo player, singer, and composer. He was a founding member of the Bad Livers. As a solo artist, he has collaborated with Bill Frisell, Dave Matthews, and others. He has...
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Henry Kaiser, Mike Baggetta and the New “Live”
Henry Kaiser has been offering a series of weekly, solo, “live” performances” through Cuneiform Records. Mike Baggetta has posted a video of his band MSSV also performing “live.” Here, Henry talks...
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PLUS PEDAL vs SUPEREGO+
A few years ago, a new effects company from Latvia debuted the Plus Pedal at NAMM. It seemed to create a similar effect to the Electro-Harmonix Superego pedal. If you have been wondering about how the...
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The Bill Frisell Interview
As promised, modern guitarist legend Bill Frisell and I discuss his new Record “Valentine,” Covid brain, and playing live with no audience. We also compare Jazzmasters.
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Great Site For Classic Modern Guitar Videos
I believe BibiAudiofil2 was gone from YouTube for a while but now is back. He is a Romanian music fan who has somehow amassed the most amazing collection of modern music videos I I have ever seen. For...
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