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Some musicians become synonymous with their instruments: John Coltrane owns the tenor sax; Eddie Van Halen has his Frankenstrat; and it's hard to picture John Popper, lead singer of Blues Traveler, without a harmonica pressed to his lips.Yet Hohner, one of the world's foremost harmonica manu...  

On Uptown, his fifth album as a leader, the impressive 34-year-old tenor saxophonist {Wayne Escoffery employs an old-fashioned soul jazz lineup of sax, Hammond B-3 organ, electric guitar and drums. But don't expect to hear the sort of bluesy "uptown" jams associated with classic soul jazz tenors like Gene Ammons = 3405, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis = 6127 or Stanley Turrentine = 10944. While he's a hard-swinging tenor with a big, warm...  

Coco Montoya (b. Henry Montoya, January 1, 1951 in Santa Monica, California) is a blues guitarist and former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - his career began in the mid-70s with Albert Collins as a drummer. Some good staples on this albumThe Essential Coco MontoyaThe Essential Coco Montoya  

Personnel ← Previous revision Revision as of 19:37, 24 October 2009 Line 38: Line 38: *Hugh McKenna - Electric piano *Hugh McKenna - Electric piano *[[Chris Glen]] - Bass guitar *[[Chris Glen]] - Bass guitar - *Eddie McKenna - Drums + *[[Ted McKenna|Eddie McKenna]] - Drums *Phil Kenzie - Tenor saxophone *Phil Kenzie - Tenor saxophone *Big Bud's...  

I just read a review of Blues Guitar Spotlight from the makers of Learn and Master Guitar, and decided to write a post about it since I know from experience that Legacy Systems (the makers of the courses) always brings out very high quality educational material. They just released a new DVD based lesson package [...]