This Sunday Music Muse Day, I'll give you some insight into my method of finding new music. On a current stop into The Bop Shop Records store, I browsed the used CDs, but found nothing to buy, So, I turned to new jazz releases, and this first pick caught my eye, Guitar Solos: Vol. 1 - The Middle of Everywhere, an anthology of alternative guitarists. From the names on the cover, I recognized several, Nguyen Le, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Nels Cline, and Henry Kaiser. This CD was project started during the Covid era by guitarist Joel Harrison, who oddly doesn't have a track on it. It's recording of solos performances share online by guitarists that become The Alternative Guitar Summit, "now in existence for 14 years". I'm not crazy about of all the players, but it's worth a listen to open your ears to new sounds, and players.
Being a lazy reader, it was only after I bought the next selection, Joel Harrison Guitar Talk Vol. 2 -Classic Duos - Jazz Duos, on the recommendation Tom Kohn's (owner of Bop Shop)., that I noticed Harrison was the producer of my first selection. Tom mentioned he know Harrison had him perform for a Bop Shop concert. Two of the guitarists, Fareed Haque, and Nel Cline on the Solos CD, join him on duets on the Vol. 2 . I enjoyed this 2-disc set more than the Solo CD. But, that's just one opinion.
We're having a heatwave here in upstate NY state, that hopefully it will pass soon. Until then, an AC cooled room, a cold drink, and some cool jazz is the order of the day. Peace.
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