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6th July 2011

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Rick Stone Trio - Fractals

Rick Stone is a straight ahead jazz guitarist living and working in New York City.  Stone’s newest recording is interesting for a few reasons.  His tone is actually closer to that of the modern generation in that he prefers a dark tone, and uses a minimal amount of vibrato and other inflection.  In fact, if Stone added some reverb and delay, you may mistake him for another guitarist such as Jonathan Kreisberg.  Stone’s lines sound like a combination of Pat Martino and Wes Montgomery, although he has forged a style of his own.  This album includes a strange variety of standards.  The tune “Stella By Starlight” is about as common as it gets.  However, Stone also includes his rendition of Bily Strayhorn’s “Ballad for Very Sad and Very Tired Lotus Eaters”, a tune which has never been widely recorded.  Overall, fans of jazz guitar will probably enjoy this album.  Stone’s modern lyricism makes him easier to than more aggressive players (Adam Rogers for example).  However, he is not as adventurous in his compositions as most modern players have been.  This record is still unmistakably jazz by any standard. 

Rick Stone Trio - Fractals (2011)

Rick Stone (guitar, compositions), Marco Panascia (bass), Tom Pollard (drums)

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