Guitarist Denis Sung-hoâ¢s Search for Self Music
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- Guitarist Denis Sung-hoâ¢s Search for Self Music
- MUSIC SCENE: Los Straitjackets a proud throwback
- Martin History Revisited
- Music Review | Bad Plus; Benevento-Mathis-Barr Trio
- Who’s playing music and where in and around town this week
Guitarist Denis Sung-hoâ¢s Search for Self Music
Korea Times
There is also an extraordinary number of young talented artists” he said. Ever since visiting Korea for the first time as an adult in 2006 he has returned numerous times for concerts and masterclasses. “The guitar was popular in the 1960s but it went down. Now it’s coming back” he said. nly recently have classical guitar recordings begun to resurface such as those by Kaori Muraji and Sharon Isbin. What lies ahead? “It depends on the time of the day.
MUSIC SCENE: Los Straitjackets a proud throwback
The Patriot Ledger
MILLERFor The Patriot LedgerPosted May 15 2009 @ 07:15 AM Most of rock ’n’ roll boils down to wailing electric guitars but these days the venerable genre of guitar rock instrumentals makes up a tiny cadre of loyalists. Where once virtuosos like Duane Eddy The Ventures Link Wray and Quincy Point’s own favorite son Dick Dale could be found among the best-selling top forty charts these days your guitarslingers are more likely to be slotted among blues jazz or even folk genres and the ranks of pure instrumentalists are pretty slim. But Los Straitjackets are a proud throwback even as they continue to turn out rip-roaring contemporary rock of their own. The quartet–who are not Mexican but are famed for performing in classic Mexican wrestling masks–has just released its 16th album “The Further Adventures of Los Straitjackets” on Yep Roc.
Martin History Revisited
Acoustic Guitar
A craze for Hawaiian music swept the nation in 1915 and it proved to be Frank Henry’s ticket out of stagnation but he still needed help in catching the wave. Starting in 1916 Martin began making steel-string guitars for Hawaiian-style playing but the first of these new models were sold under other brand names not as Martins. Guitars made of Hawaiian koa with koa tops were made for the Southern California Music store chain while three sizes of an odd wide-waisted guitar shape also intended for Hawaiian-style playing were made for the Ditson stores in New York and Boston. (The worst-selling Ditson model was an oversized behemoth called the Dreadnought which would become Martin’s signature body shape decades later. ) Around the same time Martin introduced a line of ukuleles and a new flat-back style mandolin that was far easier to build than the earlier bowlback style. The little ukes and plainer mandolin models were cheaper than a guitar with similar appointments but the large numbers sold more than made up the difference. In 1920 for instance the company sold about 1500 mandolins and more than 3000 ukuleles a year in which its mandolin sales alone exceeded the sales of Martin guitars.
Music Review | Bad Plus; Benevento-Mathis-Barr Trio
New York Times
The music often came across as twitchy but regal and deeply serious. Genre was the least interesting handle on it.
Who’s playing music and where in and around town this week
Philadelphia Inquirer
Add the greasy Southern Culture and the guitar tremors should be seismic. World Cafe Live 3025 Walnut St.
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