Showing posts with label Jon Larsen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jon Larsen. Show all posts

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Jon Larsen, Pascal De Loutchek - The Russian Guitars

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:43
Size: 120,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:20)  1. Moltchanie
(3:25)  2. Pouro Rom
(2:16)  3. Chlepsydre
(4:11)  4. Le Fenêtre de Moscou
(3:53)  5. L'Accordeon
(2:47)  6. Yukon
(2:48)  7. Pascal
(4:10)  8. Olga
(4:03)  9. Jimmy The Kid
(3:32) 10. First Song
(1:59) 11. Dream A Lot
(3:36) 12. Guitaresque
(2:50) 13. Out Of The Blue
(3:32) 14. Quiet Evening
(3:05) 15. Parapluie A Moscou
(3:08) 16. Beltz

Jon Larsen (born 7 January 1959) is a gypsy jazz guitarist, record producer, painter, and amateur scientific researcher. He is the founder of the group Hot Club de Norvège. In 2007 he received the Buddy Award for his lifelong contribution to jazz. When he was in his early teens, he learned rock and soul songs on an acoustic steel-string guitar. Through friends, he learned about blues, jazz, flamenco, and classical guitar. After he heard "Tears" by Django Reinhardt on the radio, he decided that this is how he wanted his guitar to sound. At seventeen he formed a string trio and had his first professional job.  In the 1970s, Larsen worked mainly as a painter. He started the Hot Club de Norvege in 1980 with guitarists Per Frydenlund and bassist Svein Aarbostad. They had a hit record when they performed with pop singer Lillebjørn Nilsen. Larsen started the label Zonic Entertainment to record musicians who have been influenced by Frank Zappa. He has worked with Chet Baker, Philip Catherine, Stéphane Grappelli, Warne Marsh, Biréli Lagrène, Babik Reinhardt and Jimmy Rosenberg. He has produced more than 450 jazz records for the label he founded, Hot Club Records. He has led a group of musicians who played with Zappa, including Arthur Barrow, Jimmy Carl Black, Bruce Fowler, Bunk Gardner, Tommy Mars, and Don Preston. They recorded the album Strange News from Mars. Symphonic Django was released in 2008 by Storm Films, which also produced a documentary about Larsen and guitar virtuoso Jimmy Rosenberg titled Jon & Jimmy. In 2012, the documentary won the Dutch Edison Award.  After eight years of research, his book on cosmic dust in urban environments  In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micro-Meteorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters  was published in 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Larsen

The Russian Guitars

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Jon Larsen feat. Biel Ballester - Short Stories From Catalonia

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:53
Size: 82,7 MB
Art: Front

(1:54)  1. Rupit
(2:09)  2. L'Ascensor
(2:43)  3. Els Quatre Gats
(2:03)  4. Anna de Codorniu
(2:27)  5. La Masia
(2:25)  6. Set Portes
(2:59)  7. Rosalert
(1:52)  8. Montserrat
(2:17)  9. El Velero
(2:34) 10. Bar Pastis
(2:59) 11. Adios Marcelo
(1:45) 12. Els Joglars
(3:29) 13. Musique Noir
(4:09) 14. Bielball

Jon Larsen Quartet presents the new guitar talent from SpainBiel Ballester in this hard swinging homage to Biel's hometown Barcelona. The music composed by guitarist Jon Larsen is in a 'Django-goes-mainstream' style. Back in the 70's Larsen who is also founder of the Hot Club label studied painting in Barcelona And this CD is dedicated to his m'stro; Salvador Dalf!  
http://www.systemrecords.co.uk/larsen-short-stories-from-catalonia-p-912749.html

Personnel: Jon Larsen, guitar; Biel Ballester, guitar; Svein Aarbostad, bass; Hakon Mjaset Johansen, drums; Special Guest: Eywind Olsen Wahlen, drums