Pat Metheny is a magnificent musician who just happened to make his fame by playing a rousing Jazz guitar. Metheny’s long career in Jazz has been vibrant and punching. He always takes you on a rapid, breathless, journey and then plunks you back to earth. Metheny’s new album — What’s It All About — dropped today, and the album consists of a curious, non-Jazzy, covers of several classics.
Derek Trucks is a guitar player in the Allman Brothers Band with Warren Haynes. Derek is also the nephew of Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks. Derek Trucks is a SuperGenius musician. Hey may not have an effervescent facial expression on stage, but his magnificent fingers prove the magic and the methodology of his work. Derek is married to singer Susan Tedeschi and, together, they have formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band and their first album released dropped yesterday: Revelator.
Eddie Lang is the greatest Jazz guitar player you have probably never heard of before today. Eddie Lang died in 1933 at the age of 30 after a botched tonsillectomy that Bing Crosby urged him to have so Eddie could have speaking roles, in addition to playing the guitar, in Bing’s movies. Today, a new Eddie Lang album dropped — The Father of Jazz Guitar — and it is a delightful experience to hear Eddie’s archtop guitar sound so round and rich and full and warm 80 years after he first recorded the songs.
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The great SuperGenius Howard Stein and I were recently discussing the writing process when I reminded him of his unforgettable advice to writers — found in the Secret of Good Writing — and we both shared a laugh. Then, Howard told me a story about Jerzy Kosinski and writing.
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There is nothing quite like discovering the SuperGenius mind exposed in action. Today, I introduce you to Tim Wheatley — a student at University College Falmouth studying Digital Animation — and his Amazing, real life, Cyclotrope!
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