Great Guitars Featuring Martin Taylor, Ulf Wakenius, And Howard Alden at PizzaExpress Jazz Club Soho

Combining Martin Taylor’s award-winning virtuosic finger style with Wakenius’ jaw-dropping technique, and Alden’s sparkling originality, each evening features solo, duet and trio performances by three acknowledged masters of the guitar. Together they have worked with artists ranging from Stephane Grappelli and Jamie Cullum to Oscar Peterson and George Van Eps and will present an evening of virtuosity, emotion, humor and musical fireworks.

Pat Metheny calls Martin Taylor “one of the most awesome solo guitar players in the history of the instrument” while Jeff Beck says “he out-shreds all of us….I’ve never seen anything like it”. Top 10 albums in both the USA and Europe, a record 15 British Jazz Awards and an MBE from the Queen of Great Britain have seen Taylor recognized as the world’s foremost exponent of solo fingerstyle jazz guitar playing....

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Combining Martin Taylor’s award-winning virtuosic finger style with Wakenius’ jaw-dropping technique, and Alden’s sparkling originality, each evening features solo, duet and trio performances by three acknowledged masters of the guitar. Together they have worked with artists ranging from Stephane Grappelli and Jamie Cullum to Oscar Peterson and George Van Eps and will present an evening of virtuosity, emotion, humor and musical fireworks.

Pat Metheny calls Martin Taylor “one of the most awesome solo guitar players in the history of the instrument” while Jeff Beck says “he out-shreds all of us….I’ve never seen anything like it”. Top 10 albums in both the USA and Europe, a record 15 British Jazz Awards and an MBE from the Queen of Great Britain have seen Taylor recognized as the world’s foremost exponent of solo fingerstyle jazz guitar playing.

Born in Halmstad, Sweden, Ulf Wakenius is a jazz guitarist extraordinaire acclaimed and celebrated all over the world. Between 1997 and 2007 Ulf held what may have been the most prestigious spot in jazz for a guitarist: a chair in the Oscar Peterson Quartet. Wakenius guitar duo Guitars Unlimited rocked Scandinavia in the early 80s, culminating in the 1985 Melody Grand Prix, which was seen by 600 million viewers, probably the largest audience a jazz guitar duo ever had. The last few years he's been touring the world with the amazing Korean singer Youn Sun Nah.

“He may be the best of his generation,” writes JAZZ TIMES of Howard Alden. And Chip Deffaa of the NEW YORK POST observes that he is “ ...one of the very finest young guitarists working today.” It seems that the only thing regarding Howard Alden on which the critics have debate is whether the remarkable jazz guitarist is one of the best.

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