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Trumix.com listings available of Plectrum Podcasts Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Fifteenth Plectrum Podcast - Fusion by Larry Carlton Larry Carlton is a jazz guitarist dividing his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with more popular bands. Over his career Carlton has won three Grammys for his performances and compositions. His influences are the likes of Barney Kessel and BB.King (that's a pure jazz guitarist and a pure Blues guitarist) - which explains his versatility. He also replaced Lee Ritenour when he left the band Fourplay. For me Carlton is in the same league as Larry Coryell and Lee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fourth Plectrum Podcast - The romantic guitar of Earl Klugh. Welcome back to my Plectrum Podcasts. Its time to hear some jazzy though romantic guitar music. This podcast is dedicated to Earl Klugh. Earl was born in 16th September 1954, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. He insists that he does not consider himself a jazz player and thinks of Chet Atkins as being his most important influence. I do not totally agree with this statement because I believe that his music is actually jazzy but who am I to disagree on his own idea about his music! I must say that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thirteenth Plectrum Podcast - Passion Grace and Fire Paco de Lucia is that great musician/composer from Spain who pioneered the New Flamenco style. He is featured in one of my first podcasts. Add to him Al Di Meola, the American of Italian descent, who plays the guitar so masterly, and to these two add again the great John McLaughlin, for whom I shall dedicate a podcast soon....and what have you got?...A super guitar trio who can produce music that's out of this world! My best guitar heroes all playing together - what can one want more! This ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sixteenth Plectrum Podcast - Erik Wollo Erik Wøllo is a Norwegian guitarist. He might not be known as much as his Anglo-Saxon counterparts such as Tommy Emmanuel or Earl Klugh but his music is still very interesting. In his official website it is stated that his music covers a wide range including Jazz and Rock but I would say that his music is mostly meditative or atmospheric. If you want something to help you meditate or relax you can certainly find many of his tracks that will suit this purpose. Some critics also categorise h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fourteenth Plectrum Podcast - Pat Metheny Do you remember the film The Falcon and The Snowman? There was a song from its soundtrack - This is not America - sung by David Bowie accompanied by none other than this jazz guitarist - and he even co-composed the song [actually he composed the rest of the soundtrack all on his own].Sometimes you won't even know that its a guitar you are listening to when he plays. In fact Metheny is fond of using what's known as a guitar synthesiser with his guitar. It's a gadget that makes the guitar sou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twelfth Plectrum Podcast - The smooth guitar of Lee Ritenour Born in the USA (born January 11,1952) as Lee Mack Ritenour. He is also affectionately called "Captain Fingers" due to his mastery of the guitar he plays. For me this guitarist is a genius that sometimes does really silly career moves! I mean with his talent why delve into pop or electronic music?!! In fact Lee has frequently been criticised by his fans for these moves he sometimes makes. I don't believe it is because in pop one makes more money because if I had to ask any pop fan who Lee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My First Podcast - Selected Tracks from Acoustic Dream by Acoustika This is my first podcast so please be gentle on me - I know I was rather shakey with the voice recording and I am sure my English pronounciation is not perfect...But I wanted it to be understood by all that's why I used English. I could have done it in Maltese but then only Maltese people would understand it - and that's not much isn't it - there are only 400,000 of us in Malta!Anyway - I hope you enjoy this week's selection. I took the opportunity to publicise Acoustika, my trio and our CD ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Second Plectrum Podcast - Al Di Meola - One of my guitar heroes. Welcome back for my second podcast. This one is much better I believe as I used an external microphone for the voice recording and its much clearer.Well this time I wanted to introduce to some of you at least, the talents of Al Di Meola. He's American born but has Italian roots, which probably explains why two of his collaborations are with Italian artitsts. His style is very versatile and quite difficult to describe. It verges from Jazz to Latin / Spanish though describing it as Latin Jazz ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Plectrum Podcast - The Great Paco De Lucia Hi whoever you are who reads this:) I am dedicating my third podcast to the guitar giant Paco De Lucia. He was born in Algeciras in Spain as Francisco Sanchez Gomez. He took De Lucia as his stage name as a tribute to his Mother, ie, Lucia Sanchez Gomez. Click [HERE] for his biography.I was first introduced to Paco's music through his album Sextet - One Summer Night. Unfortunately I only have a vinyl copy of the album...but I do have another Sextet album, the more recent Sextet Live in Ameri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fifth Plectrum Podcast - World music by Jesse Cook I only recently discovered this musician actually, and it was such a pleasant surprise because first of all I would have never expected this style of music from a Canadian musician and secondly because it is of such a high standard. I do believe in fact that Jesse can do with some more publicity!Well Jesse Cook's music is predominantly Spanish. [Wikipedia describes his music as New Flamenco but I beg to disagree and call it World Music], most of the time sounding much like The Gypsy Kings ( ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eleventh Plectrum Podcast - The unique style of Larry Coryell I was introduced to the music of Larry Coryell accidentally many years ago (when CD's were not even heard of yet) while I was rummaging through vinyl disks at a music shop. I had this habit of looking for unusual, unknown or rather old music because I was, and still am, very curious. I wanted to know what is being done by non commercial musicians and what had been done in the past. That's how I came to know of Larry Coryell. I found this album, heard a track or two as samples and bought it. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tenth Plectrum Podcast - Vicente Amigo Vicente Amigo is another Paco De Lucia disciple. As you can see this Paco really had an influence on music! The pity is that locally (in Malta) it is very difficult to find Vicente's music and very few in fact ever heard of him. I only have one CD called Vivencias Imaginadas and all three tracks in today's podcast are in fact from this CD. It is one of his best albums anyway so it is still a very good selection. I think that Vicente Amigo is the most adventurous from the three De Lucia disc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ninth Plectrum Podcast - The little tomato, Tomatito Tomatito was discovered and mentored by the great Paco De Lucia and one can immediately sense Paco's influence in Tomatito's music although he has also evolved a style of his own. That's the tradmark of an artist. A real artist has influences but always develops a unique style. Sometimes I prefer Tomatito to Paco simply because Tomatito's music is rather more expressive than agressive (as expected from flamenco). In fact most of Tomatito's songs are rather romantic. I was lucky to see Tomat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Taylor - The British finger picker Martin Taylor, just like Earl Klugh and Tommy Emmanuel is the type of Jazz guitarist that can play the melody (solo), chords and bassline all at one go. One-man-band style I mean! And just like Tommy Emmanuel he is self taught! Amazing isn't it? Imagine being able to teach yourself the guitar without taking any lessons, and then making a career out of playing what you taught yourself, touring the world and winning awards too. That's our Martin Taylor.The only thing that's maybe on the minus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seventh Plectrum Podcast - Mike Stern's fusion guitar. Mike Stern is another master guitarist, this time in the realm of Fusion. Fusion is another word for Jazz/Rock actually but Mike Stern's music does not always strictly adhere to this catagory neither.By the way, Stern visited Malta some time ago and played at the Malta Jazz Festival held every July, but sadly I was not present there and missed a great show.Mike Stern started off playing withBlood Sweat and Tears- an early 70's Jazz Rock band and then moved on to join the likes of the renown ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sixth Plectrum Podcast - Tommy Emmanuel - the guitar virtuoso from Down Under He's another finger-picking virtuoso that leaves me with my mouth opened when I listen to his music. What he does with the guitar is unimaginable. To top it all he is even such a good showman and manages to make the audience laugh while he plays. How I wish I could see him play live. Tommy Emmanuel is in a class of his own. He started playing with his family band at the tender age of 4! I used to think that I started playing early (in local restaurants that is) at the age of 14! Amazingly, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Check this out II Well the same person that used Acoustic Dream in his podcast (the American chap) has now used the other track I put on offer, ie, Viva Malta.I have taken the liberty to edit it to keep just the part relevant to my trio for you to listen to by clicking the title of this podcast.RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PlectrumPodcasts PLECTRUM Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website