Artist: The Wide Hive Players
Album: Players II Guitar
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Soul Jazz, Contemporary Jazz
Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2010
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- Luminous Life (For Tim Hyland) Featuring – Barry Finnerty
- Preachers Pistol Featuring – Harvey Mandel
- Find A Way Featuring – Calvin Keys
- Sworn Statement Featuring – Larry Coryell
- Jackal Chatter Featuring – Harvey Mandel
- The Paladin Featuring – Barry Finnerty, Luke Westbrook
- Sky Switch Featuring – Barry Finnerty
- Gettin' Back Featuring – Calvin Keys
- Call To Retreat Featuring – Barry Finnerty
- Song For Snake Featuring – Harvey Mandel
- Chase Through Grey Room Featuring – Barry Finnerty
- Be Careful What You Wish For Featuring – Calvin Keys
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- Personnel:
- Doug Rowan - saxophone
- Gregory Howe - label owner/ engineer
- Matt Montgomery - keyboard/ bass
- Tim Hyland - trumpet
- Mike Rinta - trombone
- Big Thomas McCree - drums/ organ
- Luke Westbrook - bass
- Larry Coryell, Harvey Mandel, Barry Finnerty, Calvin Keys - guitar
Released in 2010, Players II Guitar features fretboard legends Larry Coryell, Harvey Mandel, Barry Finnerty, and Calvin Keys backed by the Wide Hive Players, a well-oiled West Coast jazz machine coordinated by producer, mixer, and composer Gregory Howe. The group, which includes trombonist Mike Rinta, saxophonist Doug Rowan, guitarist Luke Westbrook, drummer Thomas McCree and bassist-keyboardist Matt Montgomery, provides exceptionally strong support for the legendary guitarists whose collective recording history touches upon Charles Mingus, Canned Heat, Ray Charles, the Crusaders, Chico Hamilton, and the Rolling Stones. Packed with attractive and easy-to-move-to funk, rock, and soul-jazz grooves, Players II Guitar paved the way for a comparably enjoyable Wide Hive Players recording with Coryell as featured artist. Like much of the Wide Hive catalog, this album illustrates in bold colors just how diverse and rewarding California's Bay Area music scene has become since the beginning of the 21st century. Genre distinctions blur and morph as the work becomes mainly about how everybody feels rather than the surface tension maintained by marketing categories.