#111 in The Need To Know Badass Blues Instrumentals Series, The Big Sleep, features the no net, high wire guitar playing of Nguyên Lê. Born in Paris in the late 1950's, Nguyên is of Vietnamese descent and has maintained a deep connection to that ancestry. All About Jazz magazine eloquently and accurately states: "few musicians embody the word "fusion" more than Parisian-born guitarist Nguyên Lê. For the past 25 years he's been mining a combination of fusion by the more conventional definition—the infusion of rock energy into the jazz sphere—with fusion in a broader sense, the seamless integration of music from cultures around the world." Nguyên has made seventeen albums as a leader and as even more as a sideman or producer. The list of his collaborators is incredibly diverse and impressive, including; Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Johnny Griffin, Toots Thielemans, Gil Evans, Me'shell Ndegeocello, John McLaughlin, and Ornette Coleman. Enjoy!
The backing band on this track is Rich Kirch (John Lee Hooker 1984-2001) on rhythm guitar, Alvino Bennett (Dave Mason, Stevie Wonder) on drums and myself on bass. The track was recorded at Skunkworks in Capitola CA with additional tracking at Big Rock Studio, Lyon, France. Mixing and Mastering duties were handled by the infamous F-Bomb.
The backing band on this track is Rich Kirch (John Lee Hooker 1984-2001) on rhythm guitar, Alvino Bennett (Dave Mason, Stevie Wonder) on drums and myself on bass. The track was recorded at Skunkworks in Capitola CA with additional tracking at Big Rock Studio, Lyon, France. Mixing and Mastering duties were handled by the infamous F-Bomb.
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