Word: pizzarelli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vaux: I like music that everyone else hates, like Journey, Chicago, Yes, and King Crimson. Among the new bands, I really like Jamiroquai. I also listen to a lot of jazz guitar (George Benson, John Pizzarelli) and Armenian folk music...
...John Pizzarelli is more than just an uncannily charming singer. He also plays a hard-charging brand of jazz guitar learned from his father Bucky, a veteran of the Big Band era. On Contrasts, dad and son team up for a dapper program of seven-string-guitar duets (the added bass strings make for an orchestral richness of texture). The bill of fare ranges from high-class standards like The Bad and the Beautiful to such sophisticated novelties as Joe Mooney's Phantasmagoria; the playing is crisp, witty and swings like...
...JOHN PIZZARELLI: ALL OF ME (Novus/RCA). Smooth, well-groomed versions of standards, with Pizzarelli (son of sure-handed jazz guitarist Bucky) providing some nimble chording and easygoing vocals. He sings a little like a Sesame Street Chet Baker, but his gently swinging ways still send tunes like the title track out under full sail...