This Is Book's Music

Good jazz guitarists are a dime a dozen, which means they are plentiful and you either stay away or look for more. If you want a guitarist that is not only good, but quite exceptional, I’d like to recommend Dan Adler. His style of electric guitar playing has a level of finesse that shows his expertise, but he doesn’t bombard the senses by showing off or going for overkill. Back To The Bridge (self-released) is for those who want to hear a guitarist just do his guitar duty, and make beautiful music, as he does on this 10-track album featuring Joey DeFrancesco on the Hammond B-3 and Byron Landham on drums.

The jazz here is pretty straight forward, nothing too hectic but far from being ordinary or automatic. Along with a nice selection of original compositions, he also takes on Clifford Brown‘s”Joy Spring” and Oscar Peterson‘s “The Smudge”, and anytime you have DeFrancesco in the studio, you can’t help but stop and be amazed by his playing. Landham drumming is powerful too, knowing when to accompany and when to give it his all at the appropriate moments, and it’s that chemistry they all have, along with an appreciate for their music, that makes this work so well.