Album Review: Standing Eight from Jeremy Green

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Album:  Standing Eight
Artist/:  Jeremy Green
Label:  Self-Released
Website:  https://jeremygreenguitar.com

Standing Eight, the latest CD from guitarist Jeremy Green is an 8-song recording that fuses funk with  blues rock, adult pop,  and  jazz.  The release showcases an assortment of illustrious performers from the rock, pop and jazz worlds including Jimmy Haslip and Billy Sheehan on bass and Mike Stern on guitar.  With all songs written by Green, the tracks are a collaborative effort with band members, adding their input to the arrangement.

The laid back vibe of "Michael and Me" has a vintage '70s sheen in its blues rock grooves that transition into a repetitive funk pop pulse along "The Land of Oz."  The guitar licks play a prominent role in the tracks, shaping and defining the melodic progressions.  Reverberating effects echo across "Big Shoes," giving the track an abstract sonorous while laden with a rhythmic pattern that brandishes an earthy pounding.

The guitars howl with a hard rock roar through "Mr. Beast" and intermittently subside to a balmy billow, as the diverse chord dynamics give the track dimension.  "Car Rock" is straddled by a pulsating bass line and fiery guitar licks.  Driving the track is the various turns and twists designed into the chord patterns, roaring, streaking, blazing, and, cruising, continually mutating and morphing.

Honing his talent  by performing in small clubs across Southern Ontario, Canada, Jeremy Green shows an affinity for jazz fusion, blending elements of blues, rock, pop, and funk into his collection of original  material.  In the ilk of acclaimed guitarists like Jeff Beck, Allan Holdsworth, and Eddie Van Halen, Green creates stimulating guitar licks that astound the imagination.

Musicians:
Jeremy Green - guitar
Robben Ford - guitar
Mike Stern - guitar
Oz Noy - guitar
Michel Cusson - guitar
Billy Sheehan - bass
Victor Wooten - bass
Rich Brown - bass
Ian DeSouza - bass
Moto Fukushima - bass
Will Lee - bass
Jimmy Haslip - bass
Tim LeFebvre - bass
Chase Baird - saxophone
Mark Levron - trumpet
Keith Carlock - drums

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