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Album:  Welcome Winter Artist:  Bryan Lubeck Label:  Vineyard Music Productions Website:  www.bryanlubeck.com Welcome Winter , the latest offering from guitarist Bryan Lubeck is an acoustic assemblage of holiday classics with the title track being an original score composed by him and highlighting his Spanish guitar stylizing. The cozy atmospherics nestle the listener in fireside-imbued warmth, tinted in an amalgam of silky guitar chords and contemporary grooves.  Lubeck redefines each track with reflective musings in his chord patterns and Latin flavored intonations to a pristine finish. His interpretation of "The Christmas Song" is fashioned with breathy woodwind-textured swirls and candlelit guitar riffs, coruscating ethereal terrain.  The jangling beats of "Jingle Bells" stoke the festive flames of his bubbly guitar verses, riffing off the melodic motifs and honing twinkling improvisations.  Lubeck has a penchant to make his notes twinkle and flare...

Album:  Midnight Sun Artist:  Bryan Lubeck Label:  Vineyard Music Productions Website:  www.bryanlubeck.com Midnight Sun is the follow up to bandleader, composer and multi-instrumentalist Bryan Lubeck’s recording Tuscan Sky , featuring a potpourri of musicians who each infuse shards of elegance into the tracks. A confluence of scripted phrases and spontaneous flights, the release demonstrates Lubeck's keen sensibilities as a smooth jazz artist. Best known for injecting a flamenco tint into his music, Lubeck works with a diverse palette that acts as a elixir on the senses.  "If You Only Knew" is trellised in bopping grooves surrounded by fluttering horns and caressing guitar riffs, moving into the title track's succor-rich swells.  The storytelling phrasing of Lubeck's guitar chords ruminates gently across "Sun Dress," immersing the listener in a beachside landscape. Lubeck's meanderings on the guitar emblazon "Till I'm Found" with a re...