Adam Rogers Soloing

Adam Rogers, who like Wayne Krantz toured with Chris Potter, is featured on this video while touring in Mexico with the late great Michael Brecker.  Observe Adam’s picking hand.  Despite his unorthodox position, I guess he made it work for him.

Listen to Adam’s smooth flowing lines that sound legato despite all that picking.   I don’t think I’m going to change my picking style because of this though.  I simply can’t play the guitar that way.

Here’s another one of Adam’s videos, this time apparently taken by someone in the audience.  Dang, those are lines I’d like to play.  They sound sophisticated, intelligent and scholastic in a positive way.  Anyway, this is a song called “Phyrigia.”

If you can’t get enough of Mr. Rogers’ post bop music — I want to listen to more — you can listen to his concert at the Village Vanguard in New York here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89621136.

When you get there (after reading the article, I presume), click on the link that says:  Adam Rogers Quintet in Concert.  It’s beside the red icon depicting a loudspeaker.  You won’t miss it.

Finally, here’s his Web site:

http://www.adamrogersmusic.com/live/. 

Wayne Krantz Live

Here’s Wayne Krantz playing the song “Is Something I Don’t Understand Yet” with Lincoln Goines on bass and Zach Danziger on drums in Leverkusen, Germany, way back in 1993.

Check out this funky piece. 

Here’s another video, this time with Chris Potter’s band.  Check out Wayne’s lines here.  He really takes it way out there, and as such, I guess it’s going to take some time before I figure out what he’s doing.  Ugh!