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Ahmad Mansour : Short Cuts
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Groove based melodic contemporary jazz guitar music.
Genre: Jazz: Acid Jazz
Release Date: 2004
Short Cuts
Ahmad Mansour
Record Label: open sky
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2. Common Ground 4:07 + MP3 $0.99
3. Hindsight 5:34 + MP3 $0.99
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5. Main Squeeze 4:54 + MP3 $0.99
6. Chill 4:08 + MP3 $0.99
7. Glitch 4:58 + MP3 $0.99
8. Egress 4:27 + MP3 $0.99
9. Foray 3:27 + MP3 $0.99
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Album Notes

AHMAD MANSOUR guitar, compositions

TERJE GEWELT bass

ERIK SMITH drums

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"One of the most tasteful electric guitar players on the planet; a great album first note to last, no weak tunes, awesome bass & drums support."


Iranian-American guitarist and composer Ahmad Mansour has been active on the New York and European music scenes for over two decades, performing and recording with players such as Marc Copland, John Taylor, George Mraz or Marc Johnson and countless younger talents, with CD releases spanning the gamut of modern Jazz guitar styles.

This new trio takes the concepts heard on it's last Resonant Music release, Nightlight (2002), to new levels of energy and adventurous exploration . At the crossroads of many styles of contemporary music, the focus is on improvisation, exciting group interplay and accessible yet varied compositions. With the addition of carefully chosen analog sounds and effects to enhance the wide open "ambient groove" soundscapes, this music defies categorization.

Terje Gewelt, first call Scandinavian acoustic and electric bassist, has been working with Ahmad Mansour since their Berklee years in the early eighties. Aside from being a student of Jaco Pastorius and Dave Holland, he has been featured on more than fifty recordings by artists as diverse as Billy Cobham, Andy Summers or Dave Liebman, to ECM releases by Misha Alperin with Jon Christensen. Erik Smith is a versatile and virtuoso drummer from Oslo.

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REVIEWS

great record, real suspense, power, superb technique!
author: Karl-Heinz Dicht , Graz, Austria
                            
a great record, real suspense, power, nice musical approach, intelligent arrangements, superb technique!
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Hip grooves that bust out of modern jazz.
author: Wanjoo Kim
                            
A fantastic coming together of hip accessible beats and profoundly rich themes and flavors. Loved the middle eastern undertones in some of the ballads and the funky funk of modern modern jazz. Buy this album. You will not regret it.
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author: Björn Olav Nordahl, Oslo, Norway
                            
When Mansour concentrates on his own concept, as he does on this release, the music becomes outstanding, actually worldclass.
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author: Tor Hammero, PULS
                            
- On the groovy and playful CD "Short Cuts", guitarist Ahmad Mansour displays enormous technique, but doesn't let it get in the way of creating meaningful music. -PULS, Norway
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