Jimmy Bruno
Solo
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His skills will send young guitarists to the woodshed and cause older ones to consider hanging up the ax forever - Bruno's that frustratingly great. His flights off the melodies of Ellington's "Satin Doll," Rodgers and Hart's "Have You Met Miss Jones?" and just about every other tune on this standards-heavy disc sound effortlessly conceived, as if he just can't help devising unique twists for these fusty changes. The way he can daisy chain quirkily voiced chords and ascend toward ecstasy only to climb back down on a simple, quarter-note run never gets old, even though he does it over and over again
Russell Carlson / JazzTimes
Anything Jimmy plays is of enormous interest and enjoyment to guitarists everywhere. This time he's given us a collection of solos pieces, his first, which demonstrate his ability to turn the guitar into a mini-orchestra. For years Jimmy has been one of the instrument's leading players and now treats to another side of his artistry while carrying the venerable tradition of unaccompanied jazz guitar into the 21st Century.
Wolf Marshall
Jazz guitarists just don't come any better. Jimmy Bruno combines a dazzling virtuoso technique with drive and swing to produce, in concert and on record, superb and inspired lyrical improvisations.
Maurice J. Summerfield
This Jimmy Bruno Solo CD should be in the collection of every guitarist, student guitarist and lovers of guitar music. His musical concepts and flawless execution is a never ending source of amazement.
Johnny Smith
You couldn't say Jimmy Bruno is Grand or Great...He's all those. He is Tops!
Hank Garland
This Jimmy Bruno Solo CD should be in the collection of every guitarist, student guitarist and lovers of guitar music. His musical concepts and flawless execution is a never ending source of amazement.
Johnny Smith
Anything Jimmy plays is of enormous interest and enjoyment to guitarists everywhere. This time he's given us a collection of solos pieces, his first, which demonstrate his ability to turn the guitar into a mini-orchestra. For years Jimmy has been one of the instrument's leading players and now treats to another side of his artistry while carrying the venerable tradition of unaccompanied jazz guitar into the 21st Century.
Wolf Marshall
Jazz guitarists just don't come any better. Jimmy Bruno combines a dazzling virtuoso technique with drive and swing to produce, in concert and on record, superb and inspired lyrical improvisations.
Maurice J. Summerfield
The Jazz Guitar - Its Evolution, Players and Personalities since 1900
Solo wizardry by the heir apparent to Joe Pass. These unaccompanied renditions of familiar jazz standards carry Bruno's signatures of taste and burn. Each is imbued with a sense of harmonic invention, impeccable time, hard-driving swing factor and a daredevil spirit of improvisation, all of which is virtually impossible to pull off when you're juggling bass lines, chords and melodies at the same time. But Jimmy is more than up to the challenge as he exhibits dazzling virtuosity on each track.
Bill Milkowski
2004 Jazz Writer of the Year / Jazz Journalists Association