Album Notes

Reviews of Steve's CD About Time Review, January 02 Issue Vintage Guitar Magazine Yikes! Talk about your chops, Steve Trovato's got 'em. Known best on the West Coast as an instructor (Studio Jazz Guitar at USC) and for his work on movie and TV themes, Trovato can certainly play jazz But don't let the "J" word fool you; here he proves himself more than adept at pretty much anything you can think of. For instance, if you like wild boogie with nasty, elastic guitar in the style of Danny Gatton, look no further than "D.G.'s Boogie." It's a great instrumental opener? and it's only the beginning. "Knock, Knock, Knock" is a lightly swinging blues that lets Steve show how skillful he is at soloing around changes. The Django-esque "Dark Eyes" is next. "Squawkin'" is Tele heaven and covers a lot of ground, from typical country twang to a big fat, almost Gibson-esque, country sound, to some Travis-style picking, and ? for good measure ? some Jimmy Bryant-sounding soloing to wrap things up. It's the kind of tour de force you don't often hear anymore. There's much more good stuff here, but for the sake of brevity, we'll touch on a couple of covers. It's hard to make "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" a guitar piece in this day and age, and make it interesting. But Trovato does just that. A beautiful, almost two-minute solo chord intro leads into some gorgeous Larry Carlton-style soloing that rounds out a wonderful take on this classic. And I never thought I'd hear a guitarist tackle Billy Joel's "Root Beer Rag," but Steve does it, and in sparkling style. It's a single-line/fingerpicked masterpiece. Plain and simple, Trovato is a great guitarist. Check him out at stevetrovato.com or greatguitarmusic.com. John Heidt BIO Steve Trovato maintains a full-time position in the Studio Jazz Guitar Department at the University of Southern California and has an exciting career in several facets of the music industry. As a multi - stylist, Steve is versatile and highly knowledgeable in all popular genres of guitar music. He has studied with Jazz greats Tal-Farlow, Chuck Wayne, and Pat Martino. With extensive recording experience he can be heard on countless television and motion picture scores. Mr. Trovato's credits include composing and producing music for First International Pictures. National Lampoon and guitar on a re-recording of the famous television western theme "Bonanza" for NBC. Steve Trovato was presented the "Gibson" award for outstanding musical achievement from the Musicians Institute in Hollywood California where he graduated with top honors. Other awards include induction into the Tune-up magazine hall of fame for his outstanding contributions to the promotion and performance of guitar music. He has authored Twenty-one instructional Books published with Warner Brothers and Hal Leonard. His three instructional videos include topics such as: Contemporary Country guitar soloing, Country guitar: " getting the sounds" and Country guitar tips with Albert Lee, Steve Morse, Jerry Donahue and himself He is currently a regular contributor for five international music publications including: Guitar Player, Guitar One, Axe, Guitar Club and Guitar World and Chittare. He has recently completed feature interviews for Three Italian Guitar Publications and The German Magazine : Guitarre and Basse. Steve has toured extensively in North America, Asia, and Europe and supplements his touring schedule with clinics and master classes. His students have achieved major success and include Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, and Norman Brown.. Mr. Trovato has performed in concert with Robben Ford, Scott Henderson, Albert Lee, Albert Collins, Jerry Donahue, Norman Brown and Jeff Berlin. In 1996 he was a featured performer at Jazzfest in Sardinia, Italy. He rounds out his appearance schedule with clinics and master classes conducted around the world. In addition to his full time position at USC,Steve Trovato is an artist/clinician for and endorses Roland Corporation, Thomastik-Infeld strings, Groove Tubes, Breedlove guitars, Fender music amplifiers and G&L guitars. He has added five new instructional books to his repertoire in 2000. All are published by Hal Leonard corporation. Titles include: Basic Blues guitar, Contemporary acoustic guitar, Rhythm guitar styles sampler, Country guitar licks and Country guitar solos. Steve's music will be featured on an upcoming CD for Roland Corporation Demonstrating their VG-88 guitar modeling system. In addition to himself, the CD will feature: Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Al Di Meola, Neal Shoen George Lynch, Paul Gilbert and Richard Smith. He recently released his much anticipated debut CD entitled: About Time... Steve is available for concert/clinic tours and may be contacted at the address below. STEPHEN V.TROVATO_____ 1510 ½ Rollin Street South Pasadena, Ca. 91030 Stevetrovato.com