Steve Trovato
About Time...
© 2001 Steve Trovato (656613163924)
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Virtuoso guitar playing at its best. Styles range from Blues to Country, Jazz, Rock and Classical.
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- 1 Dg's Boogie
- 2 Knock,knock,knock
- 3 Dark Eyes
- 4 Small Things Remembered
- 5 Squawkin'
- 6 Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- 7 Drowning in My Own Tears
- 8 Root Beer Rag
- 9 Adagio For Strings
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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
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- author: claudio castellano
A very good guitarist!
Absolutely incredible
author: Greg SoxA lot of guitarists can play in more than one style, a lesser number can do so with authenticity. But when it comes to players who can really OWN several very different guitar styles, you're down to a double-handful or less, and Steve Trovato has to be at the top of the list. If you like great music, you should get this CD. If you're a guitarist, you have to have it.
Excellent!
author: NickWhat a great disc! Stevie is an extraordinary player and his country chops are superhuman.
groove and excellence all over
author: TomaxI'm nuts about twang guitar, and that's what the CD starts with. It's brilliant! But then this is not all, there is the jazzy as well as the bluesy side of Steve Trovato you get to hear. Even some gypsy jazz and acoustic picking is on there. If you like metal guitar and high speed licks then look elsewhere, but if you're fond of a lot of different moods of guitar playing at a high performance level go for it
Unbelievable energy, amazing technique, great tunes!
author: Stuie WinkelmanHoly smokes! Steve Trovato cranks it up on this cd, and lays down a blizzard of notes - all good! There is so much good guitar playing on this cd, that it takes several spins just to soak it all in. The song writing is great, and the arrangements are tight as a drum. And whether you are a musician or not, Steve's technique will leave you gasping for air! From the staggering pace of DG's Boogie, to the sweet sophistication of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Steve does it all on this cd. It is sheer pleasure to spin this disc over and over again! Go buy this cd now! It'll make your face hurt from smiling!
As good as it gets
author: Ray JohnsonSteve has put out a recording that does justice to his talents, something that's not easy to do in one disk. It covers several styles of music and gives you the idea of what he can do and how well he plays. The review in Guitar Player described him as a super picker and that kind of says what you need to know. Total world class player.
A guitar player's guitarist
author: Michael SadlerTrovato's range of styles, technique, and sense of humor come through. My new favorite player!
I enjoyed it a lot - especially the wide range of stiles!
author: Bjarne SkjoldagerIt is such a delight to listen the skills of Steve trovato - hats off! You get some nasty-sounding twangy boogieguitar, soft sounding jazz, fireloaded gipsy guitar and finishes off with a classic like song. Great stuff and wonderfully executed.