The boldly inventive improvisations of maverick guitarist Wayne Krantz have long held a fascination for fans of dynamic, uncompromised music. Ex-Sideman with Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, Michael Brecker, Billy Cobham and many others, Krantz has focused on live performance for nearly two decades, holding down a residency at New York City's 55 Bar. Now, with Krantz Carlock Lefebvre, his first album for the hip, artist friendly music label Abstract Logix, he is returning to a recording studio to document his own music for the first time in over fifteen years.

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Every time he puts a guitar in his hands – on stage, in the studio, in informal musical situations and daily practice sessions – Wayne Krantz walks a on a musical high wire. Few musicians are capable of handling, or willing to face, the degree of risk Krantz throws himself into so intently. His dangerous, boldly creative music is almost entirely of the moment, and has won him an increasing amount of underground buzz as something of an anti-guitar hero. Over the past two decades, Krantz has regularly mined a perilous, unguardedly pure strain of improvisation, set into the context of some of the heaviest, most individualized mind/body band grooves out there today.


“I had begun to notice that all my favorite musicians had their own thing,” he explains. “So, when I moved, I purged myself of everything and everyone that may have influenced me and started over. “ Krantz arrived at a sound that was incisive and direct, refreshingly free of effects and affectations, more often than not just a Strat plugged directly into an amp. The purity of tone was matched with a formidable rhythmic intelligence and an unflinching willingness to take chances.


Krantz’s 55 Bar era also heralded the introduction of a business model radical in its simplicity. Not long after each Thursday night’s show, a recording of that show was made available for sale on WayneKrantz.com as a digital download. These raw, immediate recordings were also drawn upon for a series of self-released live CDs, beginning with 1999’s Greenwich Mean, which introduced Krantz’s new trio of Tim Lefebvre and Keith Carlock, and continuing on with 2003’s Your Basic Live and Your Basic Live ’06.


Excerpts above are from a full article here: http://label.abstractlogix.com/?p=650
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