GUITAR TRAX hosted by Brian Tarquin airs every Monday night from 10pm-12pm on WFIT 89.5FM on the Florida space coast, you can listen online WFIT.org. Tarquin plays jazz/rock fusion styles such as Weather Report, Pat Metheny, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Billy Cobham to Jeff Beck and Frank Zappa. The show also features in-depth interviews with today’s hottest guitar legends. Brian Tarquin is a multi Emmy Award winning composer/guitarist, who first graced the Top 20 Billboard Charts back in 1997 with ...
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Episode 25: Doug Aldrich (Dio/Whitesnake) Interview
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Doug Aldrich was the longtime guitarist of Whitesnake as well as working with Ronnie James Dio for years on such albums as "Killing the Dragon". He also has worked with such bands as, Lion, Hurricane, House of Lords, Bad Moon Rising and Revolution Saints. He is currently a member of The Dead Daisies having replaced Richard Fortus as guitarist in 20…
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Episode 24: Malcolm Toft (Trident Studios) Interview
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Malcolm Toft has a career spanning over 50 years in the professional audio industry. He started his career at CBS studios in London and went on to work at the iconic Trident Studios. There he began as an audio engineer, then moved to studio manager working on records by The Beatles, David Bowie, T-Rex, James Taylor, Joe Cocker and many others. As a…
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Episode 23: 2024 Hal Lindes Interview
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Hal Lindes became a full-time member of Dire Straits at the end of 1980, shortly after the release of the group's third album, Making Movies. He replaced original co-founding member and rhythm guitarist David Knopfler. Lindes toured with Dire Straits while they were promoting Making Movies and remained with the band while they recorded their fourth…
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Episode 22: 2024 Jean Luc Ponty Interview
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Jean-Luc Ponty is a pioneer and undisputed master of violin in the arena of jazz and rock. He is widely regarded as an innovator who has applied his unique visionary spin that has expanded the vocabulary of modern music. In 1969, Frank Zappa composed the music for Jean-Luc’s solo album King Kong (Blue Note). In 1972, Elton John invited Ponty to con…
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Episode 21: Jeff Kollman (Alan Parsons) Interview
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Guitarist Jeff Kollman has traveled the far reaches of the globe from the Kremlin Palace to Wembley Stadium, from Dubai to the Capetown Jazz Fests, from midwest metal with his original band Edwin Dare to the likes of Sebastian Bach (Skidrow), to gracing the stage of the legendary Budokan 15 times with Japanese legend Eikichi Yazawa. Jeff has played…
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Jeff Aug has been touring as a solo guitarist for the last 25+ years in Europe and the United States, set two Guinness™ World Records, and landed a #1 album on the Apple iTunes Acoustic Music Charts in the United States. Originally from Washington, DC, Jeff has been living in the Alps' foothills in Southern Germany for 20+ years. He has toured with…
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As a musician in high school, Owen Husney formed a band and by the following summer had a top 10 charted record in 19 US cities. As adman, Husney wrote commercials for Randy Newman and Little Feat and traveled on the road with Richard Harris, Sonny and Cher, The Rolling Stones, and Alice Cooper. During his stint as concert producer/promoter he work…
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Episode 19: Geoff Gray (Far & Away Studios)
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One of my mentors in studio recording was a wonderful guy named Geoff Gray who owned Far & Away Studios in New York. I remember graduating from the Center for the Media Arts and finding work as an assistant engineer at his studio back in 1980's. I learned quite a bit about studio recording and producing musicians during my tenure with Geoff. Since …
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Episode 18: Foghat (Bryan Bassett) Interview
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Bryan Bassett has over 40 years experience as a professional musician and recording artist and 30 years experience as a recording engineer and producer. Guitarist for "Foghat". Bryan is a songwriter/guitarist/engineer and producer who has worked on Foghat's "Return of the Boogie Men", "Road Cases", "Family Joules", "Live II", "The Official Bootleg …
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Episode 17: Stuart Epps (Producer/Engineer) Interview
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Stuart Epps’s ‘official’ career in music began in 1967 at Dick James Music (The Beatle’s first publisher) on New Oxford Street in London. Aged only 15, he’d been persuaded by his friend Clive Franks, who was the record cutter at DJM at the time, to leave school and apply to be a ‘runner’. Getting a job as an office boy, he found himself right in th…
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Episode 16: Rich Williams (Kansas) Interview
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With a legendary career spanning five decades, KANSAS has firmly established itself as one of America’s iconic classic rock bands. This "garage band" from Topeka released their debut album in 1974 after being discovered by Wally Gold, who worked for Don Kirshner, and have gone on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide. Rich Williams is one o…
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Steve Vai needs no introduction! A virtuoso guitarist, visionary composer, and consummate producer who sculpts musical sound with infinite creativity and technical mastery, Steve Vai has awed fans of all genres with his exceptional guitar skills and musicianship for decades. At age 12, he started taking guitar lessons from Joe Satriani. At 18, he b…
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Larry Crane (Tape Op Magazine) Interview
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Larry Crane is an American editor and founder of Tape Op Magazine and recording engineer/owner of Portland's Jackpot! Recording Studio, He is also a freelance engineer, and the archivist for the estate of musician Elliott Smith. Jackpot has recorded the likes of Built to Spill, Wooden Shjips, Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Spoon, R.E.M., The December…
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Stu Hamm is an iconic bass player who attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he met guitarist Steve Vai and, through him, met Joe Satriani. Hamm. He played bass on Vai's debut solo album, Flex-Able, which was released in 1984. Hamm has performed and recorded with Steve Vai, Frank Gambale, Joe Satriani and many other well-respected g…
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In the year 1973, Uli’s friend, Michael Schenker, quit the already established band Scorpions to join UFO in England. This lead to the break-up of the Scorpions, which his brother, Rudolf Schenker, had formed in the Sixties. But before leaving the band, Michael asked Uli to take his place instead. Later that year, the two remaining members of Scorp…
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Dave Mason left Traffic in 1969 to pursue a solo career in the U.S. Dave has penned over 100 songs, has 3 gold albums: Alone Together, Dave Mason, Mariposa De Oro, and platinum album Let It Flow, which contained the top-ten single “We Just Disagree”. In addition to cranking out hits, Dave has performed on, or contributed to, a number of famous albu…
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Episode 12: Percy Jones (Brand X) Interview
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Percy Jones is the renowned pioneer fusion bass player with the British band Brand X. Virtuoso guitarist Steve Hackett stated "it was in fact Percy who chronologically emerged with his own unique fretless sound and should be given full credit for it”. Jones appeared on Eno’s Before and After Science, and Another Green World, on Steve Hackett’s debu…
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Episode 11: Steve Hackett (Genesis) Interview
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Steve Hackett the legendary guitarist from the band Genesis contributed to six of the band's studio albums, three live albums, seven singles and one EP before he left to pursue a solo career. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010. He released his first solo album, Voyage of the Acolyte, while still a mem…
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Gus G. former Ozzy guitarist was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece and is hailed as one of the most important and influential Metal guitarists of his generation. Gus played guitar for Ozzy from 2009 till 2017, recorded all guitars on his Grammy nominated album “Scream” and toured the globe with the Prince Of Darkness until 2016. Gus has appea…
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Episode 9: Geoff Tate (Queensrÿche) Interview
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Geoff Tate was vocalist and originaly member of the band Queensrÿche, who had groundbreaking metal albums like Rage for Order, Operation: Mindcrime and Empire. Tate is ranked fourteenth on Hit Parader's list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. He was voted No. 2 on That Metal Show's top 5 hard rock vocalists of the 1980s. In 2012, he w…
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Episode 8: Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
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Kingfish debuted on the Billboard Blues Chart in the #1 position and remained on the chart for an astonishing 91 weeks. In addition to receiving a GRAMMY Award nomination, Kingfish was named the #1 Best Blues Album of The Year by UK tastemaker magazine MOJO. Ingram’s lead single, Fresh Out (featuring Buddy Guy) was the most played song on SiriusXM’…
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Al Di Meola a bona fide guitar hero, perennial poll-winner, and prolific composer, he has amassed over 20 albums as a leader while collaborating on a dozen or so others with the likes of the fusion supergroup Return to Forever (with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White), the celebrated acoustic Guitar Trio featuring fellow virtuosos John McL…
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Episode 6: Paul Stanley of Kiss Interview
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For more than 45 years, Paul Stanley has reigned supreme as one of the single-most recognizable front men in the history of rock and roll. Although preferring to live his off stage life out of the media spotlight he continues to be the chief songwriter, driving force and unwavering voice of KISS. A visionary and trendsetter since the early 1970s, S…
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For over 40 years, he has stood as one of the most innovative electric bassists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Known for his one-of-a-kind tone, jaw dropping technique and highly advanced harmonic approaches to the bass, Jeff has been one of the major figures in firmly establishing the electric bass as a solo instrument well deserving of its own d…
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UFO guitarist Vinnie Moore is interviewed for the Guitar Trax show by Multi-Emmy award winning guitarist Brian Tarquin. Vinnie is considered one of the originators of shred guitar, and has released eight influential solo albums. He’s made countless album guest appearances, and has even recorded the soundtrack for a PEPSI TV commercial. He's talks a…
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Episode 5: Jeff Beck: Life & Times (Part 2)
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The world has just lost one of the great guitarists of a generation, the maestro himself Jeff Beck! Jeff represented so much for musicians because of his never ending strive for tone and proficiency as a guitar gunslinger. He reached millions through his decades of stellar recordings and performances that permeated our souls. He is the father of mo…
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Episode 4: Jeff Beck: Life & Times (Part 1)
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The world has just lost one of the great guitarists of a generation, the maestro himself Jeff Beck! Jeff represented so much for musicians because of his never ending strive for tone and proficiency as a guitar gunslinger. He reached millions through his decades of stellar recordings and performances that permeated our souls. He is the father of mo…
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Episode 3: 2022 Joe Satriani Interview-Part 2
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JOE SATRIANI is kicking off 2022 with a brand-new album, The Elephants of Mars, which marks the legendary guitarist’s 19th studio album in his 35+year career in music. This album also marks the debut of his new label partnership with earMUSIC, the international rock label of entertainment group Edel. Pre-orders are available now and include a speci…
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Episode 2: 2022 Joe Satriani Interview-Part 1
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JOE SATRIANI is kicking off 2022 with a brand-new album, The Elephants of Mars, which marks the legendary guitarist’s 19th studio album in his 35+year career in music. This album also marks the debut of his new label partnership with earMUSIC, the international rock label of entertainment group Edel. Pre-orders are available now and include a speci…
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Eric Johnson has been traveling on a prolific odyssey over the course of more than four decades. Along the way, his creations have encompassed repertoire that cross pollinate genres which include rock, blues, jazz, fusion, soul, folk, new-age, classical and even country. Inevitably E.J. says it best himself in sharing. “It really boils down to the …
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Robben Ford is one of the premier electric guitarists today, particularly known for his fusion and blues playing, as well as his ability to be comfortable in a variety of musical contexts. A five-time Grammy nominee, he has played with artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Witherspoon, Miles Davis, George Harrison, Phil Lesh, Bonnie Raitt, Mic…
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Gerald Gradwohl (Tangerine Dream) Interview
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Guitarists with grammy nominated TANGERINE DREAM from 1995-2007. His solo record ABQ was recorded in 2002 with the great BOB BERG and the TRIBAL TECH rhythm section Gary Willis and Kirk Covington. On his recent release “RAW”(2016) he pulls all the stops of his musical skills. “As much composition as necessary and as much improvisation as possible” …
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Robin Trower is one of the great guitar legends of all time. He began his career in the 1960s with the band The Paramounts and Procol Harum, whose enigmatic lyrics and evocative sound typified and exemplified for many an era of experimentation and idyllic hopes. Deeply inspired by the blues as well as his contemporaries, including rock guitarist Ji…
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A member of the British rock group Supertramp since 1985, Carl has played to millions of enthusiastic fans in sold out arenas worldwide. In his 50-plus years of playing the instrument, Carl has created a wildly successful, multi-faceted career. He is a critically acclaimed musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, producer and educator with fifteen…
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Violin virtuoso Steve Kindler has performed and recorded with Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer. He has played in The Honolulu Symphony, but he cut his jazz chops with guitar great John McLaughlin. Kindler's smooth yet impassioned violin improvisations are the perfect vehicle for his own highly melodic compositions, combining classical…
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Most notably Hammer performed and recorded with Jeff Beck during Beck's most fruitful fusion period in the 1970's. He also scored the popular television show Miami Vice from the 1980s, consisting of the "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme". He collaborated with the most influential jazz and rock musicians from the fusion era such as John McLau…
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Dean Brown's guitar work can be heard on well over 200 recordings which include numerous GRAMMY® nominations and four GRAMMY® Award winners. Dean has released his fifth celebrated album after four acclaimed previous solo CD's worldwide. Dean has toured and recorded with legendary artists such as: Marcus Miller, The Brecker Brothers, Billy Cobham, D…
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Very sadly on Tuesday October 6, 2020 65-year-old Eddie Van Halen passed away from a long struggle with throat cancer. His son Wolfgang stated “He was the best father I could ever ask for. Every moment I’ve shared with him on and off stage was a gift. My heart is broken, and I don’t think I’ll ever fully recover from this loss. I love you so much, …
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Billy Cobham was the original drummer of Mahavishnu Orchestra and his 1973 solo album 'Spectrum' was a groundbreaking record featuring Tommy Bolin, Jan Hammer and Lee Sklar. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013. Cobham is most noted for his amazing dexterity and his soaring high-o…
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John McLaughlin has been called the "greatest guitarist in the world" by Jeff Beck & Pat Metheny. In the 60's he gave guitar lessons to Jimmy Page and in 1963, John played with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in the band Graham Bond Quartet. They played an eclectic range of music genres, including bebop, blues and rhythm and blues. In 1969 he played wi…
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Travis Stever (Coheed & Cambria) Interview
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Coheed & Cambria guitarist Travis Stever is interviewed for the Guitar Trax Show by Multi-Emmy award winning guitarist Brian Tarquin. Travis is a founding member of Coheed and Cambria. The band is named after the title characters in lead singer-guitarist Claudio Sanchez's story, which is central to most of the band's albums.[1] Stever acts as a lea…
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Acoustic Guitarist Peppino D'Agostino is interviewed for the Guitar Trax show by Multi-Emmy award winning guitarist Brian Tarquin. D’Agostino has performed in more than 30 countries, at prestigious international festivals and has played in some of the world’s most important theaters. He has shared the stage with Tommy Emmanuel, Leo Kottke, Laurindo…
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Hal Lindes (Dire Straits) Interview
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Hal Lindes guitarist from Dire Straits is interviewed for the Guitar Trax show by Multi-Emmy award winning guitarist Brian Tarquin. Hal became a full-time member of Dire Straits at the end of 1980, shortly after the release of the group's third album, Making Movies. He replaced original co-founding member and rhythm guitarist David Knopfler. During…
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Legendary fusion violinist Jean Luc Ponty is interviewed for the Guitar Trax show by Multi-Emmy award winning guitarist Brian Tarquin. Jean-Luc Ponty is a pioneer and undisputed master of violin in the arena of jazz and rock. He is widely regarded as an innovator who has applied his unique visionary spin that has expanded the vocabulary of modern m…
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Chris Haskett (The Henry Rollins Band) Interview
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Guitarist Chris Haskett from the Henry Rollins Band & David Bowie is interviewed for the Guitar Trax show by Multi-Emmy award winning guitarist Brian Tarquin. Chris Haskett is a Grammy-nominated American guitar player mainly known for his time in the Rollins Band in the 1980s and 90s. After eight albums, Chris is releasing an instrumental EP of ori…
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Johannes Weik from Son of A Bach Interview
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German guitarist Johannes Weik from Son of A Bach is interviewed for the Guitar Trax show by Multi-Emmy award winning guitarist Brian Tarquin. GUITAR TRAX hosted by Brian Tarquin will feature in- depth interviews with today’s hottest guitar legends and airs every Monday night from 10pm-12pm on WFIT 89.5FM on the Florida space coast. Tarquin is an m…
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Steve Morse (Deep Purple, The Dixie Dregs) Interview
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Guitar Icon Steve Morse is founder of the Dixie Dregs and lead guitarist of Deep Purple since 1994. Morse has also enjoyed a successful solo career and was briefly a member of the group Kansas in the mid-1980s. A “guitarist’s guitarist”, he was voted “Best Overall Guitarist” in the Guitar Player magazine Readers Poll for five consecutive years, bef…
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Will Ray (The Hellecasters) Interview
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Will Ray is a long-time American session guitarist and current member of the Hellecasters. Ray has also released a number of solo albums. He is considered an influential player of the Fender Telecaster line of guitars. Fender made two Will Ray signature models in the late 1990s: the Jazz-a-Caster and the Mojo-Tele. G&L is now offering a Will Ray si…
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Japan's "JAZZ LIFE" magazine selected the 22 All-Time Greatest Jazz Guitarists. Of course, legends like Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, and Jim Hall were included alongside more recent giants George Benson, Pat Martino, Larry Coryell, and John McLaughlin. But right there, amongst contemporaries John Abercrombie, …
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Contemporary Jazz guitarist Denny Jiosa is interviewed for the Guitar Trax show by Multi-Emmy award winning guitarist Brian Tarquin. GUITAR TRAX hosted by Brian Tarquin will feature in- depth interviews with today’s hottest guitar legends and airs every Monday night from 10pm-12pm on WFIT 89.5FM on the Florida space coast. Tarquin is an multi Emmy …
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