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1. HOW MANY PLAYERS ARE IN THE BILL BARNES TRIO?
Yes, this was an actual question (from a very short acquaintance.)
2. IS THE TRIO AVAILABLE FOR LIVE PERFORMANCES?
Yes! Inquire within for current booking and contact information.
3. WHERE MAY I OBTAIN A COPY OF WINDS OF BODHGAYA?
Amazon, CD Baby, Barnes & Noble.com select retail stores,
iTunes.
Click here for more details
4. WHAT ABOUT BILL’S GUITARS?
Bill plays several guitars, including a Schecter Mercury, Fender F-200
acoustic
and his beloved archtop jazz box, the D’Angelico New Yorker, an
authorized re-creation of the fabled instrument created by the late master
New York luthier John D’Angelico, crafted by top Japanese luthier Shino. This
is the guitar played exclusively on his latest recording, Winds of Bodhgaya.
The
most recent addition to his guitar family is a Selmer-style jazz Manouche
acoustic
petite bouche made by Dell'Arte, a replica of Django Reinhardt's
favorite guitar.
5. WHO ARE BILL’S FAVORITE GUITAR PLAYERS?
Over the years Bill has been influenced by many different jazz players,
including Kenny Burrell, John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, Howard Roberts,
Larry Carlton, Pat Martino, Pat Metheny, Attila Zollar, Jim Hall, Joe Pass,
George Barnes, Bucky Pizzarelli, Grant Green, George Benson, Gabor
Szabo, Django
Reinhardt and Lenny Breau. Other influences include blues,
R&B and rock guitarists such as BB
King, Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield,
Steve Cropper, Johnny
Winter, Roy Buchanan, Duane Allman, Jeff Beck
and Hank
Garland. Currently he is digging on newer rising stars such as
Ron Affif, Mark Whitfield and Swiss Guitarist Thomas Moeckel.
6. WHAT'S BILL’S WORKING ON NOW?
Always looking to continue his artistic growth, Bill has been revisiting the
music
of Django Reinhardt,
the legendary Romany guitarist who pioneered
jazz guitar as a solo instrument back in the nineteen-thirties and gave birth
to
a whole genre now commonly
called "Hot Club swing" or "Gypsy jazz", more
correctly called jazz Manouche and the technique of jazz Manouche. This art
lives on in contemporary Romany guitarists such as Bireli Lagrene, Jimmy
Rosenberg,
Angelo Debarre, Stochelo Rosenberg, Tchavalo Schmitt and
others. Bill
hopes to eventually add his musical
voice to the rising tide of
non-Gypsy guitarists in what is now being called the
Hot Club Revival.
7. WHERE CAN I SEE MORE PHOTOS OF BILL?
Click here
Jazz - Straight Ahead and Slightly to the Left 
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