| Venue: Mermaid Arts Centre |
| Date & Hour: , Sunday 2nd May, 8pm |
| Also featuring: Michael Buckley's Dublin Standard Time |
Wayne Krantz is as hip as guitar playing gets.
The Oregon born player has a big reputation amongst guitarists, his music straddling jazz, rock, funk and various abstract genres.
Best known for his work as part of a muscular trio that includes one Gary Novak on drums and the great Tim Lefebvre on bass, Krantz is an unflinching adventurer and compelling performer.
His muscular playing has been likened (in rock circles) to that of Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck and (in jazz) to John Scofield and Bill Frizell.
A player for several years with the reformed Steely Dan, Krantz has brought much of that group’s funk and jazz sensibility to his playing, yet at the same time he is a brilliant improviser who can conjure imaginative lines at will – and glide between bone-crunchingly grungy hard driving riffs and string caressing melodism.
“… as hip as guitar playing gets”– Cormac Larkin, The Sunday Tribune
“One of the great electric trios”– All About Jazz |
