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Goodbye To Romance: Standards For A New Generation
Alex Skolnick Trio
Goodbye To Romance: Standards For A New Generation
Genres: Jazz, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal
 
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Take classic hard rock tunes from the 70s and 80s by the likes of Kiss, Scorpions, Black Sabbath and others. Rearrange them with rich harmonies and pulsating grooves of swing, funk and Latin. Throw in fiery improvisations ...  more »

     
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All Artists: Alex Skolnick Trio
Title: Goodbye To Romance: Standards For A New Generation
Members Wishing: 4
Total Copies: 0
Label: Skol Productions
Original Release Date: 3/20/2002
Release Date: 3/20/2002
Genres: Jazz, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 742545100127

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Take classic hard rock tunes from the 70s and 80s by the likes of Kiss, Scorpions, Black Sabbath and others. Rearrange them with rich harmonies and pulsating grooves of swing, funk and Latin. Throw in fiery improvisations on hollowbody guitar, double-bass and drums. What do you get? The Alex Skolnick Trio. At age eighteen, Alex Skolnick became a guitar hero with the metal band Testament. A few years and several albums later, he went on to perform and study jazz in New York, earning a music degree. Now, the worlds of metal and jazz have come together. Hear the result on "Goodbye To Romance: Standards For A New Generation."

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This is the album I have been looking for, for years
just some guy | San Ramon, CA United States | 10/18/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I love both heavy metal and jazz, and I have been looking for a good confluence of the two. I've found some swingcore (Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Hipster Daddio & The Hand Grenades, Leslie Bell & The First Bang Band), but most of it never lived up to its potential. The Lukather/Carlton collaboration was good but also fell short, and Stanley Jordan's experiments were too tentative.



This, however, is terrific. Skolnick is a great guitar player with serious knoweldge of music theory. The arrangements are truly in the jazz idiom, with the requisite improvistational feel and the triad chord structure, but the melodies are metal all the way (if tamed a bit). I've been listening to this album a lot."