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Chris Beckers: Messenger of Truth

Read "Messenger of Truth" reviewed by Todd S. Jenkins


Dutch guitarist Chris Beckers straddles the line between smooth jazz and jazz-rock fusion with comparative ease, creating comfortable textures that keep the listener from dozing or running away. His label CrisCrazz has handled Dutch fusion artists for over twenty years, including the great recent debut by Sietse Huisman’s Art Attack, and this is Beckers’ tenth release under his own name. In the company of several modern fusion stars, he’s crafted a real winner here.

Beckers’ tone is usually pacifying and ...

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Funky-Groovy-Jazzy Sounds from Amsterdam: Chris Beckers with Jimmy Haslip, Peter Erskine, Ernie Watts, Michiel Borstlap

Funky-Groovy-Jazzy Sounds from Amsterdam: Chris Beckers with Jimmy Haslip, Peter Erskine, Ernie Watts, Michiel Borstlap

Source: All About Jazz

Funky-Groovy-Jazzy Sounds from Amsterdam CrisCrazz Records,the music company of producer, composer and guitarist Chris Beckers, is back on duty.The new base for these activities is Amsterdam, from where the label plans the release of new CDs in the field of jazz, acid, funk, groove and fusion. Chris has also established his new BEAU GARAGE STUDIO in the museum quarter of the old center of Amsterdam in the basement of a typical, more than 100 years old Dutch building. Chris is ...

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