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Kim Reith
I play a Herb Ellis model Aria Pro II hollow-body electric guitar through a Polytone Mini-Brute amp.
To backtrack a bit and fill you in on some personal history, I was raised in San Diego, California, but lived in San Francisco for 18 years. I've also traveled extensively throughout Europe and Japan. I returned to my hometown in 1993, then in 2000 moved to LA. Until 1985, when I began studying the guitar, my background was in art and writing. As a child, I was exposed to a large jazz, blues, folk, opera, world and ethnomusicology recording collection belonging to my mother. I studied guitar privately with San Francisco jazz guitarists Marlena Teich and Duncan James and with the LA/San Diego jazz guitarist Art Johnson, and spent many years in independent study. I have been composing jazz works for small and large ensembles since 1993, formally studying jazz theory, composing and arranging under Rick Helzer at SDSU.
In 1979 I made my entr
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Kim Reith Trio: Bail!
by Glenn Astarita
Los Angeles, CA based jazz guitarist Kim Reith uses a hollow-body electric for a set consisting of her original works and Thelonius Monk’s “Epistrophy.” She adheres to the classic, jazz guitar trio format, featuring a sympathetic rhythm section sans any notions of flash and dazzle. Reith’s strengths reside within her Monk-like sense of rhythm, brimming with staggered flows, acute use of space, and an animated mode of execution. She provides the technical details on a per track basis, as she ...
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