Zach Larmer

Zach Larmer Electric Band: Inner Circle

by Geannine Reid
June 30, 2016

On Miami-based American composer/guitarist Zach Larmer's debut album entitled Inner Circle, he emphasizes his instrumental virtuosity and compositional finesse. Not only does he compose five of the seven tracks, Bassist Juan Pablo Diaz pens “Friedrichshain" and one standard completes the set. Larmer certainly establishes himself as a force to reckoned with in the modern jazz guitar community. Still, as much as Larmers' playing and ear is rooted in the deeper jazz tradition, there are equal chunks of more forward-looking sounds, ...