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Joe Fuentes: Joe Fuentes Goes MP3
by Robert Clarke
Guitarist Joe Fuentes CD Joe Fuentes Goes MP3" is a somewhat pleasant, but not a terribly involving, recording. His guitar and sound is a take on the Peter White formula, although he overuses the drum machines and lacks White's talent for composing memorable tunes. Therein lies most of the problem with this album. The songs, mainly written by Fuentes, lack any real excitement, and are largely forgettable as a result. In fact, halfway through the disc, déjà vu sets in, ...
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by Jim Santella
Smooth jazz behind the delicate sounds of Joe Fuentes’ guitar color this session and offer a mild stimulant. The music includes background electric bass, additional guitars, keyboards, and programmed percussion; it’s music for relaxation, but with a powerful lead guitar wake-up call. The 35-year-old artist lives and works in San Francisco, where the jazz scene can still be heard going strong on any given night of the week. Overdubbing the accompaniment himself, Fuentes shows his versatility as bassist, pianist and ...
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by Jim Santella
As Joe Fuentes states in the liner notes to his recording, the nylon string guitar has made a comeback into the more popular forms of music." Classically-trained and broadly-influenced, the guitarist combines from many musical genres, but settles with the smoother, more adult-oriented side of modern popular music that some refer to as New Adult Contemporary, and others refer to as Contemporary or Smooth Jazz.
With soothing melodic lines and gentle undercurrents, the session blends smooth jazz, as one would ...
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