Laurence Juber Holidays And Hollynights

Dec 5, 2016 · 10m 33s
Laurence Juber Holidays And Hollynights
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GRAMMY® winning guitarist Laurence Juber is a solo performer, recording artist, composer and arranger. His playing fuses folk, jazz, blues, pop and classical styles, cre-ating a multi-faceted performance that belies...

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GRAMMY® winning guitarist Laurence Juber is a solo performer, recording artist, composer and arranger. His playing fuses folk, jazz, blues, pop and classical styles, cre-ating a multi-faceted performance that belies the use of only one instrument. A music graduate of London’s Goldsmith’s College,he was featured guitar soloist with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra before becoming established as a studio musician inthe mid-1970’s. First internationally recognized as lead guitarist in Beatle Paul McCart-ney's Wings, with whom he won a Grammy, Juber has since established himself as world-renowned guitar virtuoso and entertainer. Juber, known to his fans as LJ, has released 24 solo albums which spotlight his unique touch and tone on acoustic guitar. The latest, Holidays & Hollynights, isa seasonal re-lease that features Laurence in a trio context with upright bass and drums. His LJ Plays The Beatles was voted one of Acoustic Guitar Magazine's all-time Top Ten albums. His solo arrangement ofThe Pink Panther Theme earned him a second Grammy, while his arrangement of Stand By Me was heard nationally in a Diamonds Are Forever commercial. Juber’s DVD-Audio project Guitar Noir (AIX Records) won a CES Demmy award for best audio. His 'photo memoir' Guitar With Wings was recently published by Dalton Watson Fine Books. As a studio musician, he can be heard on recordings from artists as diverse as Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks, Seal and the French chanteuse Sylvie Vartin, plus heis featured on the soundtracks to hundreds ofTV shows such as Home Improvement and movies including the academy award-winning Dirty Dancing, Good Will Hunting and Pocahontas. Juber co-composed the soundtrack of the award-winning video game Diablo III and scored the NBC Dateline documentary Children Of The Harvest. His music is also fea-tured in the Ken Burns’ documentary The Tenth Inning.
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