Alex Skolnick Trio

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Odysseus on Friday, December 22, 2017 – 10:15 am

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I witnessed a very cool night of music with guitarist extraordinaire Alex Skolnick (from a very successful Metal Band - Testament) and his Jazz Trio.

The Alex Skolnick Trio is a fairly normal Jazz band, with Nathan Peck on bass, Matt Zebroski on drums and Alex on his jazz axe.

For the Trio Alex plays an Ibanez Jazz Hollow Body guitar, that looks like a George Benson model.

A renowned guitar player, with major endorsements. An educated musicologist, with degrees from the Berkley School of Music and the New School in NYC.

{Alex has many instructional videos on YouTube that are great}

Alex will take a rock standard and dress it up in jazz. Much more straight ahead then you would think.  Diction lessons and a huge fan of Charlie Christian & Django Reinhardt.

Highlights of this show were Aerosmith's Dream On & a song he wrote about an inspired by Prince called 99/09

Below are some videos & photographs of the show -

 

The Alex Skolnick Trio performs to a musically spellbound audience at the Boulton Center in Bayshore, NY. 12/21/2017

 

Alex Skolnick Trio Boulton Center Bayshore NY "Unbound" 12212017

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j8d3_sNiFM

Alex Skolnick Trio Boulton Center Bayshore NY "Dream On" 12212017

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biD4lqLfr6o

Alex Skolnick Trio Boulton Center Bayshore NY " 99 09" 12212017

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sptb5Riih-Q

Alex Skolnick Trio Boulton Center Bayshore NY "Still Loving You" 12212017

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQx0Y-ttJIM

 

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Odysseus on Friday, December 22, 2017 – 10:17 am

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Odysseus on Friday, December 22, 2017 – 10:19 am

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Odysseus on Friday, December 22, 2017 – 10:31 am

These video are around 12 minutes long. The song Still Loving You as a few bars of drum solo missing at the end. Sorry

I did not record a Deep Purple medley (for the Winter Solstice) and the encore which was Jimi Hendrix's Red House.

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gdfan on Friday, December 22, 2017 – 10:32 am

Testament rules, fuck the weak shit devil

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Bart on Friday, December 22, 2017 – 10:40 am

Love your reviews and video's. Not sure if you ever heard of Steve Smith    rock drummer with  a jaz group also. I have seen him a few times  he is coming to GV  Jan 29   he is really good. Some of the guys in vital information are from NY   he has 2 Jazz groups   East Coast and West Coast

http://thecenterforthearts.org/event/steve-smith-vital-information-nyc-e...

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Odysseus on Friday, December 22, 2017 – 11:01 am

Cool Bart. I haven't heard of him. I'd check him out, for sure.

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Bart on Friday, December 22, 2017 – 11:26 am

Steve Smith  was in Journey for a long time, He is rated in the top 25 best drummers .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Smith_(musician)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2f4zaz7xaY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WRrIQj-nZQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzvSwrRl5Js

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Odysseus on Friday, December 22, 2017 – 10:50 pm

Thanks Bart. I see he's Journey's drummer as well. Have fun at the Grass Valley show. I'll make it a point to see him in any band he's in.