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| Frank Vignola's Guitar Night at The Cutting Room "In the Spirit of Django" The Cutting Room Presents: Frank Vignola's Guitar Night, Tue, July 29th, 2014. Featuring 23 year old Finiish guitar sensation Olli Soikkeli, Frank Vignola, Vinny Raniolo and violinist extraordinaire Jason Anick. Just Added Very Special Guest Al Caiola The Cutting Room 44 E 32nd St New York, NY 10016 (212) 691-1900 Al Caiola Born Alexander Emil Caiola, September 7, 1920, in Jersey City, New Jersey his ability as a guitarist to play in many styles; jazz, country, rock, western, and pop made him an in-demand session player in the busy recording scene centered in New York City during the 1950s and 60s. As a sideman and a leader he's appeared on over 50 albums and has worked with some of the biggest stars in the business including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Percy Faith, Buddy Holly, Mitch Miller, and Tony Bennett to name a few. His guitar work is heard not only on many pop hits of the day, but many TV and film soundtracks too: The Magnificent Seven, From Russia with Love, Bonanza, The Ballad of Paladin, The Rebel and Gunslinger being some of the more notable ones from that era. Still active into his 9th decade he tours on a regular basis with pop vocal legend Steve Lawrence. Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world's top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Wynton Marsalis, Tommy Emmanuel, Mark OConnor, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his "Five Most Admired Guitarists List" for the Wall Street Journal. Vignola¹s jaw-dropping technique explains why the New York Times deemed him "one of the brightestŠstars of the guitar". At age 26, Vinny Raniolo has already performed at some of the top venues in the world with his music. Vinny is dedicated to his career as a professional touring musician, studio musician, educator, and arranger. Vinny has been on numerous recordings with Bucky Pizzarelli, Tommy Emmanuel, Tony Trishka, Matt Flinner, Ken Peplowski to name a few. Vinny is also an experienced educator and has taught classes at Bowling Green University, Kent State University, Asiago Music Conservatory, and others. Olli Soikkeli was born in Nurmes, Finland in 1991. He started playing guitar at age of 12. After a few years of playing Olli was introduced to the music of great Django Reinhardt and Gypsy Jazz has been Ollis main focus ever since. Soon Olli was playing in jazz clubs and festivals all around Finland. Despite his young age he's already played with stars such as Bucky Pizzarelli, Andreas Öberg, Paulus Schäfer, Antti Sarpila and Marian Petrescu. In 2011 Olli recorded his first album "Trois Générations" with Hot Club de Finlande and Vitali Imereli and in 2012 he recorded his second album "Kouvola Junction" with Paulus Schäfer and Arnoud van den Berg. The upcoming winter is going to be Ollis' busiest so far, with gigs in Europe. One of the youngest instructors at Boston's Berklee College of Music, Jason Anick is rapidly making a name for himself in the world of jazz violin and mandolin. In addition to leading his own ensemble and performing with the Rhythm Future Quartet, Anick has been touring and recording with Grammy award-winning Nashville guitar virtuoso John Jorgenson since 2008 when he was recruited while still a senior at Hartt Conservatory. He went on to record on Jorgenson's latest CD One Stolen Night, which was named one of the top 10 albums of 2010 by both the LA Times and Acoustic Guitar Magazine. Jason's composition "Occupy" won 3rd place in the 2013 international songwriting competition in the jazz category. write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Jazz News :: home page |