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TWO MUCH GUITAR by Bill Coon / Oliver Gannon
fave it - sampleChi Chi
- sampleAll The Things You Are
- samplePolka Dots and Moonbeams
- sampleZattitude
- sampleDarn That Dream
- sampleHave Your Met Miss Jones
- sampleIf You Could See Me Now
- sampleSo Nice
Oliver Gannon an Bill Coon are two of Canada's treasures. Both exceptional guitarists who have a mutual repsect for one another that results in some incredibly fine music.
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Editorial review
Too Much Guitar shows two prolific guitarists at their best. Recorded live at The Cellar, Bill Coon and Oliver Gannon, both veterans of the Canadian jazz scene, are an imaginative duo who make their instruments sing in amazing new ways. Theirs is a conversation across the ages steeped in both the modernistic sounds of John Scofield and Bill Frisell as well as the traditional jazz sounds of Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery. Accompanied by "Darren Radtke" on bass and Dave Robbins on drums, the ensemble plays such rarely heard standards as "Chi Chi" by Charlie Parker, "Have You Met Miss Jones," and "Darn That Dream." Sharply tuned and harmonically pleasing, Too Much Guitar taps deep into the improvisational potential of the music without losing sight of its original structure. The richness of Gannon's writing on "So Nice" and Coon's on "Zattitude" is especially notable, though elsewhere on this superb recording, their string virtuosity is more diverse. ~ Paula Edelstein, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Bill Coon has been performing professionally for twenty years and began his musical career in Montreal where he was a long time member of the Andre White Band.
His association with White has had a large effect on his development as a player and composer.
His formative studies were at Vanier CEGEP where Coon studied guitar with Sam Balderman, as well as improvisation with Art Roberts and arranging-composing with Al Baculus.
He later obtained a degree in Jazz Studies at Concordia University where after graduating he taught private guitar studies and arranging.
In Montreal he was an original member of Jennifer Bell and Bill Mahar's Altsys Jazz Orchestra and collaborated with guitarist-vocalist Dawn Thomson (most notably in the jazz chamber group Indigo).
He also performed with his own jazz trio that included at various times Andre White, Alec Walkington and Pete Magadini.
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