From Modern Guitars:
The latest guitar tribute album from Tone Center Records (part of the Shrapnel Label Group) is an homage to Jeff Beck entitled Freeway Jam - To Beck And Back. The label's previous guitar-centric tribute albums honored John Coltrane, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis, Steely Dan, and Carlos Santana. As with the previous tribute CDs, producer/arranger Jeff Richman has assembled a fine collection of diverse guitarists for this album. The featured soloists this time around are Steve Morse, John Scofield, Eric Johnson, Adam Rogers, Mike Stern, Warren Haynes, Chris Duarte, Greg Howe, Walter Trout, and Richman himself. The album also includes Vinnie Colaiuta and Simon Phillips on drums, Stu Hamm on bass, and Mitchel Forman on keyboards. Richman plays rhythm guitar on all the tracks, and plays lead on "El Becko".
[TJH]
Great post. Nice to see these great musicians keeping Jeff's music in the spotlight, especially Simon Phillips. Thinking about Jeff's music always takes me back to seeing him live with the Jan Hammer Group in October 1976 in Adelaide.
I was totally blown away by Jeff's guitar playing and Jan's keyboards. Wild stuff.
Incidentally, I believe that the Adelaide concert was only a month before the recording was done of the Jeff Beck Live with the Jan Hammer Group album which was released in 1977. So we heard the same sets and it was quite similar to the recording.
So, yeah, there is nothing quite like Jeff Beck!
Posted by: Robert Muller | June 21, 2008 at 12:08 AM