Jacqueline Ollivier Martin Beaudoin

Classic jazz guitar trio at it's best as they swing through six well known standards and three original compositions. The Gerry Beaudoin Trio has been a musical vehicle for award winning jazz guitarist Gerry Beaudoin for almost thirty years. During this time Gerry has carved out a career as a leader, arranger and guitarist and educator. His first national success was in 1990 with the Boston Jazz Ensemble. Gerry then went on to make three critically acclaimed Gerry Beaudoin Trio recordings with mandolin titan, David Grisman…

Beautiful, expressive jazz guitar with a touch of blues. Gerry Beaudoin is an award winning jazz guitarist, arranger and producer. A "guitarists guitarist", Gerry has performed and recorded with a host of jazz and blues luminaires including saxophonists, Eddie" Cleanhead" Vinson, leader of the Artie Shaw Band, Dick Johnson, Fred Lipsius, Grammy winning saxophonist, arranger and founding member of the seminal jazz rock group Blood Sweat and Tears, and Rich latyielle and Doug James from America's favorite jump , blues band Roomful Of Blues, Kansas City blues and jazz piano legend Jay McShann, mandolin titan David Grisman, featured on this recording), and harmonica virtuoso Jerry Portnoy from the Eric Clapton and Muddy Waters bands. Gerry has performed and recorded with the cream of the crop of jazz guitar including jazz guitar legend…

This unassuming and delightful little album visits a time when jazz and blues were still directly entwined, drawing on the ghosts of guitarists like Charlie Christian, Eddie Durham, Bill Jennings, Tiny Grimes, Barney Kessel, and Kenny Burrell, guitarists who used the blues to enrich the jazz pieces they played on, a kind of ensemble contribution that is all too frequently missing on the contemporary blues scene. Duke Robillard, Jay Geils, and Gerry Beaudoin are all gifted guitar players, each with his own career, but as a trio working three-part harmony lines around each other, they bring a stately ensemble grace to the tracks on New Guitar Summit (the trio also appears under that name when they do live shows).

On Jay Geils, Gerry Beaudoin and the Kings of Strings, their free flowing pace and styles open the doors to the 30's and 40's ‘gypsy' style of music in an all acoustic set. Jay and Gerry's playing has a way of drawing in Aaron Weinstein's violin and mandolin like a moth to light, and Aaron, who at the ripe age of 19, shows his understanding of this style of music. Jay Geils, Gerry Beaudoin and the Kings of Strings is an acoustic journey across 13 tracks that mixes jazz classics with a few originals from Gerry Beaudoin.

Guitarist Gerry Beaudoin makes a strong impression with this CD of easygoing swing with a few twists added. No slouch as a soloist, he also is happy to share the solo spotlight. The title track is a delightful foot-tapping original blues, with the leader trading licks with veteran guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and clarinetist Billy Novick. Check out the very upbeat version of "St. Thomas," featuring matchless mandolin master David Grisman and sensitive percussion by Grover Mooney. Grisman nearly steals the show on "All Blues," but Beaudoin gets in some choice licks, too. Also worth hearing is the unusual version of "Don't Get Around Much Anymore."

Jazz guitarist Gerry Beaudoin has carved out a career as a leader, arranger and guitarist. First with the Boston Jazz Ensemble, then through his two award winning Gerry Beaudoin Trio recordings with mandolin titan, David Grisman and now with the New Guitar Summit which features Gerry alongside blues icon Duke Robillard and rock star turned jazz guitarist Jay Geils from the J.Geils Band.The award winning guitarist, ( 1992 NAIRD AWARD FOR BEST JAZZ RECORDING , 1993 and 1995 CADENCE EDITORS CHOICE AWARD, 1998 "submission for consideration for a Grammy nomination" ) has continued to seek out more challenging musical situations…