Philip Catherine - Guitars (1975)

Artist: Philip Catherine
Title Of Album: Guitars
Year Of Release: 1975
Label: Atlantic
Genre: Jazz Guitar, Smooth
Format: FLAC (Tracks)+CUE, LOG
Total Time: 00:39:30
Total Size: 180 mb

Biography by Richard S. Ginell

Philip Catherine has been called the "Young Django" by none other than Charles Mingus, and upon hearing his elliptical, rapid-fire, expressively melodic acoustic guitar, there can be no doubt as to whose records he was absorbing as a youth. Born to a Belgian father and English mother living in London during World War II, Catherine went back with his family to Brussels after the war, where he learned guitar and turned professional at 17. The examples of Larry Coryell and John McLaughlin led Catherine into jazz-rock; he played with Jean-Luc Ponty's Experience from 1970 to 1972 before taking a year off to study at Boston's Berklee School. Back in Europe in 1973, he founded the band Pork Pie, which recorded into the mid- and late '70s; he also formed a duo with Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and worked with such musicians as Mingus and Stephane Grappelli. If anything, Catherine is best-known in America for his duets with Coryell, which began spontaneously in Berlin in 1976, triggered some lovely duo albums for Elektra, and helped steer Coryell back to the acoustic guitar.

Tracks:

01 - We’ll Find a Way (John Lee) 05:04
02 - Five Thousand Policemen (Philip Catherine) 01:58
03 - Sneezing Bull (Philip Catherine) 07:05
04 - Rene Thomas (Philip Catherine) 04:43
05 - Moss and Weeds (Philip Catherine) 01:15
06 - Homecomings (Philip Catherine) 05:43
07 - Charlotte (Charlie Mariano) 03:52
08 - Noburl (Philip Catherine) 08:05
09 - Isabelle (Philip Catherine) 01:45

Personnel:

Philip Catherine - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, banjo, electric bass, piano, tarang, 12 string guitar
Charlie Mariano - soprano saxophone, alto saxophone
Jasper Van’t Hof - piano
John Lee - bass
Gerry Brown - drums
Rob Franken - string ensemble

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