AUDIO GUITAR LESSONS ON CD-R WITH JIM CAMPILONGO/FREE SAMPLES
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Date: 2006-11-23 15:53:24
. San Francisco.
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JIM CAMPILONGO HEAVEN IS CREEPY 4 STARS! DOWNBEAT DEC 2006
A New York City -based guitarist originally from San Francisco, Campilongo has a free-wheeling musical personality that his new trio album with bassist Tim Luntzel and drummer Dan Rieser captures in all it's breadth. He plays with dash and color, the sound of surprise informing his tone and lines, at complete ease in a country jazz-and-extras style forged out of influences like Jimmy Bryant, Charlie Christian, Roy Buchanan and Jimmie Rivers.As if 10 riveting instrumentals weren't enough, "Cry Me A River" has honest singing by one of his bandmates in the Little Willies, Norah Jones.
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GUITAR WORLD HEAVEN IS CREEPY REVIEW DEC 2006 "EVEN COWBOYS GET THE BLUES"
++ Robert Randolph and Jim Campilongo ride through uncharted territory on two new releases ++
Guitarists Robert Randolph and Jim Campilongo are space cowboys. Not the kind that explore the outer reaches of the cosmos, like Fred Frith or the late Sonny Sharrock, but ones that patrol the back 40 of pop, jazz, blues, r&b, funk and country, looking for holes in the fences.
Campilongo is a telecaster master based just across the Hudson River, in Manhattan, but he came up in San Francisco smitten with such diverse influences as Muddy Waters, the Sex Pistols, Chet Atkins and especially, Roy Buchanan, the mercurial lost soul of the Tele whose vocabulary of tricks included pedal-steellike volume swells, divebomb atonalities, over-the-nut string bending, jet-fueled chromatic runs and heavenly clusters of chiming overtones.
All of Campilongo's Buchananisms appear on "Heaven Is Creepy" but there's a consistent hush in his music that was typically absent in Buchanan's blustery playing. It disappears at times, like when he's thumb-snapping the fat strings on "Monkey In a Movie", making it abundantly clear that, in this snarling jazz-rock-country-fusion, the simian subject is King Kong. But it guides his sensibility in an instrumental version of the chestnut "Cry Me A River" even as it'sd melody gets the alien autopsy treatment, stretched and warped in all directions by his wicked singing bends and staccato phrasing.
There's more than imitation to Campilongo, He has the imagination to reinvent surf music as a melodic successor to western swing in "Mr and Mrs Mouse". And his unrushed approach and generous tone create a comfortable, burnished grace that's distictly all his own. When Jones steps in near the disc's end for a vocal reading of "Cry Me A River", Campilongo's big bare-boned notes are not just the perfect skeleton for her full-blooded phasing. They paint a melody strong and colorful enough to stand alone and, unlike the instrumental take, be recognized.
With inventive playing like this, Randolph and Campilongo are in plenty of praise themselves, no matter which side of the fence they're riding.
-Ted Drozdowski
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GUITAR ONE DECEMBER 2006 JIM CAMPILONGO
++Norah Jone's Sideman Leads Strange and Exciting Trio++
Long master of the Telecaster, Jim Campilongo has a style that can be described as a cross between Chet Atkins and Thelonius Monk. Hailing from from the Bay Area, he began gigging in the late 70's, playing in cover bands, and was soon doing session work; in the 90's, he started his own eccentric country-jazz thing with the 10 Gallon Cats.
Now based in New York, Campilongo has been lending his uncommon taste as a sideman to Norah Jones in the Little Willies. As a leader, meanwhile, Campilongo has just released "Heaven Is Creepy"(Blue Hen), which he recorded with his electric trio-bassist Tim Luntzel and drummer Dan Rieser. The album features 10 original instrumentals, plus one song each with Jones and Martha Wainwright, and is at once off-center and accessible; it should appeal to guitar fans of all stripes.
Adam Perimutter
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EVERY MONDAY- SPECIAL GUESTS - SPECIAL GROUPS - SPECIAL HAPPENINGS
DECEMBER 4 JIM CAMPILONGO ELECTRIC TRIO with Richard Hammond and Tony Mason
DECEMBER 11 JIM CAMPILONGO ELECTRIC TRIO with Richard Hammond and Tony Mason
DECEMBER 18 JIM CAMPILONGO ELECTRIC TRIO with Richard Hammond and Tony Mason
154 Ludlow St NYC ( between Stanton and Rivington ) more info http://www.livingroomny.com/
or call 212-533-7234
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JIM CAMPILONGO ELECTRIC TRIO with Richard Hammond and Tony Mason
THE 55 BAR NYC
SUNDAY DECEMBER 10 9:30pm to 1am
55 Christopher in Greenwich Village
http://www.55bar.com/
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Home For the Holidays!
SAN FRANCISCO SHOW ...
JIMMY & BOBBY (JIM CAMPILONGO AND BOBBY BLACK) with Kenny Owen and Chris Kee
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 20 10PM THE MAKEOUT ROOM
3225 22ND ST.
SAN FRANCISCO
415 647-2888
http://www.makeoutroom.com/
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