MARK
DOYLE
Guitar Noir
Free Will
Having knocked around the music
scene for the past twenty five years, N.Y.-based guitarist
Mark Doyle has just released his long-awaited solo album.
Having previously worked with artists like Hall & Oates, Meatloaf
and Bryan Adams, Doyle's guitar chops are given a real workout
on Guitar Noir. Assisted by several outstanding players, Doyle
covers music from Henry Mancini, Dave Grusin and Marvin Hamlisch
and also shows his affinity for jazz icons such as Thelonious
Monk and Ornette Coleman. Each of the twelve guitar-based
instrumentals here has something to offer with the obvious
standouts being Doyle's stirring cover of the "Perry Mason
Theme" by composer Fred Steiner, a lush rearrangement of the
Brian Wilson classic "Warmth Of The Sun", a hypnotic set-closing
rendition of Dimitri Tiompkin's "Wild Is The Wind" and a haunting
solo guitar treatment of "The Way We Were". Doyle also proves
his own composing skills on the sinister sounding title track.
Bridging the gap between soundtracks, jazz and rock is no
easy task, yet in the hands of Mark Doyle & Co., the results
are engaging and often spectacular. www.markdoyle.com - Robert
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