Laurence Juber - Up Close with LJ (Evening Workshop and FREE lunch-time in-store concert)

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
05:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Elderly Instruments
workshop ($50)

An entertaining, interactive, multi-level presentation with an emphasis on the value of melody, tone and texture in creating a musical experience for the guitarist. Two-time Grammy winning guitarist Laurence Juber freely demonstrates his technique, performing and discussing arrangements and original compositions from his extensive repertoire, covering such topics as: warm ups, playing more efficiently, basic fingerstyle patterns, fundamentals of harmony, altered tunings (including DADGAD). Fingerstyle is the main right hand focus, however flatpicking is covered too. Basic knowledge of music theory is helpful, but not essential. Bring your guitar!

As a young working musician in London, England in the 1970s, Laurence Juber got an extraordinary, life-changing break when Paul McCartney picked him to become Wings’ lead guitarist. Juber spent three years recording and touring with the band. During that time he won a Best Rock Instrumental GRAMMY® for the track "Rockestra" from the Wings album Back To The Egg.

After Wings disbanded in 1981, Juber embarked on a career as a solo artist, composer and arranger, and soon developed a reputation as a world-class guitar virtuoso, being voted #1 by Fingerstyle Guitar magazine. He has released 12 critically acclaimed solo albums, including "LJ Plays the Beatles", "Guitarist" and "One Wing". His latest release "I've Got The World On 6 Strings", is a collection of solo guitar arrangements of tunes by Harold Arlen, composer of 'Over The Rainbow', and 'Stormy Weather' among many other classics.

Juber's DVD "Guitar Noir" is DVD Etc. magazine's top pick for surround-sound 5.1 audio and earned a 2005 CEA "Demmy" award for sonic excellence. His solo guitar arrangement of "The Pink Panther Theme" is featured on the Best Pop Instrumental GRAMMY®-winning album "Henry Mancini-Pink Guitar".

Folios and DVDs of his compositions and arrangements are published by Alfred Publications. The venerable C.F. Martin Company currently offers an ‘LJ’ Signature model guitar and GHS Strings market Juber's Signature guitar strings.

LJ will also be giving a free lunch-time in-store concert at 12:30, open to the public!

Check out recordings we carry featuring Laurence Juber