LAWSON ROLLINS
''TRAVELER''
FEBRUARY 17 2015
60:33
1 Traveler 03:53
2 Barcelona Express 05:24
3 Cafe Paris 03:38
4 Berlin Bossa 04:14
5 Meeting in Madrid 03:55
6 Marching West 04:47
7 Journey Home 05:15
8 Beyond the Bayou 06:28
9 Across the Moors 04:45
10 Metropolis 08:14
11 Ancient City 04:53
12 City Electric 05:01
All Tracks By Rollins
Lawson Rollins/Guitar
Matt Tudor/Guitar
Dominic Carnardella/Keyboard, Piano
Joshua Levy/Piano, Horn Arrangement
Charlie Bisharat/Violin
Mads Tolling/Violin
Karl Hunter/Saxophone
Dave Bryant/Percussion, Drums
Andrew Reissiger/Charango
Ben Devitt/Trombone
Ron Blake/Trumpet
Karl Hunter/Saxophone
Randy Tico/Bass Guitar
Cameron Stone/Cello
OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY
Few artists inhabit their music as seamlessly as award-winning guitarist and composer Lawson Rollins. He plays his instrument with a soulful intensity that combines the stimulating rhythmic drive of rumba, salsa, and samba with graceful melodic finesse and free-flowing improvisational flair. In the past few years, Lawson has become one of the best-known jazz/world/fusion guitarists in the country and developed a worldwide following. His albums have spawned several Billboard Top 30 contemporary jazz radio hits and won him a growing fan base attracted by his melodic, exhilarating solos and exotic, cross-genre instrumentation performed by internationally renowned musicians. Sensational videos like "Locomotion," a jaw dropping display of his electrifying speed and gift for merging rhythm and melody, have attracted millions of broadcast television and internet viewers, including nearly 8 million hits on YouTube alone.
Lawson's critically acclaimed, genre defying solo albums - INFINITA, ESPIRITO, ELEVATION, and FULL CIRCLE - have landed high on the Billboard Top 30 contemporary Jazz radio charts and produced a Billboard #1 song - "Moonlight Samba" from ESPIRITO. The recent album FULL CIRCLE hit the Billboard Top 10 World Music Album Sales Chart and earned Lawson two awards from the prestigious USA Songwriting Competition, including first place for best instrumental song of the year for the track 'Shifting Seasons.' The album's massive radio airplay landed Lawson on the Top 100 Contemporary Jazz Artists of the Year chart. He also served as "Celebrity Guest DJ" on Sirius-XM Radio, hosting a 1 hour show, broadcast to 26 million subscribers, a testament to his enduring appeal on radio.
His albums feature numerous collaborations with artists from around the globe, including Grammy Award winners and nominees like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Charlie Bisharat, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Mads Tolling, Kayhan Kalhor and Horacio Hernandez. An ever growing cast of eclectic, notable artists continues to expand his world-fusion sound, with musicians such as Buckethead, William Aura, and Shahin Shahida contributing to the mix.
In his globally-inspired music, Lawson incorporates the propulsive drive of Afro-Cuban rhythms with a style based on the music of Spain, India, Persia and the Arab world. "All music has a hybrid quality," Lawson believes. "Thousands of years of travel, trade and communication between cultures created new forms of musical expression. The Spanish guitar embodies this with its ties to the Arab oud, the Persian tar, even the sitar, so weaving those strands together seems natural to me."
Lawson's recordings have earned him rave reviews in the media. Guitar Player Magazine praises his "ungodly classical chops...dazzling speed, uncanny accuracy and beautifully delicate touch."
His new album, entitled TRAVELER, is set for a February 17th, 2015 release and features an all-star cast of musicians, including multi-Grammy Award winners Mads Tolling and Charlie Bisharat and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy bandleader Scotty Morris, to name a few.
BIOGRAPHY
by Matt Collar/AMG
A virtuoso guitarist, Lawson Rollins plays with fast, classically proficient finger-style technique and a cross-genre aesthetic that brings together elements of Latin jazz, Brazilian music, Eastern music, flamenco, and some rock sounds. A native of North Carolina, Rollins studied at Duke University before earning his graduate degree from the London School of Economics. In 1998, Rollins relocated to Washington, D.C., where he formed the Latin fusion duo Young & Rollins with guitarist Dan Young. The duo released several well-received albums, including 2000's Salsa Flamenca, 2001's Sevilla, 2005's Esperanza, and 2006's Mosaic. In 2006, Rollins moved to San Francisco to pursue a solo career. He released his debut solo album, Infinita, in 2008. Two years later, he returned with Espirito. Elevation followed in 2011, and in 2013 Rollins delivered his fourth solo album, Full Circle.
OFFICIAL SITE
2 Barcelona Express 05:24
3 Cafe Paris 03:38
4 Berlin Bossa 04:14
5 Meeting in Madrid 03:55
6 Marching West 04:47
7 Journey Home 05:15
8 Beyond the Bayou 06:28
9 Across the Moors 04:45
10 Metropolis 08:14
11 Ancient City 04:53
12 City Electric 05:01
All Tracks By Rollins
Lawson Rollins/Guitar
Matt Tudor/Guitar
Dominic Carnardella/Keyboard, Piano
Joshua Levy/Piano, Horn Arrangement
Charlie Bisharat/Violin
Mads Tolling/Violin
Karl Hunter/Saxophone
Dave Bryant/Percussion, Drums
Andrew Reissiger/Charango
Ben Devitt/Trombone
Ron Blake/Trumpet
Karl Hunter/Saxophone
Randy Tico/Bass Guitar
Cameron Stone/Cello
OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY
Few artists inhabit their music as seamlessly as award-winning guitarist and composer Lawson Rollins. He plays his instrument with a soulful intensity that combines the stimulating rhythmic drive of rumba, salsa, and samba with graceful melodic finesse and free-flowing improvisational flair. In the past few years, Lawson has become one of the best-known jazz/world/fusion guitarists in the country and developed a worldwide following. His albums have spawned several Billboard Top 30 contemporary jazz radio hits and won him a growing fan base attracted by his melodic, exhilarating solos and exotic, cross-genre instrumentation performed by internationally renowned musicians. Sensational videos like "Locomotion," a jaw dropping display of his electrifying speed and gift for merging rhythm and melody, have attracted millions of broadcast television and internet viewers, including nearly 8 million hits on YouTube alone.
Lawson's critically acclaimed, genre defying solo albums - INFINITA, ESPIRITO, ELEVATION, and FULL CIRCLE - have landed high on the Billboard Top 30 contemporary Jazz radio charts and produced a Billboard #1 song - "Moonlight Samba" from ESPIRITO. The recent album FULL CIRCLE hit the Billboard Top 10 World Music Album Sales Chart and earned Lawson two awards from the prestigious USA Songwriting Competition, including first place for best instrumental song of the year for the track 'Shifting Seasons.' The album's massive radio airplay landed Lawson on the Top 100 Contemporary Jazz Artists of the Year chart. He also served as "Celebrity Guest DJ" on Sirius-XM Radio, hosting a 1 hour show, broadcast to 26 million subscribers, a testament to his enduring appeal on radio.
His albums feature numerous collaborations with artists from around the globe, including Grammy Award winners and nominees like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Charlie Bisharat, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Mads Tolling, Kayhan Kalhor and Horacio Hernandez. An ever growing cast of eclectic, notable artists continues to expand his world-fusion sound, with musicians such as Buckethead, William Aura, and Shahin Shahida contributing to the mix.
In his globally-inspired music, Lawson incorporates the propulsive drive of Afro-Cuban rhythms with a style based on the music of Spain, India, Persia and the Arab world. "All music has a hybrid quality," Lawson believes. "Thousands of years of travel, trade and communication between cultures created new forms of musical expression. The Spanish guitar embodies this with its ties to the Arab oud, the Persian tar, even the sitar, so weaving those strands together seems natural to me."
Lawson's recordings have earned him rave reviews in the media. Guitar Player Magazine praises his "ungodly classical chops...dazzling speed, uncanny accuracy and beautifully delicate touch."
His new album, entitled TRAVELER, is set for a February 17th, 2015 release and features an all-star cast of musicians, including multi-Grammy Award winners Mads Tolling and Charlie Bisharat and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy bandleader Scotty Morris, to name a few.
BIOGRAPHY
by Matt Collar/AMG
A virtuoso guitarist, Lawson Rollins plays with fast, classically proficient finger-style technique and a cross-genre aesthetic that brings together elements of Latin jazz, Brazilian music, Eastern music, flamenco, and some rock sounds. A native of North Carolina, Rollins studied at Duke University before earning his graduate degree from the London School of Economics. In 1998, Rollins relocated to Washington, D.C., where he formed the Latin fusion duo Young & Rollins with guitarist Dan Young. The duo released several well-received albums, including 2000's Salsa Flamenca, 2001's Sevilla, 2005's Esperanza, and 2006's Mosaic. In 2006, Rollins moved to San Francisco to pursue a solo career. He released his debut solo album, Infinita, in 2008. Two years later, he returned with Espirito. Elevation followed in 2011, and in 2013 Rollins delivered his fourth solo album, Full Circle.
OFFICIAL SITE