Spring Has Sprung! Amazing Guitar CDs!

Non-Stop Infusion Of New Material Fuels 10% Growth

April-May 2003 · April 2003

Welcome to the April edition of Guitar Nine's online magazine. After taking 5 years to reach 1000 titles, in the past few months the number of titles on the site has grown by over 10%. In the past two months, we've added another 38 new releases to the site, including instrumental CDs by Steve Cunningham, Danny Jones Band, Nick Thompson, Michael Harris, Bob Ernst, Rik Wright, Ottmar Liebert, Mermen, Dave And Davis, GasHead, Julien Kasper, Tak Matsumoto, Warren Cuccurullo, Kotikoski/Kleutgens, Theodore Ziras, Shawn Persinger Is Prester John, Jason Becker, Glenn Zervas, Brett Garsed, OHM:, Hybrid Freak Division, Janos Varga Project, Mindflowers, Laszlo Halper, D Sound, Gyarfas Istvan Trio, Folk Ivan, Uthull, Ken Synder, Ozric Tentacles, Paolo Valli, Vince Mendoza and Zoe McCulloch. You can now listen to and order 1120 instrumental releases by 632 different artists. Visit the Instrumental Guitar Showcase to browse and listen to all of these dynamic recordings, or check out our recommendations page. If you've released an instrumental project, get all the details about merchandising through Guitar Nine, and decide if it's right for your music (if you've released a guitar-oriented CD with vocals, click here).

In this issue

24 columns

Guest Columnists

Amazing Grace

Steve Pappas

Steve Pappas is back with his arrangement of one of the most well known hymns of all time.

Guest Columnists

Changes In The Way Music Is Sold Over The Last 30 Years

Christopher Knab

Music industry guru Christopher Knab discusses critical changes in the way recordings are sold and distributed.

Guest Columnists

Concepts For Playing "Outside": Part 1

Martin Behr

Add some excitement to your playing by playing outside the scale.

Guest Columnists

Guitar Tips For The Aspiring Shaman

Jeff Sanders

How to embrace the healing power of music.

Interviews

Interview: Scott Henderson

Martin Schmidt

The main thing over here is, we have big media problems. People that do weirder kind of music, jazz, fusion or blues, there is not a big radio market for it, like there is in other countries. As a result of that, people don¥t get to hear the music and they don¥t show up at the gigs.

Guest Columnists