Guitar Summit
Steve Morse
Manuel Barrueco
Jorma Kaukonen
Kenny Burrell
October 18 1995, Roberts Hall, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA
Summit is the pick of guitar greats
You like blues guitar but your significant other goes in for jazz, or was it rock. No
problem. The touring Guitar Summit rolls into Rhode Island College tonight,
offering something for every musical taste.
The traveling show, a reprise of a similar one assembled a couple of years ago,
has pulled together the talents of four masters of the guitar, including jazzman
Kenny Burrell and rocker Steve Morse. They will be sharing the stage at Roberts
Auditorium with Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna fame and
Cuban-born classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco, who has made a number of
recent recordings for Angel Records.
This is a different lineup from the first summit, but no less impressive. Morse, who
founded the Dixie Dregs and headed up the Steve Morse Band, is a five-time
Grammy nominee, while Burrell has, during the past three decades, teamed up
with such jazz greats as Billie Holiday, John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie.
Kaukonen got his start in the coffee houses of San Francisco, perfecting an old-
time acoustic picking style that became his trademark. He recorded 10 albums as
a member of Jefferson Airplane, 30 with bassist Jack Cassidy as the duo Hot
Tuna and he still tours the country with a repertoire of some 700 songs.
Each guitarist will perform solo for a half hour, said John Custer of RIC's
Performing Arts Series, and there is a chance that all four performers will get
together to jam at the end of the evening. But that depends on whether the spirit
moves them, said Custer.
The concert starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $17, $15 for seniors and non-RIC
students. Call 456-8194.
- The Providence Journal, 10-18-1995