Bob
DeVos
Guitarist-Composer-Clinician
"Shifting Sands"
(Savant
Records) was 28 weeks in the top twenty national
air plays
on JazzWeek.com's Top 50
On-Air Chart and on many Top Releases of 2006 lists, most notably Zan
Stewart's 10 Best Jazz CDs of 2006 and WBGO's winter Plays of the Month.
Rick Holland: "Bob
DeVos has released a gem, a wonderful disc.
DeVos, a very modernistic and forward Jazz guitarist, demonstrates
his expertise with the B-3 organ trio in this swinging and modern take on
the genre. Very hip! Thumbs way up!"
Jazz
Radio 247 Spring 2007
ENTIRE
REVIEW
RICK HOLLAND’S EXTENDED INTERVIEW WITH
BOB
Read Bob's interview in
Vintage Guitar Magazine.
A special thank you to WBGO JazzRadio
88.3FM for hosting the CD Release with a special performance at Live
at J&R Music on November 14. The program was broadcast
on Mid-Day Jazz with host Eulis Cathey and streamed on the
internet.
Thank
you for supporting the music,
Bob
DeVos
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Audio
Clips
"DeVos
is a master....His sound is to die for-rich, full, deep, positive, round and
warm..."
Just Jazz Guitar,
Adrian Ingram
"DeVos
is a thinking person’s guitar hero...His solos sound
both calculated and ardent…a full, liquid tone, a brilliant, knowing bebop
player."
Allaboutjazzmagazine,
David
A. Orthmann
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Current
release, "Playing For Keeps" (Savant, Oct. 2007) was in the top
ten (rising to # 6) on JazzWeek.com's Top 50 On-Air Chart for 18 weeks and
appears on many top jazz CDs of 2007 lists and WBGO's Plays of the Month
Jan-April 2008.
Audio
Clips
Reviews
"soulful
lyricism, swift & swinging improvisations, sensuous, insinuating,
.."Wes Is More", the DeVos-penned tribute to Montgomery, provides a
smoking, riffing blues coda." Mike Joyce, JazzTimes, March 2008
Photo:"Shifting
Sands," Gene
Martin/Courtesy HighNote Records;"Playing
For Keeps," Andy Foster/Courtesy HighNote Records
Interior
page photos: Andy Foster
Bob
DeVos endorses Rob Engel guitars, D'Addario Strings and Picks and Undercover
Cases. See contact-links page
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