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Neal Schon

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Topic: Neal Schon

Posted By: rushfan4
Subject: Neal Schon
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2013 at 12:24pm

Neal Schon, who is AOR band Journey's guitarist and was a former guitarist for Santana in their earlier years, has released a number of solo albums that I believe could be categorized as jazz albums. I was going to load a YouTube sample for the song Deep Forest from his Beyond the Thunder album as a sample but it is apparently blocked in the USA. His music is atmospheric and somewhat new age-y and centers around his guitar playing, both acoustic and electric. I'm not sure if he would be categorized as fusion or more something like Pop Jazz/Crossover, but think that he might be worthy of consideration.

Thank you,

Scott

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Posted By: js
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2013 at 12:48pm

Thanks, we'll start checking it out.

Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2013 at 12:51pm

I am currently listening to Piranha Blues, and as the title implies it is more Blues-y. Not sure if this one would qualify under Jazz-related Blues or if it is really more straightforward Blues, but it is quite different from Beyond the Thunder and Electric World, his two previous releases.

Posted By: js
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2013 at 12:53pm

No problem, even if certain albums of his aren't all that "jazzy", we can add him for his work on many great jazz-rock and fusion albums. He's definitely part of the bigger picture.

Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2013 at 11:22am

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