After exploring the pop culture of the 1960s/1970s in Songs of Freedom (ACT Music, 2011) and paying big-band tribute to Pink Floyd's iconic album on Celebrating The Dark Side of the Moon (ACT Music, ...

Nguyen Le's album Saiyuki contains some of the best music I heard at GlobalFEST, held on Jan. 10 at New York City's Webster Hall. There, he cut a small figure, but he generated a mighty ...

For over twenty years, Nguyên Lê has collaborated with a growing cadre of like-minded musicians—mostly Paris-based, where the guitarist of Vietnamese origins resides—building a body of work that is, ...

Nguyên Lê is amazing. His guitar work is unique, inspiring, technically challenging, fired with soul, jazzy, rocking, and drips of fusion yet goes even further. You will hear world music ...

It might seem perverse to begin a review of a Nguyên Lê release with the observation that there is "too much fusion" on it, as, increasingly since the late 1990s, it is to the fusion mast that the ...

The French Institute in HCM City will host Hanoi Duo music show featuring popular Vietnamese French guitarist Nguyen Le and local composer Ngo Hong Quang at Idecaf in HCM City’s District 1 on March 1.

For his ninth record, French-Vietnamese guitarist Nguyên Lê renews musical relationships with two artists who appeared on his first two releases—woodwind multi-instrumentalist Paul McCandless from ...

It's all too rare that an artist appears, seemingly out of nowhere, fully matured and with a distinctively personal musical conception. While guitarist Nguyên Lê—Parisian born of Vietnamese ...

1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be); Manic Depression; Are You Experienced; Purple Haze; Burning of the Midnight Lamp; If 6 Was 9; Voodoo Child (Slight Return); South Saturn Delta; Up From the Skies; ...

It's a bold concept; take Pink Floyd's iconic Dark Side of the Moon (Harvest, 1973) and reinterpret it in a big band jazz setting. With upwards of forty million copies sold, every note, every nuance ...