“Stein has the touch.”
Layla Macoran – Jazz Inside New York
“He’s in an elite class, a mere handful of jazz guitarists who consistently put taste above chops and flash.”
Wayne Everett Goins – Professor of Music, Jazz Director at Kansas State University
John Stein
Lifeline
Release show at Scullers Jazz Club
Celebrate the release of
Lifeline with
John Stein on November 4, 2022 7p at
Scullers Jazz Club in Boston.
John has a musical career as one of the most diverse jazz guitarists of his generation, and will perform selected highlights from his varied discography that captures his eclectic spirit with his honey-toned guitar effortlessly guiding listeners across several decades of brilliance.
After retiring from a longtime career at Berklee College of Music where he held a professorship since 1999, and upon recently contracting a rare autoimmune disease, the esteemed jazz veteran decided to synthesize his remarkable body of recorded work.
The recorded output surveyed on this compilation spans more than twenty years, from Stein’s 1999’s Green Street to the most recent recording, 2021’s Serendipity.
Throughout this assortment of releases, Stein has been consistently regaled for his expansiveness, turning heads with his emotive, subtle, grooving, and precise stylistic excursions.
With dazzling guitar playing, notable contributions from the side musicians, creative arrangements, and compositions that are at once sophisticated and memorable, the full scope of John Stein’s instrumental and compositional prowess is on display on this prodigious, varied, and musically rewarding retrospective.