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Episode 50 sees us with a very special guest. New York based Jazz Guitarist Adam Levy.

To call Adam Levy a "well-traveled musician" would be a hell of an understatement. During a six-year stint touring as a member of Norah Jones' Handsome Band, Levy went round the world several times and maxed out the pages of his passport and then a second one with country stamps and visas. He first played with Jones at the very beginning of the singer's career and went on to be the featured electric guitarist on her wildly successful first three albums and DVDs. Levy held the enviable gig through 2007, ultimately leaving to follow his own path as a performing songwriter.

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Pete Friesen was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. While still playing under the name "Pete Freezin'", he was a member of VO5 with a pre-Skid Row Sebastian Bach. He was a member of Alice Cooper's band from 1989–1991, 1998–2000 and 2002. He played on both the Trash and Hey Stoopid tours, and also appears in the film Wayne's World alongside Cooper, where he memorably asked the question "In fact, isn't Milwaukee an Indian name?"

Friesen left Cooper's band in 1992 and moved to the UK to join Scottish rock band The Almighty. He recorded and toured with the band from 1992 until 1996. The band recorded the top 5 album Powertrippin for Polydor, and Crank and Just Add Life for Chrysalis/EMI records. They opened up Donington festival in 1992 and the following year supported Metallica at Milton Keynes Bowl. They did several headline tours through the UK, as well as tours in Europe, Japan, Australia, U.S.A., and South America. They disbanded in 1996, but the lineup featuring Friesen reformed in January 2006 to play two shows to raise money for leukemia research. These were followed by a couple of short UK tours in 2007 and 2008. A live DVD of the London show from the 2008 and tour has been released.[1]

In 2002, Friesen also did a short stint playing guitar for Iron Maiden's vocalist Bruce Dickinson's solo band; they did a string of summer festival dates throughout Europe. Pete has recorded library music for London based company Brilliant Music. From 2014 to 2016 Pete played guitar in the Ray Davies/Kinks musical "Sunny Afternoon", which ran at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End.

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David Krusen is an American musician. Krusen is best known as the first drummer for the American rock band Pearl Jam and for his work on the band's debut album, Ten. Krusen was also a member of the bands Hovercraft and Unified Theory. He was also the drummer for Candlebox from 1997 to 1999 and from 2015 to 2017.

Krusen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pearl Jam on April 7, 2017

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Kevin Nolan is a Nashville based multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter. Most notably, Kevin has been playing guitar and keys with Lainey Wilson since 2019, performing on the CMA awards, the ACM awards, the CMT awards, Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Today Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Nashville New Years Eve Live, while also appearing in Season 5 of the hit TV show Yellowstone as a band member for Lainey’s character, Abby.

In 2019, Kevin toured extensively with rock/soul artist Jessy Wilson on the heels of her debut solo release Phase. Since moving to Nashville in 2015, Kevin has enjoyed working relationships on stage and in the studio with artists like Steve Everett, Them Vibes, Maggie Rose, Brandon Whyde, Tim Easton, Tommy Scifres, Willie Morrison, Paul Pfau, Jason Martin, Anna Rose, Alex Rahal, Nate Fredrick and others.

Starting in 2008, Kevin and his brother Matt (drums) spent the better part of 10 years as members of The Morrison Brothers Band. The D.C. area Hometown Heroes moved to Nashville together in January of 2015, recording and touring for another 3 years before disbanding in 2018. 

In addition to both being in Lainey Wilson’s band, Kevin and Matt have a rock n’ roll project called Rude Music. Their debut LP Dog Days was digitally released in early 2022. That same year, Kevin released his own jazz trio project Full English, which was recorded in the Spring of 2021.

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Aslan Freeman is a multi instrumentalist, musician and producer based in Nashville TN. He is currently the Guitarist/Keys and MD for country artist Lainey Wilson. 

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John Gregson is a freelance guitarist & multi-instrumentalist based in London.

John’s a ferocious guitarist whose work includes West End shows, studio sessions, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and English National Opera” 

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Steve ‘cut his teeth’ at the tender age of 23 writing for the UK’s best selling guitar magazine Total Guitar. He got the gig after sending in reams of fiendishly widdly guitar music (no doubt inspired by Steve Vai’s Frank Zappa transcriptions). Starting out with product demos, Steve eventually went on to produce the regular rock guitar column and became the ‘go to rock guy’, writing well over 50 columns and more than 1000 transcriptions. Along the way, Steve has interviewed many of the great gunslingers from Marty Friedman and Joe Satriani to Steve Vai, although the his run-in with the late, great (and exceedingly drunk) Dimebag Darrell after a 24 hour bender at the Kerrang awards will forever go down in infamy. Steve went on to far more conservative gigs with Guitar Techniques, Total Accuracy, RGT and Rockschool. As well as transcribing, Steve has toured in the real world with the likes of Ronan Keating, Lily Allen and Mica Paris and also had a past life as a sideman with various stints on TV, radio and sessions with the likes of Westlife, LeAnn Rimes, Alicia Keys, Max Gilkes (Lily Allen) Nayo, Kitayah (Andy Gangadeen). Steve has also been a passionate educator for over 20 years, first at the ACM in Guildford, becoming head of guitar at BIMM Brighton in 2004 and later head of live performance at BIMM London in 2014.

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Take a Fender Jazz bass, mix Herbie Hancock with the musical heritage of Mozart, season in the conservatoire, add a dash of modern technology and marinade for half a lifetime. Step forward Stefan Redtenbacher, all-round funk wizard and leader of his band, the Redtenbacher’s Funkestra.

Born in Salzburg and educated around the world, it didn’t take long for Stefan to find himself drawn to the sound of James Brown, surely an inevitability since his parents met while dancing to ‘Sex Machine’. The relentless and visceral groove of Bootsy Collins and the JB’s surely drew Stefan into the world of funk, and at 14 he bought his first bass. “I was hooked on low rumbles,” he says. “I saved up my money from a summer job and spent it all on a bass.”

Though most popular musicians are self-taught, Stefan took the formal training route, his natural talent and capacity for study taking him from the Vienna Conservatory to Berklee College of Music in Boston, Chichester University and the Institute of Education in the UK where he assembled his Funkestra, purveyors of a deft line in what their leader, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, terms ‘Strudel Funk’.

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Samer is London based Bass player and Musical Director. 

Over the last 10+ years in London Samer has created and hosted the Hoxton Jazz Fusion jam night, is Musical Director for American country artist Sarah Darling, performed with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Take that, Roo Panes, toured the world with various breaking POP artists and performed in many venues and festivals including The Royal Albert Hall, The O2, BBC Proms, Glastonbury, V Festival and SXSW.

In addition to the above Samer has recently started new video platform called LDN Features with business partners Andy Wilder & Matt Allen, supporting artists to bring their music to life with the LDN Features band and filmed live in our studio.

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Scott Tarulli is a multi-faceted musician, composer, and clinician with a focus on funk-rock, jazz, pop, and chamber style. His musicianship has taken him across the USA and even overseas to perform at international shows such as the Pescara Jazz Festival and venues like the Sunset in Paris. 

Tarulli is a professor at the Berklee College of Music and runs a mentorship program that teaches musicians of all levels how to navigate and make a meaningful mark in the music industry. 

Tarulli has been featured in podcasts such as No Guitar is Safe and Apex Lifestyles. In these thought works, he expresses his values on authenticity in a now digitally dominated industry. 

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