Juan Garcia-Herreros
Snow Owl; Art of Contrabass Guitar
Inner Circle Music
www.innercirclemusic.net
By George W. Harris

Colombian-born and Berklee-schooled bassist Juan Garcia-Herros (are there enough hyphens in this sentence?) puts out an amazingly impressive debut of a disc here, displaying the six stringed electric leviathan in a myriad of environs. The disc is bookended by a pair of impressive solo excursions, while the remaining 8 tunes range from Zawinul Syndicate-styled fusion (“Pequeno Samba”)to delicate and melodious folk music (“Song For St. Katherin”). His agility on the electric bass is, well, electrifying! He can give it a Hendrixy fuzz on the multi-textured “Miss Jones Drove Me To School” as well as dig into a deep groove with acoustic bassist Harvie S on “Bulket.” His team of Antonio Sanchez /dr, Roberto Quintero/perc, Klaus Dicbauer/reeds, Luis Leite/g, and Pete Nater/tr-fh has a Mercedes-like turning radius, going around musical corners and stopping on a dime. Walk off homer-when’s he coming to town?!?