NELS CLINE
Nels Cline is one of the most versatile, imaginative and original guitarists active today. Combining breathtaking technique with an informed musical intelligence, Cline displays a mastery of guitar expression that encompasses delicate lyricism, sonic abstractions, and skull-crunching flights of fancy, inspiring Jazz Times to call him, "The world's most dangerous Guitarist".
Cline claims his most valuable music training came from his work with bassist/multi-instrumentalist Eric Von Essen. In the late 1970s, Cline played in the chamber jazz group Quartet Music with his brother, percussionist Alex Cline, violinist Jeff Gauthier and bassist Von essen.
In 1989, the guitarist formed the amped-up Nels Cline trio, a worthy vehicle of for Cline's guitar excursions, wich range from probing, reflective balladry to bracing freeform assaults. The Nels Cline trio recorded 4 CDs, Chest, Ground, sad and Silencer.

Some of the musicians that Nels has performed and/or recorded with include: Juliuis Hemohill, Charlie Haden, Mike Watt, Tim Berne, Mark Dresser, Bobby Bradford, Zeena parkins, Elliott Sharp, Thurston Moore, Gregg Bendian, Mark Isham, The Geraldine Fibbers, Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser, Banyan, Bloc, Firehose, Carla Bozulich and Scott Amendola.
Cline's playing channels the spirit of Coltrane with a rare intensity, wich seems to spring from the same well Jimi Hendrix wouls have drawn from had he survived to realize his post-rock aspirations. S. F. Weekly

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