For those unaware, acclaimed jazz player Royce Campbell’s music brings together a range of styles, influences, and technical skill, defining his own, unique approach to jazz guitar.

As a full-time musician for over 40 years, Campbell has recorded music with more than a dozen labels in the U.S. and internationally, with twelve projects making the jazz radio airplay charts--including four reaching the top ten.

Campbell has recorded with many of the greats of the jazz guitar, including legendary Pat Martino, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow, Jimmy Raney, and Cal Collins, Pat Martino, John Abercrombie, Larry Coryell, Mundell Lowe, John Pisano, Charlie Byrd, Gene Bertoncini, and Bucky Pizzarelli.

His brand new album is entitled Vagabond, and all but one of the eleven tracks on it were composed by Campbell, with all of them having been penned by his cousin and mentor, the late Carroll DeCamp.

1. Peepers
2. Gentle Breeze
3. A Sharp Blues
4. Body and Soul
6. Moon Cycle
7. Vagabond
8. Middle Ground
9. Dancing Waterfall
10. Inner Peace
11. Viper

This vibrantly cultured new recording opens on the grandeur of Peepers and the demure Gentle Breeze and then we get the veritably cinematic A Sharp Blues, the languishing beauty of Body and Soul and the sprightly Mambo Puente.

Along next is the ornately sumptuous Moon Cycle which is in turn backed seamlessly by the stridently elegant title track Vagabond, the robustly playful Middle Ground, the gorgeous Dancing Waterfall, the set rounding out on the delicate ballad Inner Peace, closing on the coursing dance floor swing of Viper.

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