Ken Wessel: Links
Musicians
- Harmolodic
- Ornette Coleman's website. Check out the home page, now thats harmolodics! Also some cool stuff inside.
- Rob Waring
- One of my favorite musicians and people. Vibraphonist, percussionist, composer. An old friend and compatriot, now living in Norway.
- Jerome Harris
- Guitarist and bassist and all around cool guy.
- Joel Frahm
- A pretty damn good saxophonist, when all is said and done.
- Jamie Fox - guitarist
- Great friend and guitarist (or great guitarist and friend).
- Rob Garcia
- One of my favorite drummers, composers and bandleaders...
- Steve Gorn
- Great musician, bansuri, woodwind player...and wonderful cat
- Debashish Bhattacharya
- Slide guitar virtuoso and one of the gems of Indian classical and improvised music...plays some beautiful Hawaiian tunes too.
- Lou Grassi
- My upstairs neighbor and a beautiful drummer. Also watches our cat, Blotch, occasionally.
- Adam Rudolph
- Percussionist, composer, bandleader, philosopher of rhythm
- Sam Bardfeld
- Burning violinist, composer, and raconteur.
- Karl Berger
- Composer, vibraphonist, pianist, arranger and founding member of Creative Music Studio in Woodstock. A great musical spirit.
- Virginia Mayhew
- Saxophonist/composer and hip woman, Virginia's site.
- Susan Pereira
- An old friend who is a soulful singer, pianist and composer (brazilian/jazz).
Assorted
- D'addario Strings
- A warm, round, dependable and long- lasting guitar string. I use them on my guitars.
- Allen Amplifiers
- David Allen makes some beautiful sounding handwired tube amps.
- Godlyke
- These guys distribute a bunch of great effects pedals, like Guyatone, Maxxon, etc.
- Maine Jazz Camp
- Jazz camp run by Paul Lichter and Christine Correa up in Farmington, Maine. Some of my favorite players come up to teach.
- National Guitar Workshop
- Guitar Workshop - I've taught at the camp in Connecticut a handful of times. Lots of guitarists, not for the plectraphobes. Some great players and a lot of fun.
- Master Guitar Symposium - DVD
- A DVD with guitar playing, instruction, practice tips and other things - including Gene Bertoncini, Roni Ben-Hur, Bruce Arnold and me. 3 duos: Gene/Bruce, Roni/Bruce, KW/Bruce - performing some tunes and talking about various aspects of music, plectrum and string theory. Filmed at the NYU Guitar Workshop.