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Lawson Rollins is an award-winning American guitarist and composer from North Carolina noted for his virtuoso fingerstyle technique and melodic compositional skills featured in his recordings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lawson Rollins )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LawsonRollinsBio )〕 His music spans a wide range of genres but is generally classed as Latin Jazz and World Music, with elements of Samba, Bossa nova, Middle Eastern music, Classical guitar, Flamenco and Shred guitar added to the mix. He often employs extremely fast minor scales and diminished scale solo runs to his compositions which are diligently executed in the flamenco ''picado'' style, often blazing arpeggios across the fretboard using his fingers, a technically highly difficult feat for most guitarists. He is best known for his compositions ''The Fire Cadenza'', ''Santa Ana Wind'', ''Flight'', ''Daybreak'', ''Infinita'', and ''Moonlight Samba'' and his albums ''Infinite Chill (the remix sessions)'', ''Traveler'', ''Infinita'', ''Espirito'', ''Elevation'' and ''Full Circle'' which were all critically acclaimed by the jazz and guitar communities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Guitar Player Magazine article )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Infinita )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lawson Rollins )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Review of Espirito )〕 He has reached a wide audience on both radio and the internet. Video performances of ''Locomotion'', ''The Fire Cadenza'' and ''Santa Ana Wind'' have been viewed millions of times on YouTube.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=YouTube )〕 His songs ''Flight'', ''Daybreak'', ''Moonlight Samba,'' and ''Infinita'' have proven popular on jazz radio stations and landed on the ''Billboard'' Top 30 contemporary jazz radio chart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jazz Radio Chart Songs )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Moonlight Samba )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Infinita )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Flight )〕 His album ''Full Circle'' landed on the Billboard Top 10 World Music album sales chart〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BillboardChart )〕 and he was a Top 100 Artist of the Year on radio as ranked by RadioWave. The song ''Shifting Seasons'' from ''Full Circle'' won the USA Songwriting Competition first place award for instrumental song of the year and Lawson was also awarded 3rd place for Overall Artist of the year. In a separate year he received another first place award in the USA Songwriting Competition for the title track of his ''Traveler'' album. The ''Traveler'' album also won two Global Music Awards for instrumentalist and album.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RadioWaveChart )〕 Influenced by Andrés Segovia from his mid-teens, he developed an interest in Jazz, Flamenco, and improvisational Latin and Brazilian guitar styles in his early twenties.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=I. Sabin )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography )〕 After graduating from Duke University he earned a graduate degree from the London School of Economics, then moved to Washington, D.C. in 1998 where he met guitarist Daniel Young (Dan Young) at a local flamenco shop and formed the Latin guitar fusion group Young & Rollins. They released several albums together, including ''Salsa Flamenca'', which landed on the Billboard Chart in 2000, ''Sevilla'' (2001), ''Esperanza'' (2005) and ''Mosaic'' (2006) and played at many major venues such as the Kennedy Center and Sydney Opera House. Rollins was based in Washington until 2007 when he moved to San Francisco.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography )〕 His six solo albums ''Infinite Chill (the remix sessions)'', ''Traveler'', ''Infinita'', ''Espirito'', ''Elevation'', and ''Full Circle'' are characterized by an eclectic mix of Middle Eastern, Brazilian, and Arabic music fused with Spanish guitar and backed by an all-star cast of musicians from around the world including Brazilian singer Flora Purim, percussionist Airto Moreira, Cuban drummer Horacio Hernandez, Shahin Shahida of Shahin and Sepehr, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Iranian kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor, Grammy-winning violinist Charlie Bisharat, and electric guitarist Buckethead, among others.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AMG review )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography )〕 Lawson is a voting member of NARAS, a member of A2IM, and owner of the independent world music record label Infinita Records.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NARAS member )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Infinita Records )〕 ==Discography== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lawson Rollins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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