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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File next to: <b>Michael Hedges<\/b>, <b>Joe Satriani<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Generally associated with Hawaiian music and culture, in recent years the ukulele has gained wider acceptance and credibility as a musical instrument suitable for other genres. To the uninitiated, the term \u201cukulele virtuoso\u201d might seem a kind of joke, but there’s no doubt as to Shimabukuro’s astounding facility on the tiny four-stringed instrument. He’s quite prolific: <i>Nashville Sessions<\/i> is his 22<sup>nd<\/sup> solo album since 2002 (though half of those are Japan-only releases). This latest release finds him fronting a power trio, and \u2013 thanks to inventive and somewhat unprecedented use of effects \u2013 he often sounds more like an electric guitar shredder fronting a jazz-rock band. The interplay between him, bassist <b>Nolan Verner<\/b> and drummer <b>Evan Hutchings<\/b> is often thrilling; Shimabukuro allows the rhythm section space to display their chops, and ambitious tunes like \u201c6\/8\u201d show the passion, grace and fire of the trio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Michael Hedges, Joe Satriani Generally associated with Hawaiian music and culture, in recent years the ukulele has gained wider acceptance and credibility as a musical instrument suitable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,42,49,62,65],"tags":[2920],"class_list":["post-11914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-instrumental","category-jazz","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-jake-shimabukuro","cat-40-id","cat-42-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11915,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions\/11915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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