Frank Vignola

USA

Born: 30 December 1965

Years Active: 90

Genres: Jazz

Styles: Swing, Big Band/Swing, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Jazz-Pop, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion

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An extremely versatile jazz guitarist, Frank Vignola has demonstrated that he is capable of playing everything from fusion and commercial pop-jazz to hard bop, post-bop, and swing. The native New Yorker has a wide variety of influences; everyone from Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and Pat Metheny to Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian has affected his playing in some way. For Vignola, different influences have asserted themselves at different times -- the Reinhardt or Christian influence might be especially prominent in a swing environment, where...

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