Some of Dan’s early work from the 1970’s has been included on the recent compilation, Wayfaring Strangers-Guitar Soli on the NUMERO label, # 018.
Dan Lambert’s guitar playing is an entertaining blend of everything he has listened to and studied - jazz, rock, world music from other cultures and countries - you’ll find it all in his playing. He has 4 acoustic instrumental cd’s out on the COORDINATE RECORDS label, The Clearing, Plaids, Melodies/Improvisations, and his latest, The Blue Hand. James Sallis, in the book THE GUITAR IN JAZZ writes, ”Dan Lambert’s playing is highly individualistic - sometimes relaxed and in a groove, often full of stabbing odd turns - and immediately recognizeable.”
Dan got his start in suburban Chicago and later at the University of Illinois, playing in rock bands, folk groups, and jazz ensembles. Upon moving to Kent, Ohio, he started playing solo at every “college, folk club, and vegetarian restaurant” in Northeast Ohio. El Paso, Texas has been his home for the last 31 years. He performs regularly at venues in West Texas and New Mexico along with touring. His recordings are heard all over the US and in Europe. His music can be found on NPR’s All Things Considered.
In the spring of 2002 Dan formed the band, The Dan Lambert Trio, an all instrumental unit featuring bass and drums, as well as Dan’s guitar. The dialog (trialog?) between the players as they dart and weave, support and inspire, turning tunes upside down and inside out, is a marvel to experience. Jason Blackmond plays bass, and Bob Lail is on percussion.
The music is hard to peg; instrumental, jazzy, definitely has some rock to it, exciting, and any song is fair game. The band improvises around the structure of The Beachboys’ In My Room or Iron Butterfly’s In A Gadda Da Vida as if they’re playing a jazz standard. Listen to them go from the BeeGees’ I Started A Joke, to Dan’s Telepathy, then roar into the James Bond Theme...no wonder they play so much around here!
You can catch them at the Mesa Street Grill, The Magic Pan, and the Riviera Cantina in El Paso, as well as the St Clair Winery & Bistro and the High Desert Brewing Co in Las Cruces. They also play tons of parties, openings, you name it. They have been regulars at What’s Up magazine’s Best of the Best party the last handful of years, and play often at UTEP, NMSU, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Adair Margo Gallery, the Las Cruces Museum of Art, and at El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce functions.
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