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The Derek Trucks Band

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The Derek Trucks Band was an American group led by slide guitarist Derek Trucks, formed in 1994. The band blended blues, jazz, Southern rock and world-music influences and released albums such as Songlines. Derek Trucks later focused on the Tedeschi Trucks Band (formed with Susan Tedeschi in 2010).

Derek Trucks is the nephew of Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks. The band incorporated blues, jazz (Coltrane references), Indian and other world-music elements in its repertoire. Derek toured with Eric Clapton (2006/2007) and is noted for slide-guitar virtuosity.

Two DeBaser reviews praise The Derek Trucks Band's Songlines and a 2007 live show in Rome. Critics highlight Trucks' slide virtuosity, jazz and world-music influences (Coltrane, Indian music) and the band's strong live performance. Both reviews are enthusiastic and rate the music highly.

For:Fans of blues, jazz, world-music fusion, slide-guitar aficionados and live-music listeners.

 "Davis and Coltrane, not by chance, use modality to recover, within a context until then mainly characterized by the dialectic between European and African musical traditions, elements of the Asian, oriental one: sometimes borrowed - in the case of Davis - from the Spanish civilization, sometimes inspired - as in the case of John Coltrane - by Indian music. But in this, Jazz also manages to achieve a sort of historical reunion with the 'oriental' origins of Western music: Greek and then Gregorian modes, from which the modern major-minor conception was born, in turn come from ancient Asian modes. The curious fact is that the theoretical basis of this work, having great anthropological significance, carried out by Coltrane, was derived by the colored saxophonist from the study of the treatise Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns by Nicholas Slonimsky, a Russian composer and musicologist who emigrated to the United States..."

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 I witnessed the extraordinary concert of a guy who, at 28, can easily be considered a living legend;

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