BLUE NOTE RECORDS SIGNS GUITARIST LIONEL LOUEKE.
Blue Note Records proudly announces the signing of guitarist Lionel Loueke, one of the brightest and most original young stars in Jazz today. Loueke will enter the studio later this year to record his major label debut, which will be released in early 2008.
The Jazz Journalist Association has also just nominated Loueke for Up & Coming Musician of the Year in their 2007 Jazz Awards. The winner will be announced later this month in New York City.
Pictured at the signing in Blue Note Records’ Manhattan office are (L-R): Bruce Lundvall (CEO & President, Blue Note Label Group), Lionel Loueke, Eli Wolf (Vice President, A&R, Blue Note Records), Zach Hochkeppel (General Manager, Blue Note Records)
Virgin Forest is Lionel Loueke's new CD featuring Herbie Hancock, Cyro Baptista, Gretchen Parlato, Gregoire Maret, Massimo Biolcati and Ferenc Nemeth. Visit the ObliqSound page for more info.

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Lionel Loueke : Voted #1 Category Rising Star 2007 Annual Critics Poll Winners in Downbeat Aug.07 Issue.

 

 
Lionel was featured on the cover of Jazziz Magazine for the month of May. Check out the article by Larry Blumenfeld.
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"Lionel certainly is a unique player and when you hear him it's hard to believe that all of that is coming out of his guitar and from his imagination and what a sweetheart of a human being he is. I'm sure that his humanity is at the root of it all."
-Herbie Hancock

“Lionel is one of the most unique voices in music and possesses great promise for inventing new directions in Jazz.”
– Terence Blanchard