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Jazz guitarist KARL EVANGELISTA talks to Chris Searle about the impetus behind his new album

OUTSTANDING free guitarist Karl Evangelista, of Filipino descent, was born in California in 1986.

His early inspirations were Hendrix, Cream and “the boundary-breaking music” of Coltrane, Ornette and Ayler which led him to “detect a conceptual overlap between the socially orientated improvisation of psychedelic guitar and the extended improvisation of free jazz.

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