Artist: Jurgen Burdorf

Title: Straight Up Guitar

Year Of Release: 2017

Label: Burdorf Records

Genre: Jazz Rock

Quality: MP3

Total Time: 40:03

Total Size: 100 MB

Tracklist:

1. Going Places (2:43)

2. October (5:36)

3. Feels About Right (3:52)

4. Flying Saucers (4:23)

5. Evening Glow (3:32)

6. Old Town (5:00)

7. New Frontiers (3:36)

8. Tender Logic (4:11)

9. Somethings Buzzing (4:00)

10. Tides Of Time (3:06)

Straight Up Guitar, by Dutch guitarist Jurgen Burdorf (1980) it’s his second album as a leader and composer, after his debut Opening Lines, that was released in 2016.

The music of the Jurgen Burdorf Band is energetic, firmly grounded and smoulders under its surface. It is accessible and always has a tight groove. Jurgen loves all kinds of music and that can be heard in his compositions. Influences of jazz, roots, rock and a little bit of Eastern European folkmusic are mixed into a tasty stew. The band consists of Jurgen Burdorf on guitar, Dutch-Colombian keyboard player Tico Pierhagen (Aguabajo), bassist Hugo den Oudsten (Shirma Rouse, Sabrina Starke) and drummer Léon Klaasse (Powerplay, The Pilgrims).

Until 2015 Jurgen mainly worked as a freelance guitar player. In 2015 he started to write compositions that would end up on his debut album ‘Opening Lines’. The album was released in 2016 en gained an enthousiastic press response. Belgian website Rootstime.be wrote: “Burdorf is not only a gifted guitarist with a nice sound on top of that, but he’s also written 10 skillful and melodious compositions with a lot of variety.” In 2016, with the repertoire of Opening Lines, the band played ao on the known Dutch Jazz Festival Jazz In Duketown.