Ken Silverman (musician)

Ken Silverman is an American guitarist and composer based in New York City in the United States. Silverman has been described as incorporating in his compositions and guitar style elements of jazz, rock, blues, surf and classical. Additionally, he has on occasion experimented with other instruments such as oud, charango, and guitar synthesizer. to a septet featuring trumpeter Roy Campbell, Jr. and Japanese chanting and Shanshin by Kossan (From Emptiness, 2011), to a Solo Guitar recording which also had Oud and Charango (Visionaries, 2012). In recent years, Silverman has concentrated on the Ken Silverman Trio, which focuses on playing his original compositions and includes, in addition to Silverman on guitar, Sam McPherson on double bass and Any O’Neill on drums. The trio has released two albums, Parallel Man (2015), and Guitar Fantasies (2016). Reception Macroscopia: The Free Jazz Collective wrote, in its review, “The sound of the bassoon is most determining of the overall sound, yet it must be said that Silverman’s unconventional guitar-playing and Zlabinger’s hypnotic bass playing are really good. Visionaries: Grego Edwards wrote in his review that " There are nine segments, each