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Biography
Use dmy dates|date=February 2012Use Australian English|date=February 2012Refimprove|date=August 2009Infobox musical artist | name = Frank Gambale| image = Frank Gambale in Montréal.jpg| caption =| image_size =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|df=yes|1958|12|22| death_date =| origin = Canberra, Australia " http://www.frankgambale.com/frank_gambale_bio.html Biography". frankgambale.com. Retrieved 2012-01-23.| instrument =| genre = Jazz fusion , smooth jazz , jazz , instrumental rock | occupation =| years_active = 1984–present| label =| associated_acts = Chick Corea Elektric Band , Vital Information , GHS, Return to Forever | website = http://www.frankgambale.com/ frankgambale.com| notable_instruments = Frank Gambale is an Australia n jazz fusion guitarist . He has released eleven studio album s over a period of more than two decades, and is renowned for his use of the sweep picking and economy picking techniques.
Recording career
Gambale graduated from Guitar Institute of Technology|GIT in Hollywood, with Student of the Year honors. He also taught there from 1984 to 1986.Hallebeek, Richard (2001-10-20). " http://www.richardhallebeek.com/interviews/gambale01.php Frank Gambale (2001)". richardhallebeek.com. Retrieved 2012-01-23. After graduation, he played the jazz club circuit with his own band and in 1985 released his first studio album, Brave New Guitar , through Legato Records (owned by Mark Varney, brother of Shrapnel Records founder Mike Varney ) in what was to be a three-album contract. In that same year, he toured with Jean-Luc Ponty and shortly afterwards began a six-year stint with the Chick Corea Elektric Band in 1987. During his time with the latter, he has participated in five albums and shared a Grammy Award (with two nominations).
In the 1980s, he released two studio albums and a Live& #33; (Frank Gambale album)|live album . In 1988, he released Monster Licks & Speed Picking , the first of many instructional videos. An endorsement deal with Ibanez guitars resulted in the 1987 debut of the Frank Gambale Model (FGM) signature series, modeled after the Ibanez S aber. Yamaha Corporation|Yamaha also manufactured a signature guitar after he left Ibanez later in the 1990s. He signed with Victor Entertainment in 1989 as part of a five-album agreement, and released Thunder from Down Under the following year.
The 1990s began for Gambale with a pair of albums— Truth in Shredding (1990) and Centrifugal Funk (1991)—as part of The Mark Varney Project. These were collaborations with fellow guitarists Allan Holdsworth , Brett Garsed and Shawn Lane , in a jazz fusion supergroup (music)|supergroup concept put together by Mark Varney.Monk, Laurie (2010-06-13). " http://www.truthinshredding.com/2010/06/mark-varney-legato-interview-with.html Truth In Shredding: Mark Varney: Legato interview with Laurie Monk". Retrieved 2010-07-04. Around this time, he served as head of the guitar department of the Los Angeles Music Academy. In the 2000s, having parted ways with Victor, Gambale started his own record label named Wombat Records after purchasing his entire Legato discography with the intention of reissuing it himself. A live double album , Resident Alien – Live Bootlegs , was released in 2001, along with Imagery Suite ; a duet featuring classical guitar ist Maurizio Colonna. He also released a studio album, Coming to Your Senses , on guitarist Steve Vai 's Favored Nations label in 2000.
Gambale has also been a member of the jazz fusion band Vital Information since 1988, with the group consisting of keyboardist Tom Coster , drummer Steve Smith (musician)|Steve Smith and bassist Baron Browne . Furthermore, in a group known as GHS, he has released three collaborative albums with Steve Smith and bassist Stu Hamm through Mike Varney's jazz -orientated label, Tone Center Records . In addition to concert recordings, he released an instructional DVD called Concert with Class in 2003. A reunion with Chick Corea came about in 2004, and Gambale subsequently toured with the Chick Corea Elektric Band. In 2006 and 2010, he released two all-jazz studio albums in the form of Natural High (Frank Gambale album)|Natural High and Natural Selection (Frank Gambale album)|Natural Selection , respectively. In 2011, he endorsed the Carvin Corporation|Carvin FG1, a thin semi-acoustic guitar|hollow body guitar made in the US.
Frank Gambale Persondata | NAME =Gambale, Frank | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =1958-12-22 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Gambale, Frank Category:1958 births Category:Australian jazz guitarists Category:Australian people of Italian descent Category:Jazz fusion guitarists Category:Jazz-rock guitarists Category:Living people Category:Lead guitarists
