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JEFF BECK

Jeff Beck is one of rock's true virtuosos and among its most dynamic instrumentalists. He is not strictly a rock guitarist, having taken much from the world of jazz as well. His style is largely based on improvisation, and he's cut hybrid jazz-rock albums on his own and with jazz-fusion titan Jan Hammer. Beck's career has never followed a straight trajectory. Much like his solos, he zigs and zags wherever inspiration leads him. Beck is a whiz at wresting precision-tooled melodies and explosive atmospherics from the guitar, combining awesome fretboard technique with mastery of effects and pedals.

His quixotic career has included membership in the Yardbirds, two hard-hitting lineups of the Jeff Beck Group and a pair of albums from the mid-Seventies (Blow By Blow and Wired) that set a new standard for instrumental rock. He is one of a relative handful of musicians who have been twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - with the Yardbirds and as a solo artist and bandleader.

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