{"id":3674,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/frank-gambale-raison-detre\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"frank-gambale-raison-detre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3674","title":{"rendered":"Frank Gambale  &#8211; Raison D&#8217;\u00eatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/raisondetre.jpg\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" alt=\"Frank Gambale\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Frank Gambale<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>Raison D&#8217;\u00eatre<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">(Wombat &#8211; 2004) <br \/> by Paula Edelstein<\/font><br \/><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">    WATCH OUT! Frank Gambale&#8217;s Raison D&#8217;\u00eatre. gives you some amazing insight into his instantaneous chemistry with the awesome chops of drummer <b>Billy Cobham<\/b>, and two firebrand bassists <b>Ric Fierabracci<\/b> and <b>Steve Billman<\/b>. This is a two-part offering released by Gambale&#8217;s Wombat Records and it rocks. Gambale rethinks the sound his innovative patented Nouveau Tuning Guitar can handle on such great songs as &#8220;Table For One&#8221; with its 3 Neauveau Vignettes. Gambale conceived all songs and arrangements and uses everything on the musical spectrum from warm tones and textures to a lot of visual harmonies on &#8220;Kaanapali&#8221; and blazing solos on &#8220;Table For One.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>  The quality of this CD must be heard and will soon make an important impression in the future of jazz\/rock fusion. Frank Gambale, who is undoubtedly one of the most innovative guitar Gods on the scene today, is still blazing trails for the novice awe-struck prot\u00e9g\u00e9 but even the most seasoned fusion aficianados will appreciate what Frank Gambale is doing here and his raison d&#8217;\u00eatre.       <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size:14px\">     <br \/>    Reprinted with permission of&#8230;<br \/><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size:14px\">     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundsoftimelessjazz.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/sotjlogo.gif\" width=\"540\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>     <\/font><\/p>\n<p>        <cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/cfinclude><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Gambale Raison D&#8217;\u00eatre(Wombat &#8211; 2004) by Paula Edelstein WATCH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}