Frank Vignola

An extremely versatile jazz guitarist of impeccable technique, Frank Vignola has demonstrated that he is capable of playing everything from fusion and commercial pop-jazz to hard bop, post-bop, and swing -- gypsy and otherwise. The native New Yorker has a wide variety of influences; everyone from Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and Pat Metheny to Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian has affected his playing in some way, and these different influences have asserted themselves at different times in his career. He arrived as a bandleader with the album Appel Direct in 1993, with side...