Nguyên Lê with Terri Lyne Carrington

An adventurous, genre-bending guitarist, France's Nguyên Lê emerged in the 1980s playing an expansive brand of improvisational music heavily steeped in jazz, fusion, and funk, as well as ambient new age and various ethnic traditions from around the globe. His early albums with his band Ultramarine caught the attention of the international jazz community, as did his 1990 debut, Miracles, alongside pianist Art Lande, drummer Peter Erskine, and bassist Marc Johnson. While probing, electric, and electronic-accented jazz is his mainstay, he has explored varied sounds -- from his ow...