Master Guitarist Jesse Cook Coming to the Lincoln, 10/25

Canadian guitarist, composer, and producer Jesse Cook is widely considered one of the most influential figures in nuevo flamenco music, incorporating elements of flamenco rumba, jazz, and many forms of world music. Having sold more than 1.5 million records worldwide, Cook is also a Juno Award winner, Acoustic Guitar Player's Choice Award silver winner in the flamenco category, and a three-time winner of the Canadian Smooth Jazz Award for Guitarist of the Year.

CAPA presents Jesse Cook at the Lincoln Theatre (769 E. Long St.) on Sunday, October 25, at 8 pm. Tickets are $21.50-$39 at the CAPA Ticket Center (39 E. State St.), all Ticketmaster outlets, and www.ticketmaster.com. To purchase tickets by phone, please call (614) 469-0939 or (800) 745-3000.

After two decades of criss-crossing the world in restless pursuit of inspiration, innovation, and collaboration, the Paris-born, Toronto-raised Jesse Cook changed course for his 2015 release and ninth studio album One World. Instead of exotic locales, he stayed home in his studio. Instead of a foreign legion of performers, he relied on his own devices. And instead of exploring cul de sacs of music - flamenco, classical, rumba, world beat, pop, blues, or jazz - he united them.

Despite its humble home-made origins, One World begins another chapter in the multi-tasking artist, composer, and producer's quest by delving into the digital realm. To create the album's emotive melodies, fluid grooves, and rich sonic tapestries, he incorporated technology more than ever before.

What results is the most sonically diverse and distinctive release in Cook's vast and varied catalogue, which has earned him one Juno Award and 11 Juno nominations. On these 11 instrumentals, programmed beats and dusty electronic textures are interwoven with syncopated handclaps, deep dubby basslines and popping percussion. Sitars and violin share the space with synthesizers and sound effects. Notes and rhythms dance playfully back and forth between speakers. Naturally, Cook's masterful guitar work commands center stage with its elegant balance of subtlety, in-the-moment honesty and blazing technical prowess. But here, it also pivots between worlds - past and future, familiar and fresh, acoustic and electronic - redefined by technology like every element of modern life.

www.JesseCook.com

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CAPA presents jesse cook

Sunday, October 25, 8 pm

Lincoln Theatre (769 E. Long St.)

Canadian guitarist, composer, and producer Jesse Cook is widely considered one of the most influential figures in nuevo flamenco music, incorporating elements of flamenco rumba, jazz, and many forms of world music. Having sold more than 1.5 million records worldwide, Cook is also a Juno Award winner, Acoustic Guitar Player's Choice Award silver winner in the flamenco category, and a three-time winner of the Canadian Smooth Jazz Award for Guitarist of the Year.

Tickets are $21.50-$39 at the CAPA Ticket Center (39 E. State St.), all Ticketmaster outlets, and www.ticketmaster.com. To purchase tickets by phone, please call (614) 469-0939 or (800) 745-3000. www.capa.com.

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