Carlos Johnson September 26, 2008

Guitarist Carlos Johnson is a fleet-fingered picker who wraps a shimmering B.B. King-like timbre around asymmetrical melody lines; he augments this breezy virtuosity by laying sharp staccato notes amid his leads to keep things from getting too smooth. Johnson's repertoire runs the gamut from jazz classics like Ellington's 'Take the 'A' Train' to originals