Album lore

27 Faces of a Broken Heart, released in March 2018 on Ramin Partovi’s label, assembles a remarkable assembly of guitarists interpreting a single composition across twenty-seven variations. The project’s core features Simon Phillips on drums, Jimmy Johnson on bass, and Carl Verheyen on guitar, lending a consistent rhythmic and melodic foundation to each take. These sessions unfold across a palette that touches on blues rock, fusion, and jazz, with nods to big beat and reggae rock. The diversity of guitar voices—among them Brent Mason, Scott Henderson, and Jon Reshard—illuminates the composition’s flexibility within the blues and rock idioms.Each version offers a distinct articulation of the central theme, from the crisp articulation of Mason’s country-tinged phrasing to the more jazz-inflected lines of Henderson. The album serves less as a traditional record and more as an archival document, capturing the nuances of improvisation and interpretation by guitar virtuosos in a controlled studio setting. 27 Faces of a Broken Heart is a study in the elasticity of a single musical idea, anchored by a rhythm section whose pedigree includes decades of session and live work.

Album lore

27 Faces of a Broken Heart, released in March 2018 on Ramin Partovi’s label, assembles a remarkable assembly of guitarists interpreting a single composition across twenty-seven variations. The project’s core features Simon Phillips on drums, Jimmy Johnson on bass, and Carl Verheyen on guitar, lending a consistent rhythmic and melodic foundation to each take. These sessions unfold across a palette that touches on blues rock, fusion, and jazz, with nods to big beat and reggae rock. The diversity of guitar voices—among them Brent Mason, Scott Henderson, and Jon Reshard—illuminates the composition’s flexibility within the blues and rock idioms.Each version offers a distinct articulation of the central theme, from the crisp articulation of Mason’s country-tinged phrasing to the more jazz-inflected lines of Henderson. The album serves less as a traditional record and more as an archival document, capturing the nuances of improvisation and interpretation by guitar virtuosos in a controlled studio setting. 27 Faces of a Broken Heart is a study in the elasticity of a single musical idea, anchored by a rhythm section whose pedigree includes decades of session and live work.