By: Robert Silverstein
eaming with keyboardist / programmer Allon Sams and several other players, Les Sabler's 2003 release Bridge The Gap is an instrumental guitar album that crosses several genres yet fits quite comfortably into the George Benson / Wes Montgomery smooth jazz guitar realm. Sabler's '90s albums, Hidden Treasure and Time For Love earned him critical acclaim and he's really hit his stride with his 2003 album Bridge The Gap. Sabler exhibits some fine fretboard finesse on his Gibson and Martin guitars and with Sams handling all the keyboards and programming, Bridge The Gap positively glows. Influences such as Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour and Acoustic Alchemy are in there yet there's something quite original about Sabler's elegant approach to instrumental guitar jazz.
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