Live, he can keep an audience captivated (enraptured?) all night and it is a rare solo performer that can do that. He's played with Tommy Emmanuel, Clive Carroll and loads more, and his arrangements have been covered by loads of people including Sungha Jung. He is known for producing the definitive fingerstyle arrangements of Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson tunes.
I stalked, pestered and nagged him for a while online and ended up booking him some gigs in the UK and putting together a small tour a few years ago. People travelled hundreds of miles to see him play and at Oxford Jazz they had to lay on extra gigs for him to play.
My fee was guitar lessons while he was staying with me, and years later I'm still learning from what he showed me. And as a special treat he showed me how to play his arrangement of Billie Jean - well he let me video a personal lesson of it (all except the moonwalk).
So if you're one of the hundreds of people who ask him for tabs, I have it all on tape.....
Watching Adam and Clive warm up Minor Rag backstage at The Stables in Milton Keynes, is one of the highlights of my guitar-life.
Go see this man.
My Favourite Tracks
Superstition
Chameleon
Rolling With The Ashes
(This was inspired by being stranded in the UK when the Icelandic volcano erupted, and the mad overnight dash by ferry and train to get from my house to Berlin for a gig the following evening).
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