Andy Summers

小簡介
Summers那偉大的演奏給了后來者深遠(yuǎn)的影響，他的吉他編配非常精彩，爵士功底深厚的他具有開創(chuàng)性的在搖滾形式的音樂中大量使用脫拍和弦和開放弦延伸和弦，掛留和弦和增9和弦，在節(jié)奏上他引入了Ska和Reggae元素，經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)不規(guī)則的切分。在音效上他更是非常具有啟發(fā)意義，他的吉他演奏思路帶有明顯的鍵盤色彩，他大量使用不規(guī)則和弦而增加和弦外音，使和弦與單音連接在一起，形成一種之前單吉他不能制造的音效，如同地毯一般，多而厚，因為和弦里穿插的大量外音，音效十分閃爍而華麗，為歌曲營造了幾乎完美的伴奏。
正因如此Summers無疑更偏愛節(jié)奏吉他的演奏，他最愛的是增9度，音效微妙的不和諧之中帶有非常美妙的空間感和搖擺感，營造出來的“空間吉他”式的伴奏配合硬朗的貝司和鼓組，幾乎是無法超越一般的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)“新浪潮”地標(biāo)性最高杰作。
吉他仿佛有了生命和思想一樣，既不是在伴奏也不是在領(lǐng)奏，似乎是在和歌手一起吟唱，又似乎是在給歌手的聲音撐起一個巨大而豐富的伴奏環(huán)境－－Summers的原則就是這樣，給音樂“呼吸”的空間。
Summers前無古人的偉大創(chuàng)舉引發(fā)了無數(shù)后來者的學(xué)習(xí)。尤其是他對節(jié)奏吉他演奏的重新定義，甚至有很多人都這么要求自己的節(jié)奏吉他：我要好的伴奏，就是像Summers一樣的伴奏。這其中的后輩里包括著名的Television，而Television就是日后同樣著名的U2樂隊的The Edge最早的學(xué)習(xí)對象。
While Andy Summers is best known as the guitarist of the Police, he has since forged a successful and acclaimed solo career with new age-influenced contemporary instrumental music that, like his work with Sting and company, draws on his love for jazz and his fascination with creating instrumental textures. Born Andrew James Somers in Poulton-Fylde, Lancashire, England, on December 31, 1942, the young Somers (who later changed his surname to the more easily spelled Summers) moved to Bournemouth as a child and, upon taking up the guitar at 14, immersed himself in the local jazz scene. By 16, he was playing in local clubs and coffeehouses, where he was noticed by Zoot Money. Somers was invited to join Moneys Big Roll Band, with whom he appeared on the live album The All Happening Zoot Moneys Big Roll Band at Klooks Kleek. Money eventually changed the band into a psychedelic outfit called Dantalians Chariot, and when that project dissolved in early 1968, Somers briefly signed on with the Soft Machine before rejoining Money in a revamped Animals lineup for the LP Love Is. When that imploded in 1969, Somers studied classical guitar and composition at UCLA for four years, in the meantime giving guitar lessons, gigging with a local Latin-rock band, and acting with various theater troupes. Upon his return to England in 1973, Summers became something of a journeyman, touring in the backing bands of Neil Sedaka, Kevin Coyne, Kevin Ayers, and David Essex.
Summers met Sting and Stewart Copeland in 1977 while playing with a band called Strontium 90. The two asked Summers to join their full-time project, the Police; together, the trio gradually developed a style centered around jazz- and reggae-influenced pop/rock, and Stings strong bass lines allowed Summers to supply subtle sonic textures and colors on his guitar, and to experiment with various effects. Summers first stepped out on his own in 1982, teaming with King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp on the jazz- and Eastern-tinged I Advance Masked. It was followed in 1984 with Bewitched, another Summers/Fripp collaboration, around the same time the Police officially disbanded.
Eager to establish himself in musical realms outside of rock & roll, Summers did a bit of movie soundtrack work (Down and Out in Beverly Hills, 2010, etc.) before returning to recording, this time on his own. His first solo effort, 1987s harmonically intricate yet pop-oriented XYZ, met with poor critical response. Its follow-up, 1988s Mysterious Barricades, was more successful, emphasizing Summers textural sensibilities on its jazzy, new age-influenced compositions. A string of albums in this style followed through the 90s, notably The Golden Wire (1989), Charming Snakes (1991), World Gone Strange (1991), Invisible Thread (1993), and The Last Dance of Mr. X (1997). For 1998s Strings of Desire, he teamed with South American guitar virtuoso Victor Biglione; 1999s Green Chimneys: Music of Thelonious Monk found Summers working with a larger ensemble than usual for him, as well as his first collaboration with Sting since the Police (on a version of Round Midnight). Following the success of his Monk-themed album, the guitarist put together an album of interpretations of compositions by Charles Mingus called Peggys Blue Skylight, released in late 2000. Earth + Sky appeared four years later. Summers continued to record thereafter, releasing First You Build a Cloud in 2007. He also participated in the Police reunion tour that same year.