Allan Holdsworth

Allan Holdsworth () var ein engelsk gitarist og låtskrivar. Han gav ut tolv studioalbum som soloartist og har spelt inn mange forskjellige stilartar gjennom ein perioden på fire tiår. Han var mest kjend for arbeidet sitt innan jazzfusion. Som gitarist var han kjend for å vera ein avansert og innovativ gitarist, og er av mange rocke- og instrumentale gitaristar omtalt som ei inspirasjonskjelde, som til dømes Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Greg Howe, Shawn Lane, Richie Kotzen, John Petrucci og mange andre. Frank Zappa kalla ein gong Holdsworth «ein av dei mest interessante gitaristane på jorda».

Diskografi

Studioalbums 
 1976: Velvet Darkness
 1982: I.O.U.
 1983: Road Games (EP)
 1985: Metal Fatigue
 1986: Atavachron
 1987: Sand
 1989: Secrets
 1992: Wardenclyffe Tower 1993: Hard Hat Area 1996: None Too Soon 2000: The Sixteen Men of Tain 2001: Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie 2005: The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock (compilation)

 Konsertalbum 
 1997: I.O.U. Live 2002: All Night Wrong 2003: Then! Samarbeid 
 1980: The Things You See – med Gordon Beck
 1988: With a Heart in My Song – ,med Gordon Beck
 1990: Truth in Shredding – med Frank Gambale/The Mark Varney Project
 1996: Heavy Machinery – med Jens Johansson og Anders Johansson
 2009: Blues for Tony – med Alan Pasqua, Chad Wackerman og Jimmy Haslip (konsertalbum)

 Andre album 
 1969: '''Igginbottom's Wrench – 'Igginbottom
 1972: Belladona – Nucleus
 1973: Tempest – Tempest
 1975: Bundles – Soft Machine
 1975: Believe It – The New Tony Williams Lifetime
 1976: Million Dollar Legs – The New Tony Williams Lifetime
 1976: Gazeuse! – Gong
 1976: Capricorn Princess – Esther Phillips
 1977: Re-Touch &kvartett – John Stevens
 1977: Enigmatic Ocean – Jean-Luc Ponty
 1978: Expresso II – Gong
 1978: Feels Good to Me – Bruford
 1978: U.K. – U.K.
 1978: Live In Boston – U.K.
 1978: Touching On – John Stevens
 1979: One of a Kind – Bruford
 1979: Time is the Key – Pierre Moerlen's Gong
 1979: Sunbird – Gordon Beck
 1980: Conversation Piece – John Stevens
 1981: Land of Cockayne – Soft Machine
 1983: Individual Choice – Jean-Luc Ponty
 1983: Retouch – John Stevens
 1984: Transatlantic – Jon St. James
 1986: Soma – Soma
 1986: Change of Address – Krokus
 1986: Fast Impressions – Jon St. James
 1988: Radio Free Albemuth – Stuart Hamm
 1988: If This Bass Could Only Talk – Stanley Clarke
 1988: No Borders – Carl Verheyen
 1988: The Distance Between – Strange Advance
 1989: Attack of the Neon Shark – Alex Masi
 1989: A Question of Time – Jack Bruce
 1989: Gitar's Practicing Musicians – various artists
 1990: Silent Will – Andrea Marcelli
 1990: Blue Tav – Steve Tavaglione
 1991: Love in Peace – Paz
 1991: Forty Reasons – Chad Wackerman
 1991: Guaranteed – Level 42
 1992: Lone Ranger – Jeff Watson
 1993: The View – Chad Wackerman
 1993: Come Together: Guitar Tribute to the Beatles – various artists
 1995: Suffer – Gongzilla
 1995: Oneness – Andrea Marcelli
 1995: Worlds Away & Back – Strange Advance
 1996: Stare – Gorky Park
 1997: From Your Heart and Your Soul – Steve Hunt
 1997: Blue Tav – Steve Tavaglione
 2002: Pray for Rain – Atlantis
 2003: BBC Radio 1971-1974 – Soft Machine
 2003: Abracadabra – Soft Works
 2004: Sonic Undertow – Riptyde
 2004: Mythology – Derek Sherinian
 2004: Book of the Dead – K2
 2005: Nebula – David Hines
 2005: Anthology: Under the Blossom – Tempest
 2006: Deconstruction of a Postmodern Musician – Corrado Rustici
 2006: Floating World Live – Soft machine
 2007: Prowlin' – Dan Carlin & Friends
 2007: Quantum – Planet X
 2007: The Acatama Experience – Jean-Luc Ponty
 2007: Rock Goes to College – Bruford
 2008: Progasaurus – Chris Buck
 2008: Everyone Knows My Drinking, No One Knows My Thirst – Eric Keyes
 2009: Highway Star – Snew
 2009: The Early Years – Paul Korda
 2009: Propensity – John Stevens og Danny Thompson (1978)
 2010: Dirty & Beautiful: Volume I – Gary Husband

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Engelske jazzgitaristar
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Folk frå Bradford
Canterbury scene
Tempest (1970-åra)-medlemmar