The metal guitarist found rebirth and rejuvenation when he overheard a John Coltrane album being remastered in a nearby studio ...

You'll only have to wait until September 7 to get some new music from guitarist Alex Skolnick as his jazz trio, the Alex Skolnick Trio, are set to release their new record, Conundrum. Hear the ...

His studies led to the formation of the Alex Skolnick Trio, which has released five albums to date. Advertisement Skolnick rejoined Testament in 2005 and is currently readying his fifth album of ...

Alex Skolnick, born in 1968, grew up in Berkeley, California. At age nine, a fascination with the rock group Kiss led to a desire to learn guitar. At age sixteen, Alex tried out for a local band ...

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Skolnick joined up with classmate Matt Zibroski on drums and eventually brought in bassist Nathan Peck, who Zibroski knew from growing up in Pittsburg. With his band together, Skolnick set about ...

Guitarist Alex Skolnick first came to prominence as a member of the thrash metal pioneers Testament. The Bay Area-born, Joe Satriani-school musician made a number of groundbreaking albums with that ...

Hear the First Song From the Alex Skolnick Trio's New Jazz Album. The Testament guitarist 's jazz trio returns with their first new album since 2011. Joe DiVita. ... Testament's Alex Skolnick doesn't ...

On record, Skolnick's trio has crafted a series of sturdy and incredibly enjoyable studio albums, but the guitarist and his compatriots (Nathan Peck on bass and Matt Zebroski on drums) take things ...

Skolnick's newfound interest in jazz guitar eventually led to the formation of the Alex Skolnick Trio, a purely instrumental jazz group ... AC/DC, Judas Priest, and Metallica. However, the band's most ...

Today, Skolnick is no longer a tourist — he earned a degree in jazz from the New School in New York City, and since 2002 he’s led his own outfit, the Alex Skolnick Trio. On their first few ...