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Article: Acoustic alchemy at home in America. (Music).(Interview)
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- Europe
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- November 1, 2002
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Jazz guitarist Greg Carmichael is a member of the Mile High Club, sort of. Actually, this particular branch is reserved for musicians who got their big break playing on jetliners and includes only two known members, Carmichael and his late partner, guitarist Nick Webb. Back in 1986, the British duo answered an ad for Virgin Atlantic, which was looking for entertainers to perform during a flight from London to New York.
"Fire eaters and jugglers need not apply, it said," Carmichael remembered recently after a performance with Acoustic Alchemy (the band that evolved from his partnership with Webb) in Arlington, Virginia, part of an eighteen-city tour this fall. He ...
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