Greg Carmichael never really wanted to be a solo performer. “Didn’t think I had the personality or desire to do it. I was more interested in playing in a band. It was more fun to be part of a team,” ...

Longtime Acoustic Alchemy followers may be jarred by the opening of the band’s new album, a dreamy track that sounds like one long musical bridge. But after 14 albums in 20 years, and with the backing ...

Acoustic Alchemy adds some new elements to its musical mix on Radio Contact (Higher Octave). The dual-guitar frontline of Greg Carmichael and Miles Gilderdale is still intact, and the group’s gentle, ...

Smooth jazz was a tough sell to European record executives in the mid-1980s. That's when Acoustic Alchemy was just emerging, and the England-based band was a lukewarm commodity. It took a trip ...

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The Ponte Vedra Concert Hall welcomes the return of Acoustic Alchemy on June 12. The English instrumental and smooth jazz band performed in the same venue in June 2011. Tickets will go on sale Friday.

British smooth jazz group Acoustic Alchemy climbed to the top of the charts with lively grooves and infectious melodies capturing three Grammy nominations Beginning as an acoustic guitar duo these ...

Back in 1981, Nick Webb and Simon James, two enterprising British music school students, decided to start an instrumental acoustic jazz band focused on dueling steel- and nylon-string guitars. Mind ...

The point of this band’s name isn’t that their music is acoustic (which it isn’t), but that at the centre of their electrically powered (as in guitar) and electronically worked or generated sound, ...

The English contemporary instrumental jazz band Acoustic Alchemy embraces a broad spectrum of styles without being limited to any specific genre. This twice Grammy nominated band blends nylon and ...