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This article is about the guitarist Jeff Young.
For the rugby player, see .
Jeff Young (born March 31, 1962) is an
guitarist. He graduated from
in 1985, and is best known for his time with the
band , appearing on the 1988 album . In addition to his subsequent music projects, he served as an author in .
Young was born in . In 1980, he graduated from
in Kettering, Ohio, and moved to
to attend Musicians Institute/GIT in 1984. He graduated from the Institute in 1985 and began his career as a guitar teacher.
Megadeth's guitarist, Jay Reynolds (of ), had commissioned Young to play all of his solos on the new album, transcribe the previous Megadeth releases and teach him everything in time for the pending tours. However, after witnessing Young decipher previous guitarist Chris Poland's solos from
note-for-note in less than 30 minutes, frontman
decided to cut out the middleman and enlist Young into the fold. Young joined the band with only two weeks left in the recording schedule and contributed half of the guitar solos and multiple electric & acoustic rhythm parts to the album.[]
Jeff's career with Megadeth was spent recording and touring in support of their 1988 platinum selling album,
His first performance with the band appeared in
as a member of Megadeth.[]
In 2009, Young issued an online reply to comments made by Dave Mustaine that he (Mustaine) "sang" Jeff's guitar solos to him. He accused Mustaine of lying about this, saying Mustaine never sang a solo to him nor was he even in the recording studio when Young wrote or recorded his parts.[]
Following his time in Megadeth, Jeff wrote the cult-classic Fingerprints column in Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine. He also began intensive study of the blues with legendary guitarist, Steve Hunter (Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Jason Becker).
For a portion of the 1990s, Jeff stepped away from his career to deal with the untimely deaths of first his father and later his mother while immersing himself in the further study of classical, flamenco, gypsy jazz and other world music varieties
In 1998, he resurfaced with new
musical partner, . Together, the duo crafted exotic soundscapes for Verve/PolyGram records collaboration entitled, 's Chameleon. The album (co-written, arranged, and produced by Jeff), climbed to the top of the world music charts in Germany & Holland also topping JAZZIZ magazine's Readers Poll: "Best Brazilian Albums of the Year."
Opening concerts for renowned artists including
and , as well as performances on 1999's Lilith Fair and Farm Aid 2000, Jeff's association with the Assad family also spawned songwriting collaborations with guitar luminary Sergio Assad and two pieces on Badi's Verde album.
In 2003, the track "Waves" from Chameleon was featured in the Michael and Kirk Douglas film , as well as on the movie's soundtrack.
In late-October 2009, his debut solo album, Equilibrium, was released on . Young began working on the album in 2000. Stylistically, the album features , , 6 & 12 steel-string guitar styles as well as the . Equilibrium features guest performances by , Twinkle, , , , ,
Young overcame
in 2003.[]
Young is the host of the Internet radio show Music Without Boundaries.
Jeff's new & current project is a modern funk, rock, soul duo/band, Jeff Young & Sherri. The duo's first single, a re-imagining of The Rolling Stones, "Wild Horses" to be released September 2013. A Stageit impromptu performance video garnered 2,000 plays in 2 days on YouTube.
- Chameleon
(Soundtrack)
2010, Jeff Young - Equilibrium (Solo)
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