Frank Gambale
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Gambale performing in Montréal in 2011
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Frank Gambale |
| Born | 22 December 1958 |
| Origin | Canberra, Australia |
| Genres | Jazz fusion, smooth jazz, jazz, instrumental rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, producer |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Labels | Legato, Victor, Favored Nations, Wombat |
| Associated acts | Chick Corea Elektric Band, Vital Information, GHS, Return to Forever |
| Website | frankgambale.com |
Frank Gambale (born 22 December 1958) is an Australian jazz fusion guitarist. He has released twenty albums over a period of three decades, and is renowned for his use of the sweep picking and economy picking techniques.
Gambale graduated from the Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood, with Student of the Year honors. He also taught there from 1984 to 1986. After graduation, he played the jazz club circuit with his own band and in 1985 released his first studio album, Brave New Guitar, through Legato Records (owned by Mark Varney, brother of Shrapnel Records founder Mike Varney) in what was to be a three-album contract. In the summer of 1986, he toured with Jean-Luc Ponty and shortly afterwards began a six-year stint with the Chick Corea Elektric Band in 1987. During his time with the latter, he has participated in five albums and shared a Grammy Award (with two nominations).
In the 1980s, he released two studio albums (Brave New Guitar and A Present for the Future) and a live album. In 1988 he released Monster Licks & Speed Picking through REH Publications, and later reissued in 1994 through Hal Leonard Publications. This was the first of his many instructional videos and particularly the first book to be written on the subject of sweep picking, now a widely used guitar technique. A 1987 endorsement deal with Ibanez guitars transitioned into the 1991 debut of the Frank Gambale Model (FGM) signature series, modeled after the Ibanez S. Through 1999, four FGM models were produced: the FGM100, FGM200, FGM300 and FGM400. Yamaha also manufactured a signature guitar, the AES-FG, after he left Ibanez later in the 1990s. Gambale signed with Victor Entertainment in 1989 as part of a five-album agreement, and released his third studio album, Thunder from Down Under, the following year.
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