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American Vanity --- 2002

He can play lightning fast phrases or slow blues, sentimental melodies or dissonant flurries, and he’s certainly a brilliant player. Fans of guitar forays will be especially amazed by what he does on several pieces…consistent musical brilliance. —Ron Wynn, Nashville City Paper …this is a muscular and audacious display of technical virtuosity…he’s got my attention. —Dan McClenaghan, AllAboutJazz.com His approach is stately as classical music but loaded with the nose-thumbing attitude of American music (found also in Thelonious Monk, Charles Ives and Lightnin’ Hopkins). —Mark Keresman, JazzReview.com Using hefty fingerstyle chops on acoustic guitar, he weaves bebop phrases, discrete bass lines, prepared guitar, dissonance, and fragmented improvisation into a cool and unique personal statement…Hofbauer sustains the personality of each arrangement while re- examining its elements. [His] original pieces are equally interesting, angular and thorny… —Gary Lee Joyner, Acoustic Guitar