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  Leonard Kwan
Leonard Kwan was one of the three most influential slack key guitarists in history.
With these early landmark recordings, Leonard Kwan was firmly established as one of slack key’s most distinctive and influential talents in the history of slack key guitar.
Leonard’s unique and beautiful style is lovingly represented on these 28 legendary tracks recorded from 1957-1974.
www.cordinternational.com /leonard_kwan.htm   (270 words)

  
  Leonard Kwan Profile - Hawaiian Music
With these early landmark recordings, Leonard Ke‘ala Kwan (1931-2000) was firmly established as one of slack key's most distinctive and influential talents in the history of slack key guitar.
This first CD reissue of the late Leonard Kwan's historic Tradewinds recordings marks an important event for all fans of slack key.
Leonard's unique and beautiful style is lovingly represented on these 28 legendary tracks recorded from 1957-1974.
www.booklineshawaii.com /music/profiles/LeonardKwan.html   (163 words)

  
 FAME Review: Leonard Kwan - The Legendary Leonard Kwan
Leonard Kwan has the distinction of having released what is regarded as the first album in Hawaiian recording history devoted exclusively to slack key instrumental playing: the Red Album (properly known as "Slack Key"), now a collectors item.
Kwan also plays a solo guitar piece, a rare event back then as slack key tended to be played in a group setting rather than alone.
The Legendary Leonard Kwan ends with three bonus tracks: he accompanies the Kamaha'os Trio on the Charles King classic Po Mahina and on Noho Paipai (attributed to John Almeida); he also plays Hawaiian Love in a very rare tuning (Gabby's F Wahine, favored by Gabby Pahinui) accompanied by a second guitar.
www.acousticmusic.com /fame/p02704.htm   (855 words)

  
 Ham Kae Kwan
Ham Kae Kwan hälsar alla som är nyfikna på taekwondo varmt välkomna till vårat nybörjarintag.
I finalen mötte han för fjärde gången denna säsong Leonard Soukka från Norrköping.
I finalen väntade återigen Leonard Soukka från Norrköping, och även denna gång avgjordes matchen i tredje ronden då Tore nådde först till 12 poäng.
www.hamkaekwan.se   (3561 words)

  
 Slack Key Guitar Recordings
THE LEGENDARY LEONARD KWAN - THE COMPLETE EARLY RECORDINGS (HOCD 55000)
FOUR HANDS SWEET and HOT (38048) - with Bob Brozman - Hawaiian acoustic steel and slack key guitar duets
THE LEGENDARY LEONARD KWAN - THE COMPLETE EARLY RECORDINGS (HOCD 55000) - Includes sheet music for Opihi Moemoe
www.dancingcat.com /recordings-hawaiian.php   (361 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
Leonard Ke'ala Kwan, a slack-key master who with the late Gabby Pahinui and the late Sonny Chillingworth inspired generations of musicians around the world, died Sunday in his sleep.
Kwan and his music will be celebrated at the 18th Annual Bankoh Kihoalu, a slack-key festival starting at 2:00 p.m.
Kwan is survived by three sons, Leonard Ke'ala Jr., Kenneth and Kevin-Lee; a brother, the Rev. Melvin Kwan; a sister, Mildred Jeremiah; and seven grandchildren.
starbulletin.com /2000/08/15/news/story6.html   (316 words)

  
 Leonard Kwan
Leonard Ke’ala Kwan (1931-2000) was one of the three most influential slack key guitarists in history, along with Gabby Pahinui & Sonny Chillingworth.
With these early landmark recordings, Kwan was firmly established as one of slack key’s most distinctive and influential talents in the history of slack key guitar.
This CD includes that debut recording, all other Tradewinds tracks with Leonard as a leader, plus two songs featuring him as a sideman.
www.hulasource.com /leonardkwan.html   (193 words)

  
 Taropatch.net - Leonard Kwan: Slack Key Instruction Book
Some of Leonards LP's are available on e-Bay at reasonable prices and are helpful and sometimes necessary to make sense of the TAB.
From this book and the recording of the great Leonard Kwan, I was able to learn Opihi Moe Moe and Opihi Momona Nui.
I just found a CD called "the Legendary Leonard Kwan" that was recently (2003) produced by George Winston although not under the Dancing Cat label.
www.taropatch.net /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16   (1154 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin
It would be hard to overstate the importance of Leonard Kwan in helping lift ki ho'alu (slack key) from grass-roots obscurity and into the Hawaiian music mainstream.
Kwan was not only one of slack key's most distinctive artists, but his 1960 "Slack Key" was the first full-length album of slack-key instrumentals.
Also known as "the red album," it has long been revered as the most influential album in the genre ever.
starbulletin.com /columnist/column.php?id=5321&col_id=28   (360 words)

  
 The Legendary Leonard Kwan   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The first title was the legendary Ray Kane, a superb and enlightening look into the roots of slack key.
The follow-up release, the original recordings of Leonard Kwan are even more amazing.
Listening to this disc will make you think that it is a new release, recorded this year, not between 1957 and 1974.
www.mcz.com /musicclub/reviews/kwan.htm   (271 words)

  
 A Brief History of Slack Key Guitar
These three are notable not only because of their artistic virtuosity, but also because of the availability of their recordings, Gabby's in the late 1940s, and Leonard's and Sonny's in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Awareness and popularity of slack key guitar were further increased by the release of several great slack key albums in the 1960s by Leonard Kwan, Ray Kane, Atta Isaacs and Gabby Pahinui on Margaret Williams' Tradewinds label.
Sonny Chillingworth, Leonard Kwan and Ray Kane have also continued to record and influence many others in the 1980s and 1990s.
paulwaters.com /slackhis.htm   (2854 words)

  
 Taropatch.net - August giveaway: win Leonard Kwan's red book
Anyone who posts in the month of August will be entered into a random drawing to win Leonard Kwan's out-of-print Slack Key Instruction Book.
On another note, as of 8/16, the chances of winning the Leonard Kwan book are 1 in 65.
The Leonard Kwan book has some great slack key songs for whomever is the lucky winner!
www.taropatch.net /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1057   (966 words)

  
 Archives Aug.2005 - Steve Kwan, Software Engineer
The Vault was a staple during Kwan family vacations.
Regardless, it's certainly a great tune and is deserving of being in Steve Kwan's top five.
The point to be taken here is that if the takedown order had never been issued, then the key would probably be know to handful of people as opposed to the masses that do now.
www.stevekwan.com /archives/2005/08   (2220 words)

  
 Taropatch.net - Leonard Kwan Re-release
Posted - 06/24/2003 : 10:28:22 PM Cord International informed me via e-mail that they will be re-releasing the complete early recordings of Leonard Kwan in about two months.
It was great news to me because I have been searching for a recording of "Nahenahe" ever since I learned it from his red slack key instruction book.
And I did get to see Leonard (along with Ray Kane, George Kuo, Oz Kotani and others) perform at the Academy of Arts in Honolulu several years ago.
www.taropatch.net /forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=951   (294 words)

  
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Monotonous [From Leonard Stillman's New Faces of 1952]
For New York (Variations on Themes of Leonard Bernstein)
Leonard Bernstein Medley: Simple Song (From Mass)/One Hand, On...
www.kegl.com /iplaylist/search.php?t=song&q=Leonard   (65 words)

  
 Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Artists
There's a special aloha for them that I try to convey in my style of slack key."
Leonard Keala Kwan has been playing ki ho'alu, Hawaiian slack key guitar, for over fifty years.
He has proven to be a creative artist as well as a trailblazer.
www.dancingcat.com /artists-hawaiian.php   (639 words)

  
 Legendary Leonard Kwan: Slack Key - The Complete Early Recordings - BooklinesHawaii.com - Hawaii Music
Legendary Leonard Kwan: Slack Key - The Complete Early Recordings - BooklinesHawaii.com - Hawaii Music
Leonard Kwan was one of the three most influential slack key guitarists in history, along with Gabby Pahinui and Sonny Chillingworth.
"Producing Leonard was the most enjoyable thing I have ever done--both for the music and for who he was personally.
www.booklineshawaii.com /music/mvh/55002.html   (270 words)

  
 Leonard Kwan on Rhapsody
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Hear Leonard Kwan and similar artists on this channel.
Take Rhapsody with you on a portable player
www.rhapsody.com /leonardkwan   (57 words)

  
 CMT.com : Leonard Kwan : Related Artists
His new video invites you to just "Fall." Check it out.
If you are into Leonard Kwan you might also like these artists.
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www.cmt.com /artists/az/kwan_leonard/rel_artists.jhtml   (60 words)

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