Among the premier Rumba, Samba and Bossa Nova guitarists in the world today, Lawson Rollins gets back to what he does best with the 2023 CD release of Heartwood. The 9-song, 45 minute album features a stellar mix of Lawson’s passionate acoustic guitar jazz played with a decidedly contemporary Latin and Flamenco spirit. Lawson has a number of classic guitar albums to his credit, including classics such as his best-of sampler, Airwaves from 2018, all the way back to his early classic Infinita from 2008. In between that decade, Lawson released a series of instrumental albums that blended his mix of contemporary nylon string guitar techniques with a spirited variety of flamenco jazz guitar.

Assisting Lawson on Heartwood are a variety of top players, including many that have appeared on a cross-section of his previous albums, including Grammy winning violinists Charlie Bisharat and Mads Tolling, expert jazz saxophonist Mary Fettig, Brazilian percussionist Marquinho Brasil, virtuoso bassist Dan Feiszli, multi-instrumentalist Stephen Duros, keyboardist Michael Bluestein, cellist Joseph Hebert, and drummers Colin Douglas and Dave Bryant. Lawson Rollins continues his unbridled winning streak of super-charged, contemporary acoustic guitar-jazz instrumental albums with the colorful and dynamic grooves of Heartwood.