While electric guitarist Dan Phillips spends most of his time in Bangkok, Thailand, where he teaches music at Silpakorn University, he heads back to Chicago every year to visit family and reconnect with a music scene that shaped his aesthetic sense. Most of his local gigs this time have been with shifting four-piece lineups that pit his liquid tone and fluent phrasing against a series of extroverted horn or keyboard players.…
While electric guitarist Dan Phillips spends most of his time in Bangkok, Thailand, where he teaches music at Silpakorn University, he heads back to Chicago every year to visit family and reconnect with a music scene that shaped his aesthetic sense. Most of his local gigs this time have been with shifting four-piece lineups that pit his liquid tone and fluent phrasing against a series of extroverted horn or keyboard players.…