Dave Stryker Organ Trio Friday, June 16th at Cecils and The Stryker/Slagle Band Friday June 23rd at The Goat

Friday June 23rd - 9:30 and 11 PM at The Goat
The Stryker/Slagle Band
Dave Stryker - guitar
Steve Slagle - sax
Jay Anderson - bass
Billy Hart - drums
The Goat / 21 South Orange Ave / So. Orange NJ / 973-275-9000
http://thegoatcafe.typepad.com/

also Thur. June 29th at the Glen Rock Inn with Roni Ben-Hur Glen Rock Inn / 222 Rock Rd. / Glen Rock NJ / 201-445-2362

“If only every band's debut could be as engaging as this new release...vibrant, modern originals played with elan"--Zan Stewart, Newark Star Ledger

“Live at the Jazz Standard is a field report from one of today's most inspired two-man teams"--David Adler, JazzTimes

“The co-leaders, having played together for nearly two decades, have achieved an empathy that results in several passages of remarkable collective improvisation"--Will Smith, DownBeat

Whether you've heard guitarist Dave Stryker fronting his own group (with 20 CD's as a leader to date), or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and Kevin Mahogany, you know why Gary Giddins in the Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years."He was voted one of the Top Ten Guitarists in the 2001 Critics and Readers poll of DownBeat Magazine.

Dave's groups include The Stryker/Slagle Band (with saxist Steve Slagle),as well as his other projects: The Blue to the Bone Band, The Shades Project (w/ Lenny White), Trio Mundo, featuring Manolo Badrena on percussion and vocals, and Andy McKee on bass and his latest group The Dave Stryker Organ Trio. Recent gigs for Dave Stryker include Jazz At Lincoln Center's Stanley Turrentine Tribute and the Berks Jazz Fest. Mel Bay Records will also be releasing his new organ trio CD The Chaser July 18th.