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Jim Josselyn

Born: October 31, 1968

Jim got his first guitar at age 11 in Nogales, Mexico on a family trip and hasn't put it down since. Shortly after he heard Jimi Hendrix and ultimately Coltrane and Wes and Pat Martino among others and was hooked on jazz. Jim has studied with Pat, Ted Dunbar, Jimmy heath, Sir Roland Hanna, Steve Khan and Rodney Jones. 

He's performed with Larry Ridley, Jeb Patton, Jim Ridl, Jimmy Heath, Wynton Marsalis and at Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the NJPAC and countless clubs and festivals. 

The Jim Josselyn Group: Brazilian Sunflower

by Dave Hughes
November 1, 2001

The Jim Josselyn Group’s Brazilian Sunflower isn’t so much about Brazilian music as it’s title suggests; perhaps it’s the sunflower itself that’s Brazilian. True, the title tune and the closer do have that gentle lilting samba feel, but I would describe this more as jazz with a Brazilian influence rather than the other way around. But ...