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Chris Vasi

Chris Vasi arrived in Richmond, VA in 1995 with a music degree from University of Buffalo. He has been teaching guitar since 1988. Chris has a love for many different kinds of music and is currently performing a variety of styles, including modern and vintage jazz, rock, funk, latin, and blues. Chris can be seen around town playing with Hotel X, Monk's Playground, and Eastern Question. He has recorded 12 CDs over the years, and played over a thousand gigs from Canada to Florida, including clubs, colleges, and receptions. Chris plays acoustic nylon- and steel- string guitar, electric guitar, bottleneck slide, mandolin, bass, and percussion

Monk's Playground

By Chris Vasi

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012

Guitarist Chris Vasi Releases New CD: "Vesuvius"

January 20, 2010

Guitarist Chris Vasi's new quartet recording Vesuvius features saxophonist Roberto Curtis, drummer/percussionist Drex Weaver, and bassist Carter Blough, and includes tunes by Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Bobby Timmons, as well as Cuban and Cape Verdean songs, and a few original compositions. Vasi plays the electric throughout most of the record, but also utilizes the archtop, ...