Josh Mellicker

Josh Mellicker music bio:

Josh started playing guitar at the age of 5, and booked his first paying gig within the first year. After first hearing Joe Pass's "Virtuoso" album as a your teenager, he became obsessed with attaining proficiency playing jazz, and spent hours every day dropping a record needle on Joe Pass’s records to study Pass's licks over and over.

At 17, he moved to Portland, Oregon, where he had the privilege to play with a variety of well known jazz artists including Mel Brown, Paul Wertico, Doug Rodby, Leroy Vinnegar, Ben Wolfe, Phil Baker, Eddie Weid and Mark Simon, along with several local jazz ensembles, as well as playing and arranging for the Mt. Hood College “A” Lab Band.

After years of starving playing jazz, he formed an original tribal rock fusion band called "808 Credo," releasing one album and selling just over 800 copies.

Shortly thereafter, Josh sold his guitar and rarely played for about 35 years, moving to Los Angeles and pursuing success as an entrepreneur.

He recently started playing jazz guitar again, forming a group called "LA Jazz Connection" with vocalist Michelle, and has enjoyed sharing a bandstand with many world class jazz artists including John Leftwich, Katisse Buckingham, Steve Hass, Abe Lagrimas Jr., Dan Schnelle, Bob Sheppard, Danny Janklow, Anthony Fung, Doug Webb, Logan Kane, Nicole McCabe, Dave Binney, Charles Ruggerio and many others.

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