Tony Boffa

Reaching out to casual jazz listeners

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
March 24, 2016

Guitarist and singer Tony Boffa has an easy-going way of drawing listeners to jazz, whether they realize it- or not. While he was working in the Portland, Maine area as a music educator for many years, he also had his own in-demand band that played weddings and jazz gigs dating to the mid-1970s. Since retiring to southwest Florida in 2014, Boffa, 65, has been playing jazz exclusively, but drawing on his immense repertoire to build a musical bridge for casual ...
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