Results for "Acoustic Guitar"

Francesco Mascio

Born: March 23, 1981

Francesco Mascio, chitarrista e compositore italiano, nasce a Cassino nel 1981. Ha all'attivo una pluriennale carriera con un numero di concerti a quattro cifre sia in Italia, da Torino a Caltanissetta, passando per Milano, Bologna, Roma, Napoli, sia all'estero in Europa e negli Stati Uniti. Numerosi album tra i quali ricordiamo "Europa Jazz Quartet" (Zone di Musica 2012), "Mantras for a New Era" (Zone di Musica 2013), "Ganga's Spirit" (Emme Record Label 2015), "Jaggae" (Filibusta Records 2017) che l'ha portato a suonare presso l'Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma, "Wu Way" (Filibusta Records 2018), “Live at Strike” (Cultural Bridge 2019), “I Thàlassa Mas” (Manitu Records 2019), “Preview” (Italian Way Music 2020), "My Standards" (Birdbox Records 2022), "Horizons" (Aventino Music 2022), e il suo nuovo singolo "A Song for Peace" (Birdbox Records 2022

Amaury Faivre

Born: August 6, 1985

Harmonicist, guitarist and singer, Amaury Faivre is an acoustic blues artist, with a 25 years carreer, and more than 1000 stages on 3 continents and a dozen countries.

Born in Besançon in France, he blows for the first time in his father’s harmonica at the age of 8, and he naturally started playing the music of the blues pioneers, listening to artists like Robert Johnson, Mississippi Fred McDowell or John Lee Hooker... Learning jazz and its complex harmony will make him a great improviser.  He starts guitar and singing, and most of all the chromatic harmonica which has been a key element to his musical personality ever since.  His career debuts with the Prix du Public at the Jeunesses Muciales de France in Paris at the age of 15, and he rapidly joins local blues, jazz and rock bands. After a Bachelor of Musicology at the University of Besançon, and two years of jazz guitar studies at the Université de Montreal, he comes back to Europe and settles in Geneva.

Matt Richards

Born: March 15, 1959

Born and raised in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, guitarist Matt Richards grew up in the culturally fertile cross-currents of the late 1960s. His musical pathway opens in the mix of folk, rock and psychedelic music that defined that decade and eventually guides him into the hyperactive jazz-fusion of the 1970s. Initially a self-taught player, Matt began earnestly developing the technically advanced musical abilities necessary to be part of that highly-energized genre. As his musicianship developed, he discovered straight-ahead jazz and classical music and began incorporating the acoustic guitar in various projects

Jason Keiser

Born: December 21, 1994

Jason Keiser is a professional jazz guitarist, multi-stylist, OA2 recording and performing artist, bandleader, and composer based in the Bay Area, currently residing in San Jose, California.

Jason just released "Kind of Kenny" featuring John Stowell, Erik Jekabson, Michael Zilber, and Danielle Wertz on OA2 Records on Friday October 25th, 2024 honoring the trumpet/flugelhorn master; Kenny Wheeler. This marks Keiser's 2nd album on OA2 Records and his 8th release in his discography.

“San Jose Guitarist Jason Keiser casts a wide musical net, enamored equally with bluegrass as with post-bop jazz. Rather than diluting his attention, his varied interests seem to have sharpened his imagination, judging by his impressive new album
“Shaw’s Groove”. © Andrew Gilbert, Bay Area News Group

George Cole

GEORGE COLE: Breakneck acoustic guitarist George Cole inhabits a musical world all his own.... a world in which Django Reinhardt, The Ramones, Artie Shaw, Nat King Cole and Doc Watson get equal billing with Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Willie Nelson and the Great American Songbook. Cole currently occupies the guitar chair for the David Grisman Quintet and has two releases on Grisman’s highly regarded Acoustic Disc Label. George was guitar teacher and mentor to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of Green Day. George Cole, a San Francisco native and BAMMIE award winner brings an expertise to his guitar playing and singing that is filtered through Rock and Roll, Gypsy Jazz and All things American. Cole is a composer, lyricist, and highly skilled arranger; his current projects include The George Cole Quintet Riverside Drive Redux (acoustic string/swing ala David Grisman Quintet), The George Cole Orchestra (7-16 piece big band), The Guitar Professor™ instructional video series with accompanying books, and recording an all new solo record.  ACCOLADES “George Cole is a major guitar talent who plays everything from gypsy jazz to rhythm & blues

Bruno Mangueira

Born: November 3, 1978

Born in 1978 in Vitoria, Brazil, Bruno Mangueira appears regularly on the Brazilian and international scenes as a guitarist, composer, and arranger. He has performed alongside Brazilian artists including Zizi Possi, Leila Pinheiro, Toninho Horta, Nelson Ayres, Filó Machado, Gilson Peranzzetta, Paulo Jobim, Sizão Machado, and Helio Alves. His work with American artists has included Phil DeGreg, Rick DellaRatta, Mandy Gaines, Kim Pensyl and Paul Keller. In Paris, he has played with Leonardo Montana, Bruno Schorp and Fred Pasqua. Mangueira has been featured as a soloist with symphony orchestras and big bands in Brazil and the United States

Mike Hecchi

Ultrafaux

Active since: January 15

The Baltimore-based Ultrafaux Ensemble performs original Gypsy Jazz-inspired music with elements of swing, funk, blues, Brazilian choro, and French musette. Lead guitarist and composer Michael Joseph Harris is one of the most prolific writers in this style rooted in the technique of legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt. The instrumentation and personnel vary with each show drawing from a list of top players in the jazz, folk and bluegrass scene. The compositions allow Harris' constant rotation of sidemen on accordion, violin, clarinet, guitar, and upright bass, to harmonize together over rich Gypsy-inspired melodies while also allowing ample solo opportunities throughout each song

Alain PIERRE

Vic Dillahay

Born: November 4, 1979

With his wide-open tone and witty compositions, Colorado-based guitarist Vic Dillahay blends a myriad of styles into an unmistakably unique voice. For over 20 years, he has refined this distinctive sound with numerous jazz ensembles, Liam O’Beirne’s progressive Celtic band Indigent Row, and as part of the fusion trio Graphite Addiction with Pete Ehrmann (Generations) and Tim Carmichael (3ology). His discography is equally eclectic, having appeared on over 25 albums ranging from swing jazz to electronic noise. Vic's recent solo work explores the rich history of American music with free-roving jazz, blues, and rock-tinged improvisations.