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Samba Summer
Album: Friends, Old & New
By Greg Chako
Label: Mint 400 Records & Raining Music
Released: 2022
Duration: 5:46
Greg Chako: Sudden Impact
by Edward Blanco
Cincinnati-based guitarist Greg Chako spent many years in Asia, living and performing in various countries including Japan, China and Singapore. He produced several albums during his time abroad, assembling a discography that has not been readily available to American jazz fans. Sudden Impact, originally released in 1996, is the first of several re-releases on the Mint ...
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Greg Chako
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Cincinnati-born jazz guitarist Greg Chako took his first music lessons at the age of 9 on the accordion. With Hendrix as an admired hero, guitar then became his primary focus; and after just 1 year of guitar lessons, Greg won 2nd place among more than 1,000 contestants in the American Guild of Music competition. The following year, he placed first in a local contest, and later attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he made the Dean’s list and earned an associates degree in Music Performance.
Anxious to experience life outside of school, he played with top artists like Junior Cook, Bill Hardman, Othello Molineaux, Johnny Lytle, Bobby Watson, Herb Ellis, Jimmy Raney, and others
Everybody's Got A Name
By Greg Chako
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2008
Track listing: Boppin' at Berlitz; Bop-n Swing Thing; Everybody's Got a Name; All Roads Lead Home; The Lamp Is Low; Apache Junction; Yamanashi Snow; Mimosa; A Felicidade; Blues for Redd; From This Moment On.
Greg Chako: Everybody's Got A Name
by Michael P. Gladstone
Guitarist/composer/bandleader Greg Chako has recorded in varied venues and formats—performing in duet, trio and here in quartet. Paint A Picture, Tell A Story (CPB, 2007) even made use of marquee names Don Byron and Delfeayo Marsalis. It remains a mystery why he hasn't achieved wider acclaim and better gigs. Perhaps the use of a creative album ...
Everybody's Got A Name
by Edward Blanco
Greg Chako Everybody's Got A Name Self Published 2008 Guitarist and composer Greg Chako is the consummate musician who, despite personal hardships in his life, dedicates himself to the art of jazz with every fiber of his being, producing one fine album after another. Everybody's Got a Name ...
Paint A Picture, Tell A Story
By Greg Chako
Label: CPB
Released: 2007
Track listing: Cycles; Next; Murtabop; Ballad for Andy; Marilyn's Dilemma; Hurry Up and Wait; What da'Funk!; The End Of A Love Affair; With Full Heart and Teary Eyes; People Will Say We're In Love.
Greg Chako: Paint A Picture, Tell A Story
by Michael P. Gladstone
Perhaps reviewing guitarist Greg Chako's Where We Find Ourselves (CPB, 2006) and Two's Company, Three's A Crowd Jazz Duets (CPB, 2006), explains why his adventures, both musical and otherwise, remain amazing. From Boston's Berklee College of Music, Chako relocated to New York, where he discovered his talent for culinary arts. In Amherst, ...
Take Five With Greg Chako
by AAJ Staff
Meet Greg Chako: USA born, Greg distinguished himself early on as an exceptional guitarist by placing second in the American Guild of Music Competition at age 11. After receiving formal education at Berklee Collage of Music in Boston, he began performing and promoting jazz, including appearances with leading artists. He has overcome many obstacles ...
Two's Company, Three's A Crowd Jazz Duets
By Greg Chako
Label: CPB
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Days Of Wine And Roses; I Could Write A Book; Estate; Almost Like Being In Love; Portrait of Jenny; Mean To Me; Some Other Spring; I Wish You Love; Autumn Leaves; In My Solitude; You're My Everything; If; Who Can I Turn To?; So Many Stars; Time After Time; Take The "A" Train.
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