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News: Recording

Guitarist/Composer Greg Chako Trio New Release 'Standard Roots' On May 3, 2024

Guitarist/Composer Greg Chako Trio New Release 'Standard Roots' On May 3, 2024

Guitarist Greg Chako’s 17th CD, Standard Roots, contains over 72 minutes of music, with an additional 23+ minutes of music included in the 4 ‘bonus tracks’ on the digital version of the album. The album represents a return to what Greg calls his “roots,” because it features the trio format of guitar, bass, and drums that ...

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Life After 40

By Greg Chako

Label: Mint 400 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Jayflower; Life After 40; Changes; Bass-in' Mason Bossa; You Don't Know What Funk Is; Jaime's Waltz; Jay All Day; Love for Latin; Miami Ballad; Funky Eyes.

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A Place for Bass - Chamber Jazz Duets

By Greg Chako

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: As A Button; Bass-ic Instinct; Bass Up Front; Three Quarter Bass; Bass-in' Street Blues; Base Mode; Base Time; Bassa-Nova; Bach to Bass; Bass for Brownie; First Bass.

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Greg Chako - Tokyo Live!

By Greg Chako

Label: Mint 400 Records
Released: 2023

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News: Recording

Greg Chako And Mason Daugherty Double The Bass For Album Of Duets

Greg Chako And Mason Daugherty Double The Bass For Album Of Duets

With a professional music career that has logged 35 years of work, composer/guitarist Greg Chako still hasn't achieved the mainstream recognition that he deserves. His latest album, A Place for Bass—Chamber Jazz Duets, continues to showcase his artistry and, in this project, his versatility as well. After all, Chako leaves his guitar in its case in ...

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Sudden Impact

By Greg Chako

Label: Mint 400 Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Sudden Impact; Nancy (with the laughing face); Sussy's Song; You Don't Know What Love Is; Fried Curry Pies; Everything Happens to Me; Jones'in; People; I Remember You; Morning; Gone With the Wind.

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Friends, Old & New

By Greg Chako

Label: Mint 400 Records & Raining Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Organomics; Spring Rain; Bent Metal - Tribute to a Green Trucker; Walk With Me; The Whole Truth; Samba Summer (vocal); Wayne’s Waltz; Giles Smiles; Groove Time; Samba Summer (instrumental).

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Article: Album Review

Greg Chako: Friends, Old & New

Read "Friends, Old & New" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Guitarist Greg Chako has always considered himself a composer and arranger first and foremost over his abilities as a player. After a long chapter in his life where he performed and produced music in Asia, his return to the states and coming back home to Cincinnati, has energized the guitarist and filled him with a new ...

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Samba Summer

Album: Friends, Old & New
By Greg Chako
Label: Mint 400 Records & Raining Music
Released: 2022
Duration: 5:46

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Article: Album Review

Greg Chako: Sudden Impact

Read "Sudden Impact" reviewed by Edward Blanco

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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