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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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Greg Chako – Jazz Guitarist, Composer, and Bandleader
Cincinnati-born guitarist Greg Chako has spent over four decades performing, recording, and promoting jazz across the globe. A Berklee College of Music graduate, Chako has played with legends including Junior Cook, Curtis Fuller, Richie Cole, Herb Ellis, Jimmy Raney, and Delfeayo Marsalis. His career has taken him from the jazz clubs of Hong Kong and Singapore to festivals and concert halls throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.
As a bandleader, Chako has released many acclaimed live and studio albums, ranging from swinging trios to horn-driven ensembles and intricate solo guitar works. His recordings — praised for their warm tone, lyrical phrasing, and inventive arrangements — have earned spots on the JazzWeek, CMJ, and RMR charts. Critics have described his playing as “muscular sound wrapped in gloves of velvet” (Jazz Journal) and “a wonderful showcase” (Just Jazz Guitar).
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 ...
Where We Find Ourselves
By Greg Chako
Label: CPB
Released: 2006
Track listing: Voyage Down; Wave of Love; Winter Solstice; Takachan; Love Goes Fourth;
Creators of Life;
April Wind; It
