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Greg Chako

Born: June 12, 1958

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
June 29, 2008

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
March 23, 2008

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
December 10, 2007

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
February 7, 2007

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

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.

Greg Chako: Two's Company, Three's A Crowd Jazz Duets

by Michael P. Gladstone
December 7, 2006

Having lived and worked in Singapore and Japan, guitarist/composer/entrepreneur Greg Chako takes this occasion to provide us with a series of duets with vocalist Andrea Hopkins and pianists Hiroshi Tanaka and Homei Matsumoto. When Chako arrived in Japan in 2004, he found a steady guitar/piano duo gig at the famed Imperial Hotel--the first time he worked ...