Results for "guitar, electric"

Paul Ricci

Born: March 11, 1958

Paul Ricci was born in New York in March 1958. He has performed and studied various styles of music that have led to an enduring career as a guitarist, arranger and producer in the USA and Brazil. A graduate of New England Conservatory (1980), he has performed at some of the most prestigious jazz clubs in NYC in the 1980's and 1990's sharing the stage with many great names on the international scene such as Dom Um Romao, Edison Machado, Jaki Byard, Dennis Irwin, Alex Blake, David Kikoski, Victor Jones, Santi DeBriano, Mino Cinelu, Gil Goldstein, Hugo Fattoruso, Cyro Baptista, Steve Thornton, Mike Clark, Bakithi Kumalo, Larry Willis and many others in clubs such as Fat Tuesday's, Visiones, Birdland, Zanzibar, Iridium e the Blue Note

Ryan Carraher

Born: September 25, 1993

Ryan Carraher is a guitarist, composer and educator with a unique improvisational and compositional approach. He has a degree in guitar performance from the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston. Ryan started his musical journey at the age of eleven, and two years later began playing live. He has played with many notable artists including: Allan Holdsworth, Jimmy Heath, Leslie West, Grand Funk Railroad, Pete Best, Joe Lynn Turner, Adrian Belew, Sly and the Family Stone, Ours, George Thorogood, Paul Rodgers, The Fab Faux, John Wetton, and Napoleon Murphy Brock. He has been a featured soloist in many renowned venues such as: B.B Kings Blues Club (NYC), The Morristown Community Theater (to a sold out crowd of 1,200 people), the Highline Ballroom and the Bergen PAC. In his spare time, Ryan creates experimental electronic music under the name "Flutes in a Vaccum"

Hyunil Lee

Born: October 5, 1975

Guitarist Hyunil Lee began playing guitar when he was around 16. Just like many other guitarists, he was first exposed to the music of rock and blues and later to all other types of music that you can find in this world, then he became very interested in studying jazz. After finishing high school, he moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music, where he studied with Riche Hart, Mark White, John Baboian, Mick Goodrick to name a few. He had a lot of performing experiences with different musicians and was complimented for his successful performance with all of his original compositions at Berklee in 2003. He has played in Boston, New Orleans, Los Angeles and New York area such as Rutman Bass, LilyPad in Boston, Crescent City Brew House, Lounge Lizard in New Orleans, Scat Jazz in Dallas as a band leader and a guitarist of various world class jazz bands. In 2004, he joined the 3D project Mirage for music which has become a huge sensation and has won many awards such as 34th Annual Student Academy Awards, San Diego Asian Film Festival and Oxford Film Festival. Neil's currently performing actively in various venues throughout Dallas/Fort worth.

Tjoe man cheung

Born: May 24, 1984

Currently based in London, Tjoe is an emerging musician from Hong Kong. This Musicians Institute alumnus is a favoured sideman in the Pop scene, a talented Jazz guitarist, a proficient arranger and composer. He is active in London since 2015, performing in popular acclaimed venues and doing projects with various artists and singers. Early life_He grew up in Hong Kong and started to play guitar at 19. At the very beginning he played a lot of American Rock, Motown and Funk Music like Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind and Fire, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Mr Big, AC/DC etc. 2006_Tjoe formed a Funk band "PickpakZhai" with his friends and won the champion of YAMAHA Asian Beat Band Competition in Hong Kong

Matt Lund

Born: August 8, 1977

Matt Lund is a guitarist, composer, and educator. Lund received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Kalamazoo College in Michigan and a Master of Arts in Jazz Studies from Middle Tennessee State University. He has studied, performed, and recorded with many acclaimed musicians and is currently active in The Lund McVey Group: a Christian Jazz/Fusion band from Nashville, Tennessee (contact [email protected]). Featuring eclectic and accessible original compositions, The Lund McVey Group presents memorable concerts with infectious melodies and grooves and plenty of intense playing

Frederik Leroux

With a great respect for tradition, Frederik Leroux is trying to tread new paths continuously. He not only draws inspiration from jazz, but contemporary concert music, minimalism, surrealism and free improvisation seep through in his music. Leroux explores the endless possibilities of his instrument. From romantic Ennio Morricone songs to experimental soundscapes - a wide range of styles are invoked and are systematically approached till it unmistakably sounds like Frederik Leroux .

Jaby Sanchez

Born: July 25, 1988

Born in Madrid in 1988, Jaby Sanchez is a soulful guitarist, singer and composer. His personal way of understanding music and the passion he implies to his interpretation makes his work a unique listening experience. With a strong blues base and guitarists such as Steve Ray Vaughan, Grant Green or Robben Ford in mind, Jaby leads several blues-fusion projects since 2008 on, which helps him to become a well-known face in Madrid's blues scene. By then, he also starts digging deeper into jazz studying in Escuela de Música Creativa, where he would get the Fundación Música Creativa Scholarship for two years, while studying a Music Education Degree in Universidad Complutense of Madrid

Dan Sieckman

Born: July 18, 1956

American born Jazz Guitarist Dan Sieckman received a Bachelor of Music from Arizona State University in 1981. He played extensively in the Phoenix area during the late seventies and early eighties in a variety of jazz and commercial settings. Dan took a somewhat different path than many guitarists, primarily learning the jazz idiom from pianists including Dr. Tom Ferguson, Dan Hearle, and Chuck Moronic while at Arizona State. He has also participated in clinics with the likes of Joe Pass, Herb Ellis, and Barney Kessel, to name a few. Dan took a sabbatical from music for approximately 10 years, pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems and a career as a Senior Systems Engineer for a global data processing firm. Dan started playing professionally again in 1992 in Little Rock Arkansas and quickly became widely in demand in the central Arkansas area

Residents Of The Future

Residents Of The Future perform original tunes written and arranged by guitarist and band founder Yuval Ron. The music reveals influences of modern jazz-rock icons, and a mixture of many other contemporary artists from the progressive rock, fusion and metal genres. The music places a constant emphasis on harmonic richness, rhythmical sophistication, dialogue between the players and an extensive use of synthesizers, laptops and other electronic instruments. Yuval Ron & Residents Of The Future are based in Berlin, Germany, bringing together four internationally rising talents from the next generation of electric Jazz. The material blends fascinating compositions and spectacular solo improvisations and leads to a musically electrifying experience

Perry Dean Collins,jr

Born: November 18, 1956

Creative guitarist of many years who dabbles in Jazz and rock oriented experimentation also R&B and funk.Former Berklee student (70's), and a constantly evolving musician through constant self study and interaction w/ any and all artists embodying discipline and principle with regards to the pursuit of musical excellence in the musical art.