Results for "guitar, electric"

Andrés Corredor

Born: October 23, 1990

Guitarist from Bogotá, Colombia (1990). Started playing guitar at 13, learning by his own with some help from music teachers from his school. Heavily influenced by rock and blues, he studied like this all the way through high school. In 2009 enters District University Arts Faculty (ASAB), where he got to know jazz; his musical imaginary began to fit together.

Later he would fall in love with the folkloric music from Colombia, completing the influences tree that makes for his sound and composing. He studied with masters David Castelblanco, Óscar Portillo, Ronald González, Pablo Beltrán, Patricio Stiglich, Juan Carlos Castillo, and Rafael Vallejo. Big Band ASAB member from 2010 to 2012. Has participated as guitarist in a variety of projects including genres such as jazz, pop, rock, hip-hop, bolero, reggae, funk, folk, both as an active member and sessionist. In 2014 he was selected to be part of the Socar Montreux Jazz Electric Guitar Competition – performed during the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival, in Switzerland – obtaining the second place, surprising and leaving a very positive impression on the jury (presided by the renowned guitarist Lee Ritenour) and the european audience. Thanks to this result he has been invited to the Montreux Jazz Academy, to take place during October-November of this same year.

Olufunsho Adeolu Adeshina

Born: September 29, 1985

Born and raised in Nigeria (West Africa), Olufunsho Adeshina (Funshow) always wants to be a music maker with more interest in guitar. He moved to USA with the motive of exploring every opportunity music has to offer, regardless of genre. He is influenced by virtuoso guitar players such as George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Grant Green, Norman Brown and Agboola Shadare just to name a few. Funshow still live in Saint Louis, Missouri, he released 3 singles, Feelings, Lets do it and Weekend in Miami.

David Stern

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, David began his pursuit of music at the age of five. With his passion for music steadily growing throughout his childhood, during high school he set his focus on jazz guitar, subsequently attending Berklee College of Music from 2014-2018. Moving to New York City, he then became an active peformer for both public shows and private events. As an educator, he taught at public schools, private schools, after-school programs, and independent students. In 2022, he made a decision to "pull a Sonny Rollins" and make a living through a different field in order to finish writing his three books on music and thoroughly practice the content from them; he plans on returning to the scene in a few years.

Stephen Blum

Born: April

STEPHEN BLUM Guitarist, Acoustic and Electric Master guitarist Stephen Blum’s career has taken him around the world with some of the biggest names in Jazz, Brazilian, American Blues and Popular music. He has appeared at many top music venues and festivals such as The Montreal Jazz Festival, Maine Festival of the Arts, The Great American Music Hall, Yoshi’s Jazz Club (SF), Cape Cod Jazz Festival, The French Quarter Festival (New Orleans), Smalls Jazz Club (NYC), Wall Street Jazz Festival, SESC Concerts Sao Paulo, Brazil, Snug Harbor, New Orleans and the Portland Performing Arts Center, Portland, Maine

Adrien Baudrimont

Born: August 27, 1980

Sigurdur Rögnvaldsson

Born: November 30, 1980

Sigurdur Rögnvaldsson (born November 30, 1980, Reykjavik, Iceland), often referred to as “Siggi”, is an Icelandic jazz-rock guitarist and composer, living in Helsinki, Finland. He is best known for his work with the trio Equally Stupid and his own group Sigurdur Rognvaldsson´s Dark Forest.  His musical style is a mixture of jazz and rock with influences from free improvised music.  Previously he worked with the Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic group Laser and the Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish group Defekt.  Sigurdur picked up the guitar for the first time at the age of 10 and quickly started playing rock and blues music

[novox]

Born: September 17, 1972

After their highly acclaimed 2nd album (Jazz Magazine) this 3rd opus performed by 7 Lyon and St Etienne based musicians is 14 tracks of pure funk groove. Novox continues is course and it’s unique blend of influences. A warm double bass and the soft touch of the Fender Rhodes are combined with sharp horns, a raw electric guitar and the distinctive scratching from DJ Mat.

Tom Ishizuka

Gio Yanez

Born: October 31, 1983

Born in Ponferrada, northwest of Spain, studies Jazz Guitar at ESMAE (Porto-Portugal) with teachers Nuno Ferreira, Michael Lauren, Abe Rábade, Mario Santos, Carlos Azevedo among others. Previously he studies with galician jazz guitarist Marcos Pin. Also with Paco Charlín for a year and with teachers Manuel Gutiérrez, Javier Constenla and Suso Atanes. Attends to several master classes and courses and have played in festivals both in Spain and Portugal. Last year he toured with chilean master, trumpeter Cristian Cuturrufo.

Kaan Metin