Results for "guitar, electric"

Jakob Thorkild

George Stavroulakis

Born: February 12, 1978

George Stavroulakis was born in Athens, in 1978. He has studied privately with John Ekmektsoglou and Yiotis Samaras, has also attended private lessons from Mikkel Ploug and Mike Moreno and has attended clinics by Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Scofield, Kenwood Dennard, Tim Miller, Allan Holdsworth and Scott Henderson. George has been active in the Greek jazz scene since 2006 and has been playing as a sideman in various jazz ensembles with renowned artists including Kostas Konstantinou, George Georgiadis, Seraphim Bellos, Dimitris Pantelias, Pantelis Benetatos and many others, having jammed and performed at lots of Athens’ jazz music venues

Woody Russell

Born: September 30, 1966

Woody Russell is an American Jazz, R&B and Soul Singer-Songwriter/Guitarist. His style is often referred to as "Jazz adjacent" and is a singular sound with deep roots in Jazz, Soul and Blues. An award-winning artist on the CUTS Music Group label, Russell's critically acclaimed discography began with 1996's As Simple As That, a largely acoustic album that launched was his first solo outing. In 2016 he released Carry It Up, a sophisticated pop-jazz leaning recording that continues to align his style with that of artists such as Al Jarreau, Van Morrison, Kurt Elling and Gregory Porter.

Daniel Guanuco

DANIEL GUANUCO was born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1981. He is currently based in Córdoba, Argentina. He studied Jazz Guitar by taking private lessons with Prof. Daniel Corzo. He studied Classical Guitar with Prof. Patricia Chiappa at Conservatorio Superior de Música de Córdoba, and graduated with the title of Technician in Art of Music with Guitar Guidance. He has attended several seminars, courses, workshops, clinics and conferences by prestigious national and international musicians such as: John Stowell, Sid Jacobs, Pino Marrone, Richard Smith, David Becker, Michael Jefry Stevens, Michael Tracy, Pekka Pylkkánen, Mika Pohjola, Bruce Spradley, Paul Campiglia, Bruce Becker, Jonas Johansen, Fredrik Lundin, Ben Besiakow, Jesper Bodilsen, Tomas Janzon, Eric Leboucher - Radiguet, Thomas Brendgens – Mönkemeyer, Luigi Bozzolan, Eugenio Colombo, Ari Hoenig, Albert Bover, Bebo Ferra, Marcelo Escrich, Luis D’Agostino, Francisco Lo Vuolo, Marcelo Cáceres, Fico De Castro, Daniel Colombres, Marcos De Ros, Pablo Soler , Julio Azcano, Aquiles Báez, Carlé Costa, Sebastián Zambrana, Carlos Aguirre, Alfredo Escande, Silvia Sufé, Alejandro Parino, R omán Carballo, Gabriel Bartolomei, Walter Heinze, Rafael Andía, y Victor Villadangos. ARTISTIC ACTIVITY As an Independent Musician, he organizes and produces his own presentations

Lello Panico

Born: March 9, 1957

Guitarist, composer, songwriter and teacher. During his career he has played just about everything, from rock to jazz, from brazilian music to fusion to funk, to happily return to the sound of blues and the language of soul, his first immense love, with conviction and firm belief in the principle that an electric guitar, above all else, plays the Blues. Born in Caserta, he takes his first steps in the world of music in the 1970’s. Like all the young people of that generation he falls in love with the sound of the great rock blues guitarists of the time, from Jimi Hendrix to Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, etc.

Drayen Labie

Born: June 30, 1979

Drayen Labie comes from the Reunion Island. He is an “all-road” musician now living in Tours (France). Firstly drummer and singer, he is now an established guitar and bass player, working in different fields like teaching, playing live within several bands or for demo shows, and recording in studio. Drayen is comfortable with every style of music, including world music, rock, gospel, reggae, metal or progressive music… but his favorite style will always be Jazz, especially jazz rock and fusion. Influences : Shawn Lane, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Morse, Georges Benson, Pat Martino, Jimi Hendrix...

Dr. Joyner

Born: May 19, 1983

Dr. Joyner is a 21st century American guitarist and composer, demolishing musical boundaries between such diverse genres as jazz, blues, avant-garde, ambient, space rock, and progressive rock. Dr. Joyner's roots lie in the blues. However, his recent solo albums Nature and Voyage (2014) showcase his ability to compose impressive highly-immersive and deeply personal compositions that are most similar to space rock and progressive rock. In his collaboration with Case on Bass in Casebere and Joyner, Dr. Joyner and Case on Bass rid their instruments of music norms and embark on wild psychedelic tangents that redefine music and explore deep regions of the mind

Sid Jacobs

Born: 1952

Sid Jacobs was born in Miami Beach, Florida. Sid spent his first few years in Havana, Cuba prior to the revolution, after which, the Jacobs family returned to Miami. It is there, at the age of seven, he began his fascination with the guitar. When his family moved to Nevada, Sid obtained a position as guitar instructor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This made him, at eighteen, the youngest faculty member in the school's music department. After moving to Los Angeles he developed the curriculum for the Advanced Bebop and Jazz Guitar course at the Dick Grove School and the Jazz Guitar class at the Musicians Institute (MI and GIT), where he continues to teach. In 1991, his CD It's Not Goodnight was released

Hub Hildenbrand

Born: September 12, 1971

Hub Hildenbrand (guitar, composition) studied at Music Conservatory in Rotterdam (NL) and with full scholarship at Berklee College of Music (Boston/USA). Student of Mick Goodrick, John Abercrombie, George Ruckert... Intensive study of turkish music (maqam). Conservatory of Turkish Music, Berlin. One of the very few musicians who have successfully adapted turkish microtonality to the guitar by means of string bending. Student of oud-master Nuri Karademirli. Intensive study of north indian Classical Music. Student of sarod-master Ranajit Sengupta. 5-month study in Calcutta, India (scholarship from Berlin government), followed by "The door we never opened", a solo-CD where Hildenbrand plays a double neck guitar, which he drafted himself and was built by Calcutta-based luthier Mukunda Biswas. Repeatedly featured by press (Jazzzeit, Jazzpodium, Jazzthetik, Jazzthing...), radio (rbb Kulturradio, Deutschlandradio Kultur, All India Radio...) and TV (Arte, ZDF, HR...)

Dave Haskell

Born: December 3, 1953

The history of jazz is strewn with brilliant players who have inexplicably eluded widespread recognition, flying under the radar of labels, journalists, and fans. But guitarist David Haskell’s stealth status over the past two decades isn’t hard to explain. He’s spent most of that time on the move as a commercial pilot, fulfilling a dream that took root as a child, about the same time he became enamored with the guitar. Before Haskell took to the air as a profession, he was a widely respected improviser at the center of the San Francisco jazz scene, a versatile, blues-drenched player often heard as a sideman and bandleader at high profile venues like Keystone Korner. Now that he’s hung up his wings, Haskell is once again making waves on the Bay Area scene, working with a superlative band