Results for "guitar, electric"

Vinicius Rosa

Born: January 19, 1974

Either in the recording studio, on stage, Vinicius Rosa has been recording of his first instrumental CD. After five years playing with the amazing brazilian singer Ana Carolina, Vinicius is playing with the singer / songwriter Jay Vaquer. In these shows, Vinicius is also responsible for musical direction. In the 14 years of professional career, Vinicius highlights two special moments: as a member of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra in the opening presentation of the Rock in Rio 3, 2001, and when he played in the event of the Olympic torch relay by Rio de Janeiro in 2004. On this occasion, shared the stage with about 30 renowned artists, among them Ivete Sangalo, Alcione, Elba Ramalho, Samuel Rosa, Paula Toller e Jorge Benjor. In 2008, Vinicius Rosa was invited to perform at the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, with Lulu Santos's band, honored at the 15th edition of the Multishow

Pablo Blanco

Born: January 1, 1963

Long trayectory in teaching, as in performance in the top clubs of Buenos Aires.

Anthony Pirog

Born: February 22, 1980

Anthony Pirog is a guitarist who currently lives in New York City but honed his unique take on freely improvised music while living in the Washington DC area. He is a guitarist well versed in many genres of music and performs as a solo musician, in a duo with cellist Janel Leppin and leads his own trio and sextet. As a composer, he is adventurous and explores the possibilities that the guitar, both acoustic and electric, has to offer. He has recently released his first solo CD on Sonic Mass Records titled Beginning to End, which is a collection of guitar improvisations. Mr. Pirog has mastered the use of many effects pedals and his performances produce an eclectic set of improvisations

Ray Ferretti

Born: July 31, 1958

Ray Ferretti started playing guitar in his early teens and was first drawn to music by the 70’s rock bands. Moving on to rhythm and blues and funk he started to gravitate toward jazz via Joe Pass. After hearing Wayne Shorter and Tribal Tech fusion bands he realized the style of music he wanted to play and compose. In the 90’s started to explore jazz fusion composition.

After 10 year hiatus Ray starting releaseing new music under 'Old Men Rock Records'.

Ray likes combing many styles into each composition which was sparked by a conversion with Pat Martino. I was with Pat at his parents place in South Philly and he went to take a phone call and I started looking at his album collection and I came across a Earth, Wind and Fire album which kind of shocked me and I ask me him about it and Pat said "take the best from whatever you like and make it your own" and that statment formed my style, a fusion of different elements.

Alex Jacquemin

Born: January 6, 1971

Alex Jacquemin is a modern jazz guitarist with a driving penchant for originality, daring and challenge. Born in France, he did not pick up his first guitar until the age of 16, but worked on his mastery of the intrument with such disciplined devotion that he was formally teaching others how to play by his fourth year. Renowned for his amazing ability to blend into any musical scenario, Alex played in a number of eclectic bands such as the electro-rock ensemble Zend Avesta, the Brazilian group Vitto and the world music band Canaïma. He also played throughout Europe in major venues and festivals, and recorded a number of albums in ever-changing styles, including the progressive jazz-rock power trio format of Underground 95-02 and the 2000 album Story of, his way of whisking early `60s Blue Note boogaloo into the future

Michelle Webb

Multi-String instrumentalist Michelle Webb is a restless collaborator who is engaged in exploring and extending the boundaries of her instruments. Michelle Webb's guitar playing is often described as incredibly creative and innovative. A FORCE OF NATURE. Her playing is visceral, with a expressionistic approach to creating timbre and velocities. Constantly discovering new sonorities on her guitar, she has created a uniquely personal language which speaks to audiences. Influenced at first by Allan Holdsworth, Don Mock & B.B. King, Michelle found great inspiration in the highly charged expression of their music

Michel Delville

Born: April 30, 1969

Michel Delville is a musician, writer and lecturer born in Liège, Belgium. His recent musical projects - most of which are signed to New York-based label MoonJune Records - include The Wrong Object, Machine Mass feat. Dave Liebman, douBt, Comicoperando, Trank Zappa Grappa in Varese and 48Cameras. He has played and recorded with Elton Dean, Dave Liebman, Annie Whitehead, Harry Beckett, Chris Cutler, Robin Verheyen, Richard Sinclair, Ed Mann, Tony Bianco, Alex Maguire, Dagmar Krause, Benoît Moerlen, Karen Mantler, Geoff Leigh, Robin Rimbaud, John Edwards, Stanley Zappa, Gilad Atzmon, and many others jazz & rock luminaries. The last few years have been a productive period, with recording and touring taking Delville to many different countries, including Japan, the United States, Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Wales, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Greece

Darryl Kanouse

Darryl is a multi-instrumentalist and producer. Darryl's credits include guitar in the experimental/jazz/thrash band Melic Sub Rosa, bass in the free jazz group The Blueprint Ensemble, and bass in the electronic/trip-hop ensemble Sonic Wave Society. Darryl was also the Managing Director for the digital label Redline Park and the founding member and resident multi-instrumentalist of the Los Angeles Audio Improvisation Lab. He has collaborated with hundreds of musicians in diverse genres, from hip-hop to classical.

Justin Rothberg

Born: July 1, 1980

Justin currently lives in Manhattan, he is an active member of The Brooklyn Attractors, Sdoun, The Rocksteady 7, Taylor Faith, The Shrine Big Band and other on going projects as a sideman. As an educator, Justin is on the faculty at the Mason Gross music school (Rutgers) and teaches guitar privately in Manhattan Justin has performed with many acts, some notable ones are Sister Nancy, Matisyahu, Julie Dexter, Adam Rogers, Luciana Suza, Congo Ashanti Roy, Frank London, Zoro,The Gaylads, Ari-up, Constantine Maroulis, Uzimon. He has toured with various group across America, Canada, Europe, and Japan, several times

Victor Contreras

Guitarist/Composer Victor Contreras is the leader of the Latin Jazz group Nagual. Nagual has released two fully independent releases, both of which consist of all original compositions.