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Luis Dagostino

Born: August 24, 1964

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina,Luis D’Agostino is a virtuoso player whose styles span the spectrum from the flashiest of rock music to the most subtle and sensitive jazz interpretations. After moving to the UK in 1999,where he lived until March 2008, Luis performed in several of the most important venues of the country with his own trio and in duo with fellow guitarist Pete Oxley like The Royal Festival Hall (London), The National Theatre (London),The Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Pizza Express (Soho, London), The 606 Club (Chelsea, London), Festival of Arts of Edimburg, Lewis Guitar Festival, Stratford Jazz Club, The Hollywell Music Room (Oxford), Marlborough Jazz Festival and several UK’s Guitar Festivals among others. He recorded during that period one album as a band leader ("In Between", Flat Five Records) and two albums with Pete Oxley ("The Play of Light" and "Double Singular" for 33 Records). He also has been Senior Lecture at Oxford Brookes University in Oxford for seven years and played as a free lance musician with some of the most exciting players in the UK scene. Between 1983 and 1995, Luis toured extensively through Latin America and Europe with several artist of the popular "New Song" movement

Jan Esterlis

Ukranian born guitar player

Chuck Anderson

Born: June 21, 1947

Chuck Anderson was born in Chicago, Ilinois on June 21st, 1947. At a young age, the family moved first to the Chicago suburb of Broadview then, to Westchester. When Chuck was 12, the Anderson family moved to Pennsylvania. He attended St. Katherine of Sienna grade school in Wayne, PA. Basketball was a passion and looked like a possible career. Devon Prep was his high school of choice. Noted more for academic excellence than for sports, Chuck nevertheless continued his involvement in basketball. His discovery of guitar was completely accidental. Once, he played his first Em chord, music went forward and basketball went backward

Jeff Parker

Born: April 4, 1967

Jeff Parker (b. Bridgeport, Connecticut USA) is a guitarist, composer/arranger/producer and educator. A longtime member of the influential indie-band Tortoise, Parker is recognized as one of contemporary music’s most versatile and innovative electric guitarists and composers. With a prolific output characterized by musical ideas of angularity and logic, he works in a wide variety of mediums - from pop, rock and jazz to new music—using ideas informed by innovations and trends in both popular and experimental forms. He creates works that explore and exploit the contrary relationships between tradition and technology, improvisation and composition, and the familiar and the abstract. His sonic palette may employ techniques from sample-based technologies, analog and digital synthesis, and conventional and extended techniques from over 35 years of playing the guitar. An integral part of what has become known as “The Modern Chicago Sound" he is also a founding member of the critically acclaimed and innovative groups Isotope 217˚ and Chicago Underground, and has been an associate member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1995

James Cannings

JAMES CANNINGS’ BIOGRAPHY JAMES CANNINGS, international recording musician/businessman, accomplished guitarist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, songwriter, producer, TV host and studio engineer

Larry Brown Jr.

Born: January 1

Falling in love with music is easy, and that was the case for a five year old boy from Venice, IL. At the age of five, Larry Brown picked up the guitar from his father and has not put it down since. Upon completing high school,Brown attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) to study with legendary 7-string guitarist Rick Haydon. Through the years, he has had the opportunity to learn from jazz legends such as Pat Martino, Houston Person, Jimmy Cobb, Victor Goines, John Scofield and Russell Malone. He has also performed at some of the country’s greatest jazz festivals and venues including the St

Steve Giordano

Born: April 3, 1952

Steve Giordano is a Philadelphia jazz guitarist in great company. He has lived, learned, loved and played in the most evolutionary age of creative music in America. Early teachers were by way of radio and then 45 and LP records from the nineteen fifties. Giordano learned from the best: screaming guitar solos from Elvis Presley's guitarist Scotty Moore then lured to jazz by {{Dave Brubeck = 5391}}, {{Art Blakey = 5069}}'s Jazz Messengers and {{John Coltrane = 5851}}. The first spoken jazz lesson was from a Columbia LP with Leonard Bernstein called What is Jazz.—every note of {{Wes Montgomery = 9528}}; then, {{Jim Hall = 7345}}

Terry Medeiros

Terry Medeiros is an award winning professional Jazz and Blues guitarist, private guitar and ukulele instructor, music composer and music producer. He has performed at venues such as The Fillmore West, Concord Pavilion, Starlight Amphitheatre, Doheny Blues Festival, Doug Weston’s Troubadour, The Whiskey (a go-go). He has shared the stage with Ella Fitzgerald, Bonnie Raitt, Herbie Hancock, Freddy Fender, Chuck Berry, Mary Wells, Tommy Sands, Nolan Porter, Martin Mull, Jack Temption and many others. He has released seven albums to date and his current projects include a blues duo “The Count & Colonel” and a jazz trio with the ever-energetic Chris “Pops” Banta

Jason Reazor

Jason Reazor started playing the piano at age six, and he moved to the guitar at age fourteen. While he was mostly interested in free-spirited Rock guitar, Jason studied Classical guitar for about two years with formal guidance at a small and very dedicated music school in Wilmington, Delaware. Several years later he decided it was time to explore Jazz. That was when he realized that the one single reason he plays music is: It's just plain fun. It’s fun to be creative with music. It’s fun to be silly with music. It’s even fun to be tired with music. Now at age 38, Jason is just enjoying the sound of each note, and he would like to share this enjoyment with as many people as he can.

Jim Weider

Born: December 21, 1951

JIM WEIDER, former member of the legendary group "THE BAND" is a Master of classic Telecaster Guitar.ProJECT PERCoLAToR represents Jim's newest musical venture into a powerful groove & atmospheric guitar driven band. The All Star Line up Featuring "RODNEY HOLMES"- Drums (Santana&Steps Ahead ), "MITCH STEIN"- Guitar (Dave Sanborn Band )&"STEVE LUCAS"- on Bass. Jim blends rock & blues, with funk & jazz groove's combining modern drum loops and samples, to playing beautiful melodic ballads .The band's Amazing improvisation and chemistry from worldwide touring ,plays a show both exciting and mesmerizing! www.myspace.com/jimweiderband ProJECT PERCoLAToR is a new musical direction for Jim, with Big Guitars with Modern Grooves! A powerful show that's both exciting and mesmerizing! For a quick listen check out the below link provided