Results for "guitar"

Joe Negri

In 1999, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust honored me by naming me the "Established Artist of the Year." I remember telling them that my career has been a "work in progress" since age three. As a child performer, I performed on radio and appeared in theatrical and stage productions throughout the tri-state area. I was even chosen to become one of Pittsburgh's "Stars of Tomorrow." A voice change shattered my confidence and I stopped performing. Shortly after, I began to seriously study the guitar. By age sixteen, I was playing well enough to win a job with one of the country's top swing bands. I soon became a featured member of the band and traveled nationally with them for about two years

Jay Umble

Born: May 13, 1956

Jay Umble has studied with world-renowned guitarists Pat Martino and Joe Diorio and has released three recordings which incorporate straight ahead/ modern jazz and contemporary styles. His latest recording project, "Spirit Crossing" with international percussionist, Jamey Haddad is a world beat / adult contemporary project. To order album, go to cdbaby.com. He is on the faculty of Bucknell University and Susquehanna University where he teaches guitar mechanics, harmony/theory and fretboard integration in addition to general guitar playing. He has several instructional books published through Mel Bay Publications with endorsements from such jazz greats as Steve Kahn, Pat Martino, Paul Bollenback, Joe Diorio, Barry Greene, Sid Jacobs and Rene Stefano

Angelo Branford

Born: November 27, 1965

Guitar player: jazz, latino, pop, rock, blues, reggae. Band leader, Composer, Guitar teacher, Musical Director, musician for theater plays, music proofreader.

Scott Newell

Born: January 1, 1970

Scott Newell started his musical life learning trumpet, and was drawn to the guitar in the golden age of electric guitar heroes. Scott grew up under a broad influence of 70's and 80's rock, funk, soul, disco and pop music. In his 20's he fell under the spell of Miles Davis and all the connections that spring from the Miles legacy.

Henry Johnson Jazz

Born: January 28, 1954

The Chicago-born guitarist began playing at age twelve. While spending some formative time in Memphis, he started playing gospel music at age thirteen. By age fourteen, Johnson was playing in R&B groups. Although Johnson's parents brought him up hearing the music of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Joe Williams, and other artists of that era, it was not until 1967 that Johnson was formally introduced to jazz by hearing guitarist Wes Montgomery. In 1969, Johnson and his family then moved back to Chicago where he developed a reputation on the south side as a good local jazz guitarist. In 1976, he went on the road with jazz organist Jack McDuff and was called to work with vocalist, Donny Hathaway in 1977

Nate Radley

Nate Radley is Brooklyn-based guitarist and composer who leads his own group, can be heard with a variety of collaborative projects, and works as a sideman in numerous bands both in the New York area and around the world. Nate’s first cd as a leader “The Big Eyes” came out in January of 2012 on the Fresh Sound/New Talent label. The cd includes nine of his original compositions performed by Nate on guitar, Loren Stillman on saxophone, Pete Rende on fender Rhodes, Matt Pavolka on bass, and Ted Poor on drums. In addition to leading his own band Nate performs frequently with the collaborative band “Bad Touch” which includes Loren Stillman and Ted Poor, as well as Gary Versace on organ

Jim Disner

Born: September 9, 1977

Jim Disner is a guitarist and composer in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Disner has been involved with music his entire life. In his school days he had the good fortune to study jazz and guitar with Ron Miles, Jerry Hahn, Dale Bruning and Fred Hess. His guitar tone is reminiscent of Jim Hall, seasoned with modern effects and techniques that resemble Bill Frisell. His compositional style crosses boundaries of genre. It is ambient and melodic. Along with solo performances, Jim currently plays with Three Squared, Tonali, the Antwon Owens Group, Joshua Trinidad, Erica Papillon-Posey and is one of the founding members of the now defunct Underdog 5. Jim Disner, Antwon Owens and Nathan Walter make up the band/rhythm section Three Squared

Seretse Small

Born: September 27, 1967

Jamaican guitarist Seretse Small, in 2007, celebrates 20 year as a professional musician. Music, in general, guitar artistry, in particular, began for him as a student at the Jamaica School of Music later he would attend Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory of Music in the United States. His greatest learning experience, however, comes outside curriculum cutting his teeth in live performances in reggae and jazz. While Seretse spent the past three years on a world tour with Grammy-winning reggae artiste Sean Paul, it is as a jazz guitarist that he made his own name in Jamaica and across the Caribbean

Zacc Harris

Born: March 23, 1978

Since moving to Minneapolis in 2005, Zacc Harris has gained a reputation as one of the area's top guitarists, being named 2017 Twin Cities Best Jazz Artist by the City Pages. He performs in a host of creative projects including Atlantis Quartet, winner of the 2015 McKnight Fellowship and named 2011 Best Jazz Artist, as well as the Zacc Harris Group, American Reverie, and Zacc Harris Trio which has had the longest running weekly jazz gig in Minnesota since 2007.  
  Harris has toured as leader and sideman throughout the US and UK, including a 2016 run with Zacc Harris Group at London's famed Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

Eddy Goltz

Born: December 2, 1955

Eddy Goltz (guitar, piano, vocals, composer), born in Fargo, USA, has been performing since the 1960’s. On the music scene in Spain and Portugal for two decades and in major Shanghai live music venues since 2005, including the 2010 Shanghai Music Festival, his versatile combo Eddy Goltz Jazz Navigators features multitalented and experienced World-Jazz musicians and an outstanding vocal and instrumental repertoire offering intimate listening, exciting improvisation and grooving dance music ranging from Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong to Swing or Tango, Salsa to Samba, B.B. King’s Blues to Ray Charles’ or Stevie Wonder’s Soul and R & B, from Tropical to Bossa Nova, modern Brazilian or Afro-Latin Jazz, to Chinese songs or uncommon world-music repertoires