Bob Sneider

Guitarist/composer/educator Bob Sneider is currently the Jazz Guitar Professor at the world-renowned Eastman School of Music. Sneider performs a multi-faceted role at Eastman as Instructor of Jazz Guitar at the Eastman's Community Education Division and Jazz & Contemporary Media Department. Before joining the Eastman faculty in 1997, Bob Sneider won Downbeat's 1989 "Outstanding Performance in High School Jazz" award; an award he duplicated at the collegiate level in 1993. Sneider toured with two-time Grammy Award Winner Chuck Mangione for nearly four years. Other notable performers with whom Sneider has performed include: Nat Adderley, Don Menza, Nick Brignola, Houston Person, Etta Jones, Nnenna Freelon, Gene Ludwig, Steve Gadd, Gerry Niewood, Ralph Lalama, Roy McCurdy, Freddie Cole, Jon Faddis, Keeter Betts and frequent appearances with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Pops(guitar/banjo)

Big Paul

Born: January 25, 1960

Paulo Sérgio Catharino, Big Paul, was born in São Paulo (capital) in 25/01/60. In the end of this decade,after the rock bands THC and Beco Paulista , Big Paul forms some instrumental bands, as Fast Fusion and Alchemy 3, this last one beside Jorge Pescara (bass player) and Gilberto Vieira (drums). After a long period out of the music, Big returns with a work focused in blues, and form the band Corners Blues. Jazz & Blues, Cultural Center, Kazebre Rock Bar, Video Chopp, Dama Rock Café, Arch of the Old, musicians Demma K, Bocato, Claudio Celso, Ivan Busic, was part of the circle of Big.

Mark Mosley

Born: February 25

Mark Mosley was only 11 years old when he first picked up the guitar. That one single act put him on the road of a lifelong musical adventure that would allow him to discover a deep love of many different styles of music. The Blues first lit his soul - particularly the styles of B.B. King, Freddie King and Albert Collins; and then it was jazz that caught his attention! During a high school band trip to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, he became mesmerized after seeing a live performance from Oscar Peterson, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Les McCann, Eddie Harris, and David “Fathead” Newman

Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe, Professor of Music in Jazz Studies Program, Leadership Board Fellow (03-06). M.M., Eastman School of Music; B.M., Capital University. Studied with Gene Bertoncini, Rayburn Wright, Bill Dobbins. Recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Wolfe is the first jazz musician to receive this honor. Kennedy Center/USIA Jazz Ambassador. Toured several countries of North and West Africa under the auspices of this prestigious program. Awarded by the Druid Arts Council Musician of the Year. Wolfe has served as president of the Alabama Chapter of the International Association for Jazz Education - is currently the webmaster for this organization

David King

Born: July 18, 1965

David has been playing guitar since he was 8 but it became a serious concern when, in his teens he started going to gigs at Glasgow's legendary venue The Apollo in the early eighties witnessing guitar hero's galore including Alex Lifeson, Angus Young, and Andy Summers. David has consumed all things guitar ever since including the Jazz genius of Martin Taylor and Pat Metheny and effects influenced players such as The Edge and Charlie Burchill of Simple Minds and the acoustic work of Tommy Emmanuel and Acoustic Alchemy. Having exhausted all possibilities in various bands he returned to his home studio and gained a degree in Media Music Composition recognized by the Film Music Institute of Los Angeles. David has just completed his debut album of guitar instrumentals encompassing some smooth jazz grooves with a hint of fusion and just for the hell of it the occasional big rock solo to ! The album, " Strangely Familiar " is now available from the very fine people of CD Baby - or the equaly fine people of iTunes - please click on the links below

Glen Helgeson

Coming soon.

Rue Protzer

Born: March 6, 1966

Vita

Sound, aesthetics and musical versatility make Rue Protzer a sought-after musician within the German and international music landscape – “an exceptional phenomenon” (Jazzzeitung) / “a highly sensitive guitar poet” (Jazzpodium).

It’s hard to put Rue Protzer in a single drawer. He works as a guitarist, bandleader, composer, producer, writer and songwriter. “Music knows no boundaries. Whether it’s a simple pop song or a complex instrumental work, there are many ways to create good music. It’s exciting for me to always go for new musical ways. ”

Sandy Prager

Born: December 25, 1958

Born in Brooklyn in 1958, composer and guitarist Sandy Prager has been playing guitar since the age of 12. He is a seventh-generation musician which includes his father, jazz trombonist Bert Prager, who was also his first teacher. In addition, his grandmother was a klezmer singer of note. Add growing up in Latin-flavored Miami and you have a good idea of the rich varieties of musics which go into Prager's compositional melting pot. While in Miami, he studied at the University of Miami and with jazz giant Ira Sullivan, eventually landing in Boston to study at the Berklee College of Music. In addition to performing his own works, Prager has written for television

Tim Miller

Guitarist Tim Miller contributes his fiery playing and distinctive sound to a variety of musical statements ranging from jazz to rock. He can currently be heard on two self-produced CDs, "Sides" and "Trio". Miller was profiled in Guitar Player Magazine, which characterized his playing as "pure melody consciousness... [with] remarkable control, a breathy, violiny tone [and] bell-like consistency." Miller's music combines explosive raw energy, artistically balanced with soulful melodic compositions. Miller is a native of Michigan whose musical interests have taken him to Texas, Paris, New York and presently, Boston where his is currently an Assistant Professor of guitar at Berklee College of Music

Bob DeVos

With long, blues-drenched melodic lines, and a fat, warm, horn-like sound, guitarist and composer Bob DeVos has his own signature style. Critics universally cite Mr. DeVos' "full, liquid tone" and "soulful, intelligent interpretations and superb, modern compositional skiils". Hailed as "the thinking man's guitar hero" and "a brilliant, knowing bebop player", Bob's CDs as a leader for Savant/HighNote and Blues Leaf Records have earned high praise and many stars in Downbeat and throughout the jazz media. His 2006 CD Shifting Sands on Savant was 28 weeks in the top twenty on JazzWeek.com's National Airplay Chart and on many top ten jazz CDs of 2006 and a WBGOFM Jazz Radio "Play of the Month"