Results for "guitar"

Doug McMillan

Born: May, 1990

Doug McMillan is a guitarist based in North London. He performs at venues big and small around the country in many diverse contexts. Doug has been extremely fortunate to have been taught by Dave Cliff, Mike Walker, Jez Franks, Percy Pursglove, Zsolt Bende, Mike Williams, Simon King, John Taylor, and Fred T. Baker.

Al Garcia

Born: September 1, 1958

Born in Newark, NJ, Al began playing the bass guitar at the age of 13. He was influenced early on by Jack Bruce and Felix Papalardi, two bass visionaries who helped expand the role of the bass guitar in rock music. His musical horizons were broadened to include Jazz, Classical, and Indian music after hearing John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Later on, the music of Allan Holdsworth inspired Alfred to take up the electric guitar as a means of expressing another side of his musical persona. Other influences on his playing include the music of J.S. Bach, Charlie Parker, Bela Bartok, Eric Johnson, Jaco Pastorious, Jeff Berlin, Brand X, ELP, Yes and pianist Bill Evans. Al has performed and recorded many types of music

Stuart McCallum

Born: February 21, 1978

'Stuart McCallum is simply the most talented and original guitarist that I have ever heard' (Brian Bicat JATP) Stuart's original use of loops and effects combined with his extensive harmonic knowledge make him one of the most in demand guitarists on the scene today. He has recorded with The Cinematic Orchestra, Ari Hoenig, Tim Garland and Don Weller and has performed, to critical acclaim, with the likes of Kenny Wheeler, John Surman and Mike Gibbs. His music covers both ends of the emotional spectrum - from mesmerising beauty to explosively turbulent energy.

Pedro Bromfman

Born: January 20, 1976

Born in Rio de Janeiro and currently residing in Los Angeles, guitarist/composer Pedro Bromfman has been writing, playing and producing music professionally for over a decade. He graduated Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music, majoring in performance and composition, and went on to study film scoring at UCLA. A multi-faceted musician, Pedro has worked as a session musician, a producer and an arranger, before moving to Los Angeles. He started his professional career as a Jazz guitarist in Rio de Janeiro, playing and recording with some of the best musicians in Brazil. His desire to primarily perform his compositions and arrangements led him to create his own instrumental group

Joey Stuckey

Born: May 29, 1973

There are any number of credits, awards and accomplishments given Joey Stuckey throughout his multifaceted, 30-year career.

An award-winning artist, producer, educator, mentor, and speaker whose efforts transcend the boundaries of sight, sound, and genre, Joey has done it all, both personally and professionally. So too, there’s another credit that should be added to that list of achievements, and that’s of “Survivor.” Blind since the age of two, he’s overcome any number of life-threatening obstacles and medical issues and has gone on to achieve tremendous success in each endeavor he’s undertaken. 

James Beaudreau

Born: 1971

"Picking like this is always welcome," says guitar great Eugene Chadbourne, writing about James Beaudreau for All Music Guide. Beaudreau's playing reveals, he says, "a mind that can be provoked by intervals and melodies seemingly off-kilter with reality." Paris Transatlantic praised the guitarist's "Nick Drake-meets-Derek Bailey improvisations." All About Jazz lauded his "impressive inventiveness" and the "delicious ephemeral quality" of the music on his debut CD, Java Street Bagatelles. And Berlin-based website Tokafi.com called that CD "one of the most astounding between-the-genre[s] albums of 2006."

Fabien Degryse

Born: November 6, 1960

Born in 1960 in Brussels, Fabien Degryse is one of the leading jazz guitarist in Belgium and abroad. He has recorded twenty CD's, played with numerous musicians: Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine, Claudio Roditi among others. He has performed all over the world with the trio l'Ame des Poetes, with Steve Houben or with other bands. He teaches in the Conservatorium of Brussels and gave masterclasses in France, Tunisia, Algeria, Congo, Taiwan ... He wrote also an educational book about the jazz improvisation on the guitar, released by Combre, in Paris.

Mike Gellar

Born: March 16, 1957

Mike Gellar, a jazz guitarist with a distinctive harmonic approach to improvisation, cites Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery, Pat Martino and Emily Remler among his influences, which include horn players and other instrumentalists and vocalists as well. While mostly self-taught, Mike studied music theory at Frostburg State University and privately with guitarists Bill Bittner and Larry Woolridge. Born in Baltimore and residing near Hagerstown, Maryland, Mike performs in duo, trio, quartet and quintet settings in the Frederick, Baltimore, Washington and Harrisburg areas. His repertoire consists of swing, be-bop, cool and modern jazz from a vast variety of composers. Mike began playing guitar at age 9 and was soon playing Beatles tunes

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David White and Big Neighborhood

Born: March 16, 1960

Guitarist and composer David White has been turning the heads of those who have heard him for a number of years. Raised in South America and Spain, David is a critically acclaimed guitarist and innovative composer working in a highly original modern vein. He has spent the last 18 years in New York and Boston working with George Garzone, Valery Ponomarev, Jeff Ballard, John Lockwood, and Tim Armacost, among many others. He has recorded 6 CDs as a leader, toured extensively throughout North America and his music has been widely reviewed and acclaimed for incorporating diverse influences from Frank Zappa to Paul Hindemith to Led Zeppelin as a springboard for arrangement and improvisation, prompting All About Jazz -Seattle to write “White has staked out his own personal piece of the modern jazz landscape”