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Kenny Carr

Kenny Carr is a classically trained guitar player and composer living in New York City. Kenny performs his original jazz, blues, funk and fusion instrumental music with trio, quartet and other ensembles. Kenny has published five albums recorded with NY, LA and other musicians to include Donny McCaslin, Kenny Wollesen, Hans Glawischnig, George Laks, Andy Hess, Tony Mason, Tom Baldwin and Frank Russo. Kenny began playing violin at age nine but by 11 realized his true passion was the guitar. Growing up in Santa Cruz, CA, with its inspiring natural beauty set the stage for Kenny’s musical career

Giga Shane

Born: February 3, 1979

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Sean Kelly

Born: October 13, 1987

Sean Kelly, born on October 13, 1987, began playing the guitar when he was thirteen years old, on an acoustic guitar purchased from eBay. Not even a year had passed before Sean decided strumming the same old chords and struggling with higher notes on the acoustic was not what he wanted to be doing. For his 14th birthday, his parents gave him an entry level electric guitar/amp starter package. Sean took lessons from a local instructor Jim Rutkowski for almost five years. During this time, he focused on rock guitar. Sean composed a few of his own songs in this genre, one of which is still online to be heard at http://www.purevolume.com/seanpkelly. His sophmore year of highschool, Sean joined his highschool jazz band and concert band

Gary Bruno

Born: March 26, 1962

Born in New Jersey, Gary Bruno began studying guitar at age seven. He showed an interest in music at the age of five with Drums leading the way. Soon after, the drums were put aside to make way for guitar. Taking weekly lessons Gary almost immediately showed prodigious technique and a hunger for learning music. Gary attributes this early desire to his Mom & Dad providing him with a radio which seemed to go everywhere with him as early as age three. He went to sleep with music on and awoke much the same. After a short period of guitar lessons Gary began to learn the songs of the day from the radio

JJ Sansaverino

Over the past several years, guitarist Joe "JJ" Sansaverino has reached millions with his music, touring the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, the South Pacific and the Caribbean. He has worked with the best in the business in a wide range of idioms, both live and in the studio, and has appeared on hundreds of recordings. Now, with the release of his debut album Sunshine After Midnight, JJ puts forward a stunning selection of his original compositions, with the help of a stellar array of musicians, producers and special guests. Sunshine After Midnight is a diverse showcase of original guitar styles-including R&B, jazz, rock, fusion and JJ's trademark ballad style-featuring many of NYC's finest musicians

Roman Miroshnichenko

Born: June 4, 1977

Roman Miroshnichenko is a multi-Award-winning virtuoso guitarist, composer, producer and recording engineer. He is one of the premier guitarists of the new generation of the jazz-fusion music. Voting member of the Recording Academy/GRAMMY®. He has received a total of 50-plus nominations with 25 wins in multiple international songwriting contests and music awards in 9 countries, including four the Independent Music Awards, four the Hollywood Music in Media Awards nominees, "Best Jazz Award" (1st Prize) and "Best Instrumental Award" (1st Prize) of the USA Songwriting Competition, 1st Prize of the International Acoustic Music Awards, Gold medal of the Global Music Awards, World Entertainment Award, Josie Music Awards "Musician of the Year" winner, Film Music Contest absolute winner and 5-times laureate of the United Kingdom Songwriting Contest.

Andre Avelino

Born: September 11, 1900

ABBREVIATED MUSICAL BIOGRAPHY Howard University played a pivotal role in the musical development of guitarist Andre Avelino. Howard Univ. was populated by a sizeable community of diverse global origins; Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Costa Rica, California, Mississippi, Alabama, New York etc. etc., all of which helped to nurture ones artistic sensibilities. Upon graduation, he joined the band of the late and dearly beloved Maria Rodriguez where he performed as guitarist and tres player. She served as a mentor and constantly encouraged the guitarist to compose and arrange while fostering the confidence that eventually led him to compose for various bands in Puerto Rico

Nahum Zdybel

Born: April 6, 1986

Nahum Thelonious Zdybel is Sacramento's quietest guitarist. A skilled performer and devout student of the guitar, his style is subtle, redoubtable, and sympathetic. He has performed with some of Sacramento's most notable jazz musicians and studied guitar with Steve Homan, Henry Robinett, Bruce Forman, Howard Alden, Jeff Miley, and Matt Grasso, as well as jazz improvisation with Joe Gilman. He has been growing a beard for six months.

Greg Kingston

After an ordinary start to life on the 29th of December 1954, it wasn't until around eight years later that Tourette's Syndrome entered Greg Kingston's life. In it's 'only it knows how' bizarre way, and of course unbeknown to him, Tourettes set him off on a course that was most unlikely without it. For all the frustrations, both physical and mental, Tourettes has proved to be a unique and extremely personal benefit to Kingston as an improviser. On the on hand, there's the quirky lightening quickness of response and on the other, the constant battle against the scourge of obsessive repetition that Tourettes imposes

Jim Briggs

Born: May 17, 1983