Results for "guitar"

Billy Kaiser

Born: May 16, 1967

I am a jazz guitarist specializing in Hot Club Gypsy Jazz. I work in a duo named Tesoro with my wife, violinist Gina Guidarelli. www.tesorojazz.com

RK Dawkins

Born: June 8, 1960

After producing, engineering and mixing other artists' R&B and hip-hop projects for 20 years in the Detroit area, RK DAWKINS has just released JOURNEY, his first solo effort. Drawing on old school jazz influences from the 70s such as Ronnie Laws, Herbie Hancock, Bob James, Norman Connors, the Crusaders, Earth Wind and Fire and others, most of the compositions have a decidedly funky element. Much of the music of the '70s, whether jazz or R&B (not to mention funk), had a funky bass line, guitar and/ or drum bed, because after all, it WAS the era of funk. Dawkins believes, like James Brown, that "whatseneva I play, gots to be funky!" Thus, Journey pays homage to the artists and music of the funk- laden jazz era

John Worsham

Born: January 8, 1959

Born in Fort Worth, Texas to a Baptist minister father and an English teacher mother, John Worsham began singing at a young age in church and school. At the age of ten he began playing guitar and began studying classical guitar at the age of twelve. He took classical guitar lessons from G. Ricardo Fusco of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra until the age of fourteen, when he began writing songs of his own after the death of his mother. John's first recording experience was at the age of 17 in Falls Church, Virginia. Fresh out of Fork Union Military Academy, he worked with Mike Auldridge (Seldom Seen, Linda Rondstadt) on a recording project with Allen Griffin

Michael Joseph Sebastian Walker

Born: July 10, 1962

Born in Salford in 1962, Mike Walker started relatively late (16) in music, picking up his Brother's Guitar and re-tuning it to trace the lush chords that had initially caught his ear in early Joni Mitchell songs and Weather Report Instrumentals. He became an avid fan of Steely Dan and copped Larry Carlton Solos by ear, as well as the rich harmonies and quirky melodic twists of Fagen and Becker. The obvious Jazz influence that permeates much of that music lead him to look back and dig deeper into the history and mystery of jazz and some of its major protagonists including Wes, Ed Bickert, Joe Pass and Jim Hall, as well as the great exponents of Piano, Sax and Trumpet such as Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Cannonball Adderley, Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard. Influenced in many directions from Rock (His Brother, Alan) Song (His Sister, Bet) and a broad spectrum of Jazz (His Brother, Paul) Mike became noted for his ability to be creative in a number of musical settings. Mike has performed and recorded with Steve Swallow, Dave Holland, Steve Rodby, Palle Danielson, Arild Anderson, Peter Erskine, Adam Nussbaum, John Marshall, Bob Moses, Bill Frisell, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Vince Mendoza, Mike Gibbs, Mark Anthony Turnage, Tal Farlow, Palle Mikkelborg, Mica Paris and Norma Winstone. He toured Europe and the States and recorded with the George Russell 'Living Time' Orchestra with whom he was a member for 18 years. In May 2008, Mike released his debut album 'Madhouse and the Whole Thing There' to wide critical acclaim

Magnus Jønnum Grimnes

Born: April 4, 1988

www.magnusjgrimnes.com Magnus Jønnum Grimnes was born in Kongsberg on the 4 April, 1988. He works in the field of improvised music. Started playing acoustic guitar at the age of 14, but after a year it was changed to the electric guitar. He has a bachelor degree from the Norwegian academy of music. Compositional work revolves around the bands he is playing in and currently the most active ones are KIAP, Gúo and Nilasalin.

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Lorenzo Price

Born: June

Marco Bittelli

Born: February 16, 1967

Born in 1967 in Bologna, Italy, Marco Bittelli was 12 when he began playing the guitar. He began seriously studying jazz guitar under the tutelage of Jimmy Villotti, a noted Italian jazz guitarist who recorded with Paolo Conte, Francesco Guccini, W. Dockery and Bobby Durham. He went on to perform widely with professional trumpet player Riccardo Pittau. In 1992 he traveled to Los Angeles, California to take workshops from legendary jazz guitar greats Joe Pass and Joe Diorio. He moved to the West Coast of the United States in 1996 and began playing regularly in the Washington State University Big Band and a series of jazz combo and quartets

Carlos Odria

Born: July 7

Peruvian-born guitarist Carlos Odria has been described as a "breathtakingly talented musician with immense technical skill" (Worcester Telegram) and as a "guitar wizard" (Gamble Rogers Fest). His original compositions and arrangements of jazz standards and Latin American tunes deliver an exciting blend of international styles such as bossa nova, Afro-Peruvian festejo, rumba flamenca, and Afro-Caribbean vibes, all imbued with an improvisational approach inspired by the rich tradition of American jazz. He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Florida State University, where he also obtained a Certificate in Music of the Americas. He studied classical and Latin American folk guitar with the acclaimed Peruvian guitarist Pepe Torres. Later on, he pursued advanced jazz studies with Richie Zellon, jazz guitar arranging with Leo Welch, and Venezuelan cuatro at the Jose Luis Paz Conservatory in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Brad Thomson

Born: January 7, 1975

Expressing the human condition through six strings.