Results for "guitar"

Aaron Lehr

Born: September 25, 1978

Shu Odamura

Born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, Shu Odamura is a guitarist and composer based in New York City. During his years at Berklee College of Music, he started focusing on finger style on nylon string guitar and developed what became his signature voice. Shu released his debut album “Cloud Illusions” from What’s New Records in 2015 and the album was reviewed in All About Jazz, Minor 7th and Jazz Japan Magazine. While he remains active in the New York Jazz and contemporary music scene, he has worked with theater artists and groups including Watoku Ueno, Group.BR and Opera Pomme Rouge.

Chieli Minucci & Special EFX

Born: April 17

Guitarist, composer, and arranger Chieli Minucci is longtime leader of the Grammy-nominated jazz-fusion group CHIELI MINUCCI & SPECIAL EFX, a major force on the jazz and world music scene for well over 30 years. Besides writing and performing his own music, Chieli shares his guitar brilliance throughout the entertainment world. He has recorded and performed with many top artists, such as Celine Dion, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Lopez, Jewel, Mark Anthony, Michael Bolton, Anastasia, as well as jazz artists Kirk Whalum, Jeff Lorber, Norman Brown, Bernie Williams, Marion Meadows, Lao Tizer, Mindi Abair, Rick Braun, Gerald Veasley, Omar Hakim, and many others

Micha Schellhaas

Micha Schellhaas is an L.A.-based guitarist living his dream and fulfilling his mission to make music as a solo artist, accompanist and composer. In 2013, he released his first EP, Wings of Fire, recorded at the renowned Sunset Studios in Hollywood. Wings of Fire was produced by Carl Verheyen (Supertramp) who also performed on the tracks, and featuring several other industry veterans (Chad Wackerman (Frank Zappa), Dave Marotta (Burt Bacharach, Gino Vanelli), Jim Cox (Mark Knopfler, Robben Ford)). In December 2015 he released his first full length album DOUBLE TAKE featuring the same band and 9 brand new original tracks.Heavily influenced by classic rock, blues and jazz, Micha has been playing guitar since he was 9 years old

Kevin Fionn Murphy

Born: April 16, 1954

Vreny Van Elslande

Born: June 14, 1971

Today, Vreny is busier than ever. Under the umbrella of his company ZOT Zin Music, Vreny produces demos for various artists. Vreny’s playing has been compared to Steve Vai, Steve Morse, Steve Lukather, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, Carlos Santana, Joe Satriani, and Eric Johnson. He has often heard those names after one of his shows, and Vreny is happy to be in such great company. When he is not teaching, producing, or working on his guitar book, Vreny can be found onstage. Go catch him perform when you can, but be prepared to catch your breath! Vreny has tons of plans, goals, and dreams he is constantly working on

Gabriel Lambert

Born: August 13, 1978

Biography Gabriel Lambert is a guitarist, composer and producer in the world of jazz, improvised music and rock music. After completing a bachelor degree in jazz performance from McGill University in 2003, he had the privilege to study with Peter Bernstein in New York with the help of a development grant from the Canadian council for the arts. Gabriel is an active member of rock group Elephant Stone since 2010. The band has since released two full albums (Elephant Stone and The Three Poisons), and has gone on numerous tours to Europe and the United States. With a creation grant from the Quebec Arts Council in 2013, Gabriel has written music for two projects : first a collaboration with Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes) on an instrumental ambient project called Heavenly Banquet which was premiered at the Phenomena festival in a performance with artist Clea Minaker in 2014, and a jazz quartet record untitled Les Ondes Célestes, which was released at the Montreal Off Jazz festival in the fall of 2015.

Nicolas Delgado

Guitarist and composer In the year 2000 he started to study classical music (classical guitar, modern guitar, boleros) at the University of El Bosque in Bogotá. Two years later, in 2002, he traveled to Barcelona to study at Taller de Músic's (a school specializing in modern music) focusing on jazz. After 4 years of studies in Barcelona, ​​he began to work on salsa, bolero, Latin music, bossanova, pop, funk, but mainly in jazz, playing in well-known bars in the city. Parallel to his work to play, he teaches guitar and solfege in private schools, develops music for short films and makes musical arrangements for different projects. After spending 9 years in Barcelona, ​​he moved to the city of Munich

Jamie Murrell

Born: June 7, 1969

I am a guitarist and guitar teacher in the Dayton, Ohio area. I play Pop, Rock, Jazz, and other styles of American music. I grew up in Mt.Orab, Ohio about 40 miles outside of Cincinnati. Most of the music that I was exposed to was classic rock, country, gospel, and bluegrass. I started playing guitar when I was 10 years old in 1979. I had a teacher named Lloyd Hazelbaker when I was 13 and he was a western swing steel guitarist. He told me that I was going to be a jazz guitarist but I had no idea what jazz was. He went on to teach me a lot of old standards like "the Autumn Leaves"

Chris Billiau

Born: February 26, 1972

Chris Billiau is an accomplished 7-string jazz guitarist from Old Saybrook who performs solo and with local big bands such as the George Manstan Big Bag and String of Pearls. Hailing from the Chicago area, Chris studied guitar under Fareed Haque at Columbia College and jazz composition with Eddie Baker at Roosevelt University. Though thoroughly comfortable with modern jazz guitar playing, Chris's current work focuses on early pre-swing era guitar.