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Pasquale Grasso

It was the kind of endorsement most rising guitarists can only dream of, and then some. In his interview for Vintage Guitar magazine’s February 2016 cover story, Pat Metheny was asked to name some younger musicians who’d impressed him. “The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso,” said the jazz-guitar icon and NEA Jazz Master. “This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficult.

“Mostly what I hear now are guitar players who sound a little bit like me mixed with a little bit of [John Scofield] and a little bit of [Bill Frisell],” he continued. “What’s interesting about Pasquale is that he doesn’t sound anything like that at all. In a way, it is a little bit of a throwback, because his model—which is an incredible model to have—is Bud Powell. He has somehow captured the essence of that language from piano onto guitar in a way that almost nobody has ever addressed. He’s the most significant new guy I’ve heard in many, many years.”

Michel Heroux

Michel Héroux is a Montréal based musician. More at : https://miheroux.wixsite.com/miher

Dan Powell

Born: March 7, 1969

I was born in Essex and moved to London to study photography at The Polytechnic of Central London. After college I ran a gallery on the southbank, showed a few installations at galleries and was involved in the OMSK collective putting on arts events. Now I live in Brighton. I help run The Spirit of Gravity, play experimental music with other people in various combinations and go to my allotment.

Ricardo Grilli

Born: September 1, 1985

It would be easy to assume, at least from a North American perspective, that any musically inclined kid growing up in Brazil has to come under the pervasive influence of Antonio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. But for São Paulo native Ricardo Grilli, who was born decades after the heydays of samba and Tropicalia, American and British rock bands mattered a lot more. A guitarist, he was especially taken with Dire Straits, whose timeless classic, “Sultans of Swing,” he played in various bands as a teenager.

And when Grilli, who is now 27, discovered jazz through friends and visits to the local record shop, it was not through the works of seminal mainstream artists such as Stan Getz, Jobim’s great American collaborator, but the groundbreaking jazz-rock of Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew. “I completely related to that big, chaotic sound—that aesthetic really appealed to me,” he said. In short order, the “children” of Bitches Brew—Weather Report, Return to Forever, the Mahavishnu Orchestra—captivated him as well.

Jae Young Jeong

Born: December 30, 1980

Jae young Jeong is a guitarist, composer, and educator who began his musical life at the age of 16. He initially started with learning classical guitar at a music academy, but after a year he switched his main instrument to electric guitar. In 2000, he started to attend Seoul Jazz Academy to learn music more deeply. During that time, he was able to familiarize himself with various styles of music and get many opportunities of playing in concerts, gigs, and recording sessions. After graduating from Seoul Jazz Academy, he continued his studies by taking private lessons with good jazz guitarists in Korea

Pål Nyberg

Born: September 16, 1982

Pål Nyberg is an internationally working guitarist and composer. Over the past few years he has been involved in numerous international projects with collaborators from most parts of Europe, South and North America as well as the Far East. Since graduating the renowned Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2010, he has been busy traveling, playing with many of the great young improvisers of the diverse jazz and impro scene of Scandinavia and continental Europe.

Louis Bariohay

Born: May 4, 1963

Louis Bariohay discovered the guitar at the age of ten years, the Academy of Music in Marseille. Then he participated in two "International Music Seminar" in which he detailed his knowledge of the instrument JOE DIORIO TAL FARLOW, FRANK GAMBALE, BOB BERG. He began himself to practice the teaching of the instrument in 1987, giving private lessons and organizing internships and other "master classes". In 1998, he met his former teacher: JOE DIORIO. Therefore, the two guitarists occur duo concerts and festivals. Louis Bariohay also meet in concert many artists like LIZ MAC COMB, JEFF GARDNER, TONY PETRUCCIANI, PETRUCCIANI PHILIPPE JEAN-PIERRE LLABADOR, BERNARD MARGARIT and Denmark, violinist and bassist TORBEN HARBO PER FOLKE (with whom he recorded a album). It creates multiple successively merging groups with whom he performed and recorded his own compositions as well as jazz standards. His discography shows a personal style based on writing Jazz, Classical and Latin

Dig A Little Deeper

Born: December 22, 1868

When Mick Stuart finished jazz school he was the oldest in his class. If he wasn't the worst performer, he certainly felt like it. However, he did pick up some arranging skills and he still liked writing songs. Mick decided to gather some fine musicians around him to make him sound good. It almost worked. Mick formed the Irish jazz band, Dig A Little Deeper. He wrote 11 original tunes and recruited Ríona Hartman (vocals), Johhny Taylor (piano), Dan Callaghan (double bass) and Tommy Gray (drums) to come with their debut album, Songs From The Small Hours. If theres any complex stuff in there, it's their fault

Tom Polizzi

Born: February 6, 1998

Rob Fletcher

Rob Fletcher performs jazz, blues and vintage pop throughout New England. An exceptional vocalist, chromatic harmonica player and guitarist, he performed original music at Woodstock ’94 (350,000 attendees), the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, the Hudson Valley Jazz Festival, the National Harmonica Festival (SPAH), Garden State Harmonica Festival, Buckeye Harmonica Festival, Virginia Harmonica Festival, the National Guitar Workshop and at the legendary Bluebird Café in Nashville. Rob has performed with Trey Anastasio of Phish and opened for the Crash Test Dummies. The New York Times has described his original music as “soulful to funny”. Rob is the author of several music instructional books including Blues Grooves for Guitarists and Blues Harmonica for Beginners (Alfred Publications)