Results for "guitar"

Alex Lozupone

Alex Lozupone is a mutli-instrumentalist, music producer/engineer, and film director, primarily known as a lead guitarist, and as an avid producer of live music videos. He has over a hundred videos documenting the music scene on his youtube channel, 'dogandpanda', and has played with musicians such as Marc Edwards, Percy Jones, Stephen Moses, David Tamura, and Michael Kaplan. He has shot videos of Weasel Walter, Marc Edwards, Ron Anderson, Keith Abrams, Percy Jones, Stephen Moses, MJ-12, PAK, Tatsuya Yoshida/RUINS, Pet Bottle Ningen, He currently plays in experimental rock band Pain Hertz, which he formed in 2004, as well as free jazz outfit Marc Edwards Slipstream Time Travel. In 2012, he recorded and mixed Melvin Van Peebles' album, Nahh..

Michiel Stekelenburg

Born: December 3, 1979

Brad Hammonds

Eclectic guitarist Brad Hammonds has played hundreds of shows across the country including NYC venues such as The Blue Note, The Symphony Space, The Living Room, Joes' Pub, The Whitney Museum, Rockwood Music Hall, BAM Café, SXSW Eclectic Stage, and voted one of WNYC's Soundcheck best live performances of 2007. Brad has toured extensively throughout the country playing college and universities, theaters, cafes, art houses and house concerts and toured the Netherlands. Brad's music has been featured on the History Channel, the Sundance Channel, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. Hammonds’ 2012 release “Greene Street” reveals how Hammonds plays in the moment

Jordan Klemons

The Jordan Klemons Trio is a guitar led, instrumental group whose influences catastrophically destroy any semblance of categorization. While they choose to label themselves as a modern jazz-fusion trio, this is an oversimplification - a framework within which the true colors of their sonic painting fill the blank, white canvas of silence. Within the context of jazz, The Jordan Klemons Trio employs the dance between composition and improvisation to take their audience on a musical exploration, with influences ranging from straight- ahead jazz to funk, Americana to drum ‘n bass, Afro beat to the blues, prog rock to Reggae, and more

Vlatko Stefanovski

Born: 1957

Vlatko Stefanovski was born in 1957 in Prilep / Macedonia in a theatrical family. He started playing guitar at the age of 13. In his late teens he formed the group LEB I SOL which became one of the most important names in the music scene of former Yugoslavia. LEB I SOL had released 14 albums and had toured around the world.

Since the mid- nineties Stefanovski has developed a very successful solo career. He has recorded remarkable solo releases, like Cowboys & Indians, Sarajevo, Vlatko Stefanovski trio, Kula od karti, Thunder from the blue sky etc. The collaboration with Miroslav Tadic,
on the albums Krushevo, Treta majka, Live in Belgrade, and Live in Zagreb put a new light on Vlatko’s acoustic guitar work, and his further exploration of the Macedonian traditional music.
In the last several years he has played and recorded all around the world with many top artists like Tommy Emmanuel, Stochelo Rosenberg, Gibonni, Jan Akkerman, Theodosii Spassov Stefan Milenkovic, Kudsi Erguner, Bojan Z., Manu Katche, Toni Levin, Big Band of the Slovenian Army,  and many others. His recent work also includes music for films, theatre and ballet.

Steve Montgomery

Born: October 19, 1960

In about 1980, I started to try to think about how to expand what the guitar could do harmonically and with its range (the bar has been set pretty high by all those great piano players out there). The two trend setters at the time (if you include jazz and rock) were Eddie Van Halen and Stanely Jordan, both of whom fretted the guitar with both hands at the same time. I wasn't looking for a rock sound, and I didn't really like the "pingy" tone that Jordan was getting. so what I did was come up with a way to use both hands for chording, which gained greater options for chord voicings, but which didn't sacrifice a nice "round" jazz tone

Samuel Hällkvist

The ocean vibrates, electric arteries branch out and down, a recursive bifurcation filling the sea, new neural networks replicating at an incomprehensible pace. You are fully sound and light, you are ever- changing patterns, you are swelling and collapsing rhythms, you are overlapping sequences of numbers. An infinity of possibilities. New languages form. A thousand eyes see. A million hearts beat in sympathetic polyrhythms. And then there is no you at all. There is only this moment. One endless moment. And this moment is all there ever was. The sound. The light. The consciousness you named Self

Pawel Ignatowicz

Born: December 20, 1880

A guitarist, composer and music producer Paweł Ignatowicz was born 20 December 1980 in Żywiec, Poland. Ever since his earliest years, he was surrounded by a multitude and variety of instruments. He grew up in a musical family that played music ranging from the folk music of the Highlanders of the Beskid Żywiecki region to New Orleans Dixieland Jazz. The son of a multi-instrumentalist, Paweł spent his whole childhood practicing playing the instruments. At the age of 8, he started attending the Polish National Music School to study clarinet. Having added saxophones to the list of the instruments he played, he continued to search for the one instrument that would serve him best as a means of musical expression

Kevin Brown

Born: December 26, 1985

Canadian born guitarist Kevin Brown is an accomplished classical and jazz guitarist.  Studying guitar from a young age under his uncle Peter Ulrich and later being inspired by his high school band director Jeff Kula, he has gone on to study and perform with many world-class musicians. 

Brown has a BM in guitar performance from Wheaton College where he studied under Steve Ramsdell, Nicole Mitchell and Audrey Morrison.  Brown also has a MM in Jazz Composition from DePaul University where he studied with Bob Palmieri, Tom Matta, Mark Colby, Ron Perillo and Bob Lark.  Other notable teachers include Canadian guitarists Larry Roy, David Letkemann and Willie Wiebe; additional studies with Chicago guitarists Mike Allemana, Scott Hesse and Fareed Haque; and additional masterclasses with John Patitucci, Steve Coleman, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Rez Abbasi, Gary Smulyan, Gene Bertoncini, Xuefei Yang, Oscar Ghiglia, Anne Waller and Mark Maxwell. 

Matthew Finck

Matthew Finck Bio “Rarely are there places we can go as humans and feel completely free of everything on this plane to experience pure joy. That is what playing music is for me, absolute freedom to express to those willing to experience it.” For the past 15 years guitarist/composer Matthew Finck has established himself as one of the most versatile and respected guitarists on the New York scene. With a full gamut of experience in so many facets over those years, he has finally launched his own group (in partnership with saxophonist Jonathan Ball) with the Matthew Finck Jonathan Ball Project