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Jim Josselyn

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Jim got his first guitar at age 11 in Nogales, Mexico on a family trip and hasn't put it down since. Shortly after he heard Jimi Hendrix and ultimately Coltrane and Wes and Pat Martino among others and was hooked on jazz. Jim has studied with Pat, Ted Dunbar, Jimmy heath, Sir Roland Hanna, Steve Khan and Rodney Jones. 

 

He's performed with Larry Ridley, Jeb Patton, Jim Ridl, Jimmy Heath, Wynton Marsalis and at Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the NJPAC and countless clubs and festivals. 

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Mr. October

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:40

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Early Summer Evening

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: All The People Sing; Mr. October; Big City; Early Summer Evening; Simple Samba; Freedom.

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Shape Shifter

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Shape Shifter; Clarisse; Waltz for a Rainy Day; Heads Up; Never and Again; Iris; Equinox

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Article: Album Review

Jim Josselyn: Shape Shifter

Read "Shape Shifter" reviewed by Kyle Simpler


Keith Richards once said if “you don't know the blues, there's no point in picking up the guitar." This is certainly true about rock, but it could just as easily apply to jazz. Many of the great jazz guitarists have roots in the blues, and Jim Josselyn is no exception. His album Shape Shifter offers a ...

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Shape Shifter

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:20

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Article: Album Review

Sheryl Bailey: Homage

Read "Homage" reviewed by Jim Josselyn


Homage, Sheryl Bailey's 12th outing as a leader, is a welcome and well deserved musical love letter to the late, great Pat Martino. The opening track, with one of the great song titles in instrumental music history, “The Velvet Hammer," was written for Martino, and the decision to have keyboardist Miki Hayama play the Fender Rhodes ...

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Blues From The Vault (Part One)

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Duration: 7:02

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Blues From The Vault (Part One)

Label: Interstreet Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Prelude In Blue; Some Blues; Blues For Ted; Blues From The Vault; New Orleans Guitar Funeral; E.T.A..

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Article: Album Review

The Nate Najar Trio: Jazz Impressions

Read "Jazz Impressions" reviewed by Jim Josselyn


On “Jazz Impressions" the Nate Najar Trio takes us back to a dark, tiny, smoky, nightclub circa 1956. The question is, do we want to go there? From the opening lines of the Count Basie blues “Taps Miller" we can hear where the group is going, and haven't we all been there before? Najar's solo consists ...


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