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Sam Sherry

Born: January 29, 1961

Sam was born and raised in West Hartford, Connecticut and graduated from Hall High School. As a youth he was fortunate to study with Leland Tolo and to participate in several master-classes with Gary Karr. Sam also began traveling to New York City to study jazz playing with Michael Moore, a relationship which continued over the course of five years.

Sam attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston from 1979 through 1981 as a Jazz Studies major and also joined the NEC Symphony Orchestra. At NEC, he studied extensively with Jaki Byard and with Jimmy Guiffre, George Russell, Joe Maneri and Tom McKinley.

Bob Brookmeyer: Live at Sandy’s

by Sam Sherry
September 7, 2024

What if a tree fell in the woods, and no-one heard? More to the point, what if, for one weekend, four Guys With Ties wrote the book about how play jazz that balances drive with subtlety, improvisational joy with compositional intelligence, self-awareness with musical wit--and what if the record was released on the You'll Never Hear ...

Echoes of The Prophet

By Sam Sherry

Label: Curly Music Productions
Released: 2006