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Mark Mosley

Mark Mosley was only 11 years old when he first picked up the guitar. That one single act put him on the road of a lifelong musical adventure that would allow him to discover a deep love of many different styles of music. The Blues first lit his soul - particularly the styles of B.B. King, Freddie King and Albert Collins; and then it was jazz that caught his attention! During a high school band trip to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, he became mesmerized after seeing a live performance from Oscar Peterson, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Les McCann, Eddie Harris, and David “Fathead” Newman. This once in a lifetime experience motivated him to learn all he could about this sensational original American art form.

This multifaceted young man later graduated from the U.S. Army and Naval School of Music in Norfolk, Virginia all the while playing in numerous local R&B and jazz bands. Mark’s music has always been a driving force in his soul, but this man also gave more than his musical talents to the world. Mosley was an Army paratrooper while stationed at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina and also served as a Hurricane Katrina Army National Guard volunteer. Even while focused on his military and educational careers, the Baltimore based Mosley has kept his musical fires burning, and has finally achieved his longtime dream with the highly anticipated release of his second solo CD TLC, whose title is truly indicative of the detailed love and overriding sense of passion he brings to the music on this diverse set of ten infectious originals and emotional new renditions of Anita Baker’s “Sweet Love” and Errol Garner’s jazz standard “Misty.”


The following are excerpts taken from an interview by Lyle Robinson for jazzguitarlife.com.

Mark Mosley is a working jazz guitarist out of Baltimore who shares with us his experiences from the early days to what he is doing presently to ensure his jazz guitar status keeps on. An enjoyable read!

JazzGuitarLife.com Interview with Mark Mosley: This interview was conducted via email November, 2004.

JGL: At what age did you first get into guitar playing and were you interested in jazz from the beginning or were there other musical interests before jazz?

MM: At age 11, other musical interests included learning how to play a convincing blues by copying B.B. King and listening to cats like Jimmy Reed, Elmore James and others through my dad.

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“The bright and brilliant indie guitarist, Mark Mosley shows moxie by creating an independent debut that defiantly and gleefully transcends genre trappings. For adventurous listeners, TLC is an endless delight. There are smooth jazz hit worthy tunes for sure, but that’s just the beginning of this stellar project.” – Jonathan Widran

“I like your tone and approach. You're letting the music breathe and creating in the moment. I hear melodies when you solo. Let's play together sometime.” - John Stowell

“Mark Mosley is a gifted guitarist. Mark has succeeded in combining some great traditional Jazz blues lines with more modern chromatic and sequential playing. Mark's soloing is like a combination of Grant Green and McCoy Tyner.” - Doug Munro

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Primary Instrument

Guitar

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

Credentials/Background



Rates: $50.00 per hour, available on Sundays.

Contact: [email protected]

Credits:

Over 20 years of world-wide Army Band experiences.

Multi-instrumentalist on trombone, bass, guitar, and vocals.

Attended Towson University (Maryland) as a music major - 1 year.

Briefly attended Berklee College of Music (Boston).

B.S degree in Elementary Education plus graduate credits.

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Mark's Mood

Self Produced
2005

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