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Jake Reichbart

Jake Reichbart won WEMU-FM’s Emily Remler scholarship for best jazz guitarist in 1991. Since then, he has been among the busiest guitarists in the greater Detroit region. As a sideman, he appears on countless recordings and jingles and has performed alongside Motown legends and jazz greats alike, logging over 7,000 live gigs.

Reichbart’s passion, though, has always been solo guitar, citing Joe Pass, Tuck Andress and Tommy Emmanuel as his main influences, while creating a unique voice of his own. He can arrange for the guitar nearly any tune imaginable, drawing from any and every musical style. His CDs 16 Songs and Long Ago and Far Away have received nominations for best jazz recording at the Detroit Music Awards and have garnered rave reviews from such prestigious publications as All Music Guide, Just Jazz Guitar, and Cadence, as well as from numerous radio stations across the US and abroad.

He has performed for two US presidents, the Michigan Governor's Inaugural Ball three times, and for countless other similar events. His instructional DVDs are distributed by the largest publisher in the world, Hal Leonard Corporation and he was featured on the front cover of the May 2012 issue of Just Jazz Guitar magazine, which included a lengthy interview and a transcription of one of his arrangements. He has appeared on Fingerstyle 360 magazine along with Tommy Emmanuel. Jake cites his most enjoyable solo work as being the “restaurant guitarist,” creating long-term relationships and enjoying a loyal following. For the past 29 years, he has been performing every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings at Ann Arbor’s most famous restaurant, The Earle, read all about it here: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2017/11/ann_arbor_musician_reflects_on.html He also has a large following on YouTube with 42,000 subscribers.

Jake's latest album is called "New Frontier: The Music of Walter Becker & Donald Fagen" and is a solo guitar recording of Steely Dan songs available from Art of Life Records at www.artofliferecords.com.

Jake Reichbart is currently on the roster of Great Lakes Performing Artists Associates, see here https://www.greatlakespaa.org/jake-reichbart/

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15th Annual Bermuda Guitar Festival

Presented by the Bermuda School of Music at St Andrew's Church

Jake Reichbart, guitar

Master teacher and arranger Jake Reichbart was on his first visit to Bermuda.

His repertoire of jazz, rock and pop standards is vast, containing more than 5,000 individual melodies, which he has arranged himself and honed for his unique fingerstyle treatment.

His playing is strictly classical, a thumbed base with each right hand finger targeted to one or two strings.

This evening he played a well-worn Ibanez with light amplification and the sound was exceptionally clear. It reminded me of Joe Pass, whom he mentioned as being a role model. And like Joe Pass, Reichbart styled each melody with clusters of individually crafted grace notes, flourishes and supporting harmonic structures to give them individuality.

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New Frontier: The...

Art of Life Records
2016

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