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Jazz Musician Database

Search Results: “guitar, electric”

25th Street Band (guitar, electric)

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The 25th Street Band was forged in the fire of London's Jazz Rock/Funk circuit in the late 80's and early 90's. They have worked with George Michael and Imagination amongst others. The band is: Russ Klinger - Guitars, Keyboards, and Dave...
Aaron Flores (guitar, electric)

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Aarón Flores nació en la Ciudad de México. Comenzó sus estudios de guitarra en el Ciclo de Iniciación Musical de la Escuela Nacional de Música, con el maestro Alejandro Salcedo, en donde continuó estudiando el Ciclo Propedeutico,...
Abdul Moimême (guitar, electric)

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Abdul Moimême is a Lisbon based musician and active member of the cities free improvisation scene. His main instrument is the electric guitar. - He has also worked as a jazz writer, since 1999, writing in various Portuguese publications...
Adam De Lucia (guitar, electric)

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Adam De Lucia is a musician / composer / producer who has forged creative partnerships since founding Hi-Bred Productions in 2004. His network includes stalwart musicians, burgeoning talent and industry luminaries. “Because Hi-Bred is a...
Adam Sussmann (guitar, electric)

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Aggelos Fetsis (guitar, electric)

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Al Viola (guitar, electric)

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Viola studied guitar and followed jazz guitarists Charlie Christian and Oscar Moore before he was drafted in 1941. The Army placed him in a trio with a pianist and bassist, billed as “The Three Sergeants." Page Cavanaugh replaced the...
Albert Collins (guitar, electric)

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They called him The Iceman, The Razor Blade, and The Master of the Telecaster. Albert Collins earned these nicknames for his sharp, cool guitar playing, and the Texas bluesman lived up to every one of them. Along with his band, The...
Albert King (guitar, electric)

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Bluesman Albert King was one of the premier electric guitar stylists of the post-World War II period. By playing left- handed and holding his guitar upside-down (with the strings set for a right-handed player), and by concentrating on tone...
Aleif Hamdan (guitar, electric)

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Aleif Hamdan is a guitarist/composer from Indonesia and Malaysia. Growing up in South East Asia, Aleif was exposed to a wide variety of music, contributing to a diverse and eclectic palette of taste. Aleif moved to Kuala Lumpur in 2010 to...
Alejandro Lucas Benito (guitar, electric)

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Alessandro Cossu (guitar, electric)

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Alex Jacquemin (guitar, electric)

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Alex Jacquemin is a modern jazz guitarist with a driving penchant for originality, daring and challenge. Born in France, he did not pick up his first guitar until the age of 16, but worked on his mastery of the intrument with such...
Alex Nauman (guitar, electric)

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At the crossroads of traditional jazz guitar, funk, and experimental improvising music stands a rising star shining brighter every day. Alex Nauman. Once this young guitarist, composer, arranger, songwriter, and educator starts putting...
Alexander Christian (guitar, electric)

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Well, I am almost 50, playing guitar from my 6-7th year of age, but seriously I started in 1978, when I was 17. I insist on 'black sound', that means funk, blues, afro grooves and reggae. I also love 12 string guitars, and recently I...
Alexander Randall (guitar, electric)

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Allen Weber (guitar, electric)

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Journeyman musician Allen Weber is another musician to emerge from Chicago’s music scene. At age 7 he learned to play piano. At age 11 he switched to trumpet. And at age 15 he finally moved to guitar, though he originally wanted to be a...
Amirkhanov (guitar, electric)

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Bio: 29 march 1973 Ukraine Location Kiev, UA Genre: Fusion / Jazz / Nu-Jazz Influences: George Benson, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Mike Shtern, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, John Abercrombie, Jim Hall
Anders Nilsson (guitar, electric)

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Guitarist and composer Anders Nilsson moved from his native Sweden to New York in 2000 and has made an impression as a unique and versatile guitarist as leader of Anders Nilsson's AORTA, and Fulminate Trio from Brooklyn. His charcteristic...
Andre Dale (guitar, electric)

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Andre' Dale is a gifted guitarist/vocalist/writer who has been an integral part of the Detroit music scene since the late 80's playing and touring with reggae/rock group Onxyz. Andre' is a Cass Tech alumnus where he played in the jazz band...
Andreas Wildenhain (guitar, electric)

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born in Berlin (Germany) 1965 took up guitar at the age of 12 student of Eef Aalbers & Marcel Karreman (Conservatory Utrecht) studies at Berklee College of Music (Boston) recent CD release: andreas wildenhain + terra incognita. a fusion of...
Andres Corredor (guitar, electric)

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Guitarist from Bogotá, Colombia (1990). Started playing guitar at 13, learning by his own with some help from music teachers from his school. Heavily influenced by rock and blues, he studied like this all the way through high school. In...
Andrés Corredor (guitar, electric)

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Guitarist from Bogotá, Colombia (1990). Started playing guitar at 13, learning by his own with some help from music teachers from his school. Heavily influenced by rock and blues, he studied like this all the way through high school. In...
Anthony Labuguen (guitar, electric)

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I grew up in South Elgin, Illinois, about forty miles west of Chicago. I went into the city often to visit family and friends and when I was older, I went myself, taking a commuter train or bumming a ride from friends that had driver's...
Anthony Pirog (guitar, electric)

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Anthony Pirog is a guitarist who currently lives in New York City but honed his unique take on freely improvised music while living in the Washington DC area. He is a guitarist well versed in many genres of music and performs as a solo...
Arik Shahar (guitar, electric)

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Arik shahar was born in 1964 and grew up in Haifa.At the age of 10 he began playing drums and percussion .from there he moved on to guitar, playing mainly bass. Arik played in haifa with different bands and musicians,among them Arkadi...
Arthur Adams (guitar, electric)

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Bluesman Arthur Adams is a singer,songwriter, guitar-slinger and dynamic performer, Adams’s diverse life experiences and musical history have merged and matured into a unique style that expresses universal emotions through a highly...
Aslam Amin (guitar, electric)

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Hey, my name is Aslam. I'm a guitarist/pianist/songwriter from County Cork in Ireland. I just graduated from college with a National Diploma in Popular Music Performance. I like nearly every style of music, at the moment I want to improve...
Athanasios Konstandopoulos (guitar, electric)

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Basically an engineer who enjoys playing the guitar.
Aubrey Cheung (guitar, electric)

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My name is Aubrey Cheung. I came from Hong Kong when I was 17 years old. With no back ground with Jazz, I started playing rock guitar when I first came to Boston, then I went to Berklee in 1978 to study jazz and was mayor in Music Ed.. I...
Audric Jankauskas (guitar, electric)

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2003 - Audric Jankauskas and Rob Lewcun collaborate to create the CD titled Spontageous , published and released by aujanmusic in January 2004 Spontageous is the name of the four piece jazz-rock group that features guitar, keyboards, bass,...
B.B. King (guitar, electric)

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“King of the Blues” Born on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi in 1925, Riley B. King would start from very humble beginnings. His family moved around the area, and the young Riley experienced early a life of constant motion. As a...
Barbara Lynn (guitar, electric)

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Barbara Lynn was well ahead of her time in being a triple threat singer, songwriter, and guitarist. It was in 1962, while just turning 20, that she had the number one hit on the charts with her original penned “You’ll Lose A Good...
Barney Kessel (guitar, electric)

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Legendary musician, guitarist, influential jazz artist, composer, arranger, session player, record producer, one of the leading figures in West Coast jazz, later delving into hard bop, Barney Kessel is now generally considered by fans,...
Barry Cleveland (guitar, electric)

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For more than 25 years, Barry Cleveland's epic compositions and virtuoso, eclectic guitar work have been celebrated by critics and listeners alike. His fifth album Hologramatron, is a timely progressive rock and world fusion statement....
Barry Finnerty (guitar, electric)

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BARRY FINNERTY, was born in San Francisco on December 3, 1951. My father, Warren, was an award-winning actor (he received the Village Voice Obie for Best Actor of 1960 for “The Connection") and my mother, Ruth, was an excellent...
Barry Greene (guitar, electric)

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Barry Greene began playing guitar in 1971,at the age of ten years old. Strongly influenced by Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, George Benson and Pat Martino, Barry has developed into a world-class guitarist, arranger and composer. He has recorded...
Barry Zweig (guitar, electric)

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“Barry Zweig is one of the most highly respected jazz guitarists on the LA music scene. A skilled accompanist and soloist, Barry’s love of the instrument shines through every aspect of his playing” writes noted acoustician and studio...
Ben Bishop (guitar, electric)

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Ben McDonnell (guitar, electric)

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Guitarist Ben McDonnell has been based in London since he graduated from Leeds College of Music in 2004. In that time Ben has performed and recorded for countless bands and venues. He has performed all over the world as far afield as Asia...
Bert Jackson (guitar, electric)

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Bert currently plays with his group, the Bert Jackson Quartet, with Roe Osborn on bass, Kareem Sanjaghi on drums, and Paul Lesniak on reeds. The BJQ released their first album, Imaginary Journey, in 2013. The band plays concert and club...
Billy "Spaceman" Patterson (guitar, electric)

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Billy “Spaceman" Patterson is a composer and musician who has played with and recorded with a virtual who's who of the music world, including Miles Davis, James Brown, Vanessa Williams, Dave Sandborn, Teruo Nakamura, Marcus Miller,...
Bob Crawford (guitar, electric)

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Bob Crawford, born in the Bronx, NY, is one of those rare people combining musicality, scholarship, and business acumen into one seamless individual. After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1971 (Phi Beta Kappa/Magna cum laude)...
Bob Margolin (guitar, electric)

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oston native BOB MARGOLIN was born in 1949. Inspired by Chuck Berry, he started playing guitar at age 15 and immediately started performing in local rock and blues bands. Margolin was hired by Muddy Waters in 1973. Muddy’s band toured...
Bob Niederriter (guitar, electric)

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Bob Niederriter is a jazz artist . He is a composer, guitarist and arranger who has studied and performed with great artists in jazz and modern classical music and has doggedly pursued excellence in the field, immersing himself in the...
Bob Roetker (guitar, electric)

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Bob has been playing guitar for more than thirty years, performing all across the United States. He has played with such musical celebrities as Cal Collins, Gary Thomas, Chris Vadalia, Bobby Shew, Rich Mattison, Delbert Felix, Billy...
Bobby Perry (guitar, electric)

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BOBBY PERRY is one of the few remaining blues musicians who really understands the blues, lives the blues and plays the blues. Mr. Perry has written, produced and performed his unique blend of jazz and urban blues for years. He is now hard...
Brandon Bernstein (guitar, electric)

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Brandon Bernstein began studying guitar at age 14. At 18, he discovered his passion for jazz and improvised music while attending Berklee College of Music. After a semester of study, Brandon ventured to Montreal, Canada where he studied...
Brent Baxter Barrett (guitar, electric)

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Brent Baxter Barrett grew up in a small town called Davison, near Flint, Michigan and received his Bachelor Of Fine Arts Degree in Jazz Guitar Performance and Technical Theatre from Central Michigan University in 1984. He has traveled the...
Bruce Muirhead (guitar, electric)

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BMusHons UCT Cape Town Jazz Festival 2007 as ‘The Muirhead Quartet’ Cape Town Jazz Festival 2008 with ‘Bepop Guitar Summit’ Collaborative work exhibiting at the Sasol Museum in Stellenbosch, ‘Moeder Natuur Mother Nature’ opened...