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Jake Hertzog

Guitar Player Magazine is calling him "…the blazing wunderkind." The Boston Phoenix has declared him "...the WOW! factor." Award-winning jazz guitarist and composer, Jake Hertzog, is making it big in New York City. Jake’s third studio album, Evolution [Buckyball Records], just released this August 2011 has been quickly gaining international regard.

Jake's second studio album, Patterns [Buckyball Records] and Jake’s debut album, Chromatosphere (2009), brought him critical acclaim, including a five page interview in Guitar Player Magazine (June 2009) highlighting his unique technique and approach to modern jazz guitar. Both albums are recorded and produced by Grammy Award-winner, Joshua Paul Thompson.

Under the alias Hey Jazz Guy, Jake is a monthly contributor to Guitar Player Magazine’s ‘Lessons’ section. He has been coined as the Jazz ambassador to the non-jazz world.

For three years, Jake stood as musical director, lead guitarist and mentor for Nickelodeon's The Naked Brothers Band stars, Nat and Alex Wolff. They concluded two national tours and have performed on national television shows including Good Morning America, The View, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, The Today Show and many others.

Past achievements include winning the Grand Prize in 2006 for the Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition in Switzerland. Jake holds title at 20 years old as the youngest ever prize winner in the competitions history. He was invited back in 2007 to showcase his original music in the Montreux Jazz Festival. Jake is an alum of the prestigious Berklee College of Music and recipient of several performance scholarships.

Jake’s contributions to the rock world including the successful New York band Wakey Wakey, the pop world with Nat and Alex Wollf and his vast expertise in Jazz put him in the forefront of the fusion world.

Awards

2006 Montreux Jazz Festival Gibson Jazz Guitar Competition (International) - Grand Prize Citation for Outstanding Musicianship IAJE 2007 Numerous Berklee College of Music guitar department awards; see www.jakehertzog.com

Gear

Artinger Guitars, GHS Strings, Fender Amplification


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Album Review

Jake Hertzog & Yishai Fisher: Stringscapes: A Portrait of the World in Nylon & Steel

Read "Stringscapes: A Portrait of the World in Nylon & Steel" reviewed by Geno Thackara


It can't be easy to keep thinking of different places to go when one's career is already as eclectic as Jake Hertzog's, but he doesn't seem in any danger of running out of ideas. The guitarist has run an impressive gamut already, from the electric Pat Metheny-inspired fusion session Evolution (Buckyball, 2011) to the more straightforward jazz of Throwback (Zoho, 2013) and the conceptual solo outing Well Lit Shadow (Self Produced, 2016). Teaming up with classical guitarist Yishai Fisher for ...

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Jake Hertzog: Well Lit Shadow

Read "Well Lit Shadow" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


A suite for solo electric guitar that takes inspiration from images of particle collisions isn't exactly your garden-variety jazz release. But, then again, Jake Hertzog isn't your garden-variety jazz guitarist. Over the course of the past decade, Hertzog has established himself as a powerful and unique voice on his instrument. He's worked out his own brand of fusion, made his mark in jazz settings, crossed into rock realms with The Young Presidents, served as musical director and lead guitarist for ...

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Jake Hertzog: Throwback

Read "Throwback" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


With his fourth solo venture, nascent New York-based guitarist Jake Hertzog beckons the services of celebrated jazz trumpeter, Randy Brecker. His conspicuous synergy with longtime associates, bassist Harvie S and drummer Victor Jones is true to form on a set that highlights an uncanny blend of harmonically appealing content and edgy jazz-fusion extravaganzas, heightened by Hertzog's judicious use of distortion techniques. Throwback represents a significant level of maturity attained by this young artist, largely owing to a host ...

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Jake Hertzog: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Guitarist Jake Hertzog's previous recordings as leader, Chromatosphere (That's Out, 2009) and Patterns (Buckyball, 2010) created a stir, with reviewers comparing his talent to just about every jazz and rock guitarist who's ever been described as a legend, from the 1940s on. What this hints rather broadly at is Hertzog's cross-generational approach and stylistic variation which define his music, though he's essentially a modernist. The effusion of comparisons has, perhaps, heaped heavy expectations on both the guitarist--still only 25--and listener, ...

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Take Five With Jake Hertzog

Read "Take Five With Jake Hertzog" reviewed by Jake Hertzog


Meet Jake Hertzog: Jake Hertzog's accomplishments as a jazz musician mesh with his love for the rock idiom, creating almost an entirely new musical language. His new album, Evolution, co- produced by the great jazz bassist Harvie S, the original compositions (except for Jake's version of Bruce Springsteen's “Streets of Philadelphia") have been mastered to perfection--and is a recording destined to become a classic.Past achievements include winning the Grand Prize in 2006 for the Montreux Jazz ...

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Jake Hertzog: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Mark Redlefsen


Evolution is the third solo outing from guitarist Jake Hertzog, Guitar Player Magazine contributor and member of the rock band, The Young Presidents. Although the album appears weighted towards jazz fusion, it is the rock-inflected phrases woven into the music that saves it from running into all-too-familiar jazz guitar footprints. The generational sound of this recording is only slightly more youthful than Marc Ribot or Nels Cline, its title referring, perhaps, to the advancement of an unapologetic brand of jazz-rock ...

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Jake Hertzog: Chromatosphere

Read "Chromatosphere" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Jake Hertzog is a guitarist who crosses the threshold into the jazz and jazz-fusion radar with the advent of this impressive 2009 studio set. Hertzog is a Berklee College of Music graduate and, at nineteen years-old, won the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival's Grand Prize in the Jazz Guitar Competition. He communicates a broad music vernacular here, within a comfort zone provided by the superfine rhythm section that includes pianist Michael Wolff on three pieces.

Among the anticipated methodologies, ...

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Education

Rising Star Jazz Guitarist Launches Online Instructional Resource

Rising Star Jazz Guitarist Launches Online Instructional Resource

Source: Chris M. Slawecki

Guitarist Jake Hertzog is quickly establishing himself as a rising star with his unique blend of jazz and rock, having released three critically acclaimed albums over the last three years. Hertzog also is a frequent contributor to Guitar Player Magazine's Lessons section under the alias “Hey Jazz Guy", aiming to bridge the gap between standard guitar instruction and an original take on jazz education. Hertzog is thrilled to announce that the online companion resource to the “Hey Jazz Guy" series ...

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Recording

Jake Hertzog CD Release Party and Midwest Tour

Jake Hertzog CD Release Party and Midwest Tour

Source: Michael Ricci

New Rising Star Jazz Guitarist Jake Hertzog Celebrates the Release of his new recording Patterns Saturday May 16, at The Bar Next Door 129 MacDougal Street New York, NY 10012 (212) 529-5945 7 pm and 9 pm show $15 cover

Jake Hertzog Trio is: Jake Hertzog, guitar Harvie S., bass Victor Jones, drums

Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition Grand Prize Winner 2006 Guitarist Jake Hertzog, musical director for Nickelodeon stars, Nat and Alex ...

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Jake Hertzog Releases New CD "Patterns" This Month

Jake Hertzog Releases New CD "Patterns" This Month

Source: Michael Ricci

Guitar Player Magazine is calling him “...the blazing wunderkind." The Boston Phoenix has declared him “...the WOW! factor." Award-winning jazz guitarist and composer Jake Hertzog is making it big in New York City. Jake's debut album, Chromatosphere, continues to bring him critical acclaim, including a five-page interview in Guitar Player Magazine (June 2009), highlighting his unique technique and approach to modern jazz guitar. Both albums, recorded and produced by Grammy Award-winner Joshua Paul Thompson, feature some of New York's top ...

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Jake Hertzog Promotional Tracks

Jake Hertzog Promotional Tracks

Source: Michael Ricci

Jake Hertzog's new release on Buckyball Records, Patterns, is hitting the streets by the end of the month. We want to share with you in advance two free mp3 promo tracks.

“Echoes of Metheny, Stern, and Breau (among others) surface in Hertzogs playing, but his dazzlingly adventurous approach puts him in a jazz league all his own. What a gifted guitarist, and at 22, hes just getting started!" --Art Thompson, Guitar Magazine

Jake Hertzog ...

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Jake Hertzog Releases Jazz Fusion Instrumental Album "Chromatosphere"

Jake Hertzog Releases Jazz Fusion Instrumental Album "Chromatosphere"

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

New York, New York -- Jake Hertzog is a guitarist, composer, and bandleader that has just realized his potential with an all instrumental jazz fusion release titled Chromatosphere on That’s Out Records, which will be released April 7, 2009. This is Jake’s first full length solo recording and it promises to be well received by the media and smart jazz listeners everywhere.Hertzog has been seen performing on nationally renowned programs and with top acts such as The Naked Brothers Band ...

"[Jake has} All the Metheny earmarks that you love and fear at once...the Wow! factor" - Boston Phoenix

"Hertzog is sure to blow your ears wide open and create a new generation of jazz fans. Hot stuff." - -CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher ©2009 Midwest Record

"Hertzog is the real deal on many levels...one of the most original I have heard" - Ralph A. Miriello [jazz.com]

"...truly a marvel." - Kultur.cmichaelbaily.com

"...a jazz guitarist of and for the 21st century" - Jack Kleinsinger, producer, Highlights In Jazz

Primary Instrument

Guitar, electric

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

Private Lessons $75/hr B.M. Berklee College of Music 2007 Clinician and private instructor in US and Europe

Clinic/Workshop Information

Modern Jazz Guitar - Exploration of sounds, voicing and harmonic language of modern jazz guitar. Ensemble - Focus on group playing and composition originality.

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Stringscapes: A...

Fret Monkey Records
2018

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Well Lit Shadow

Self Produced
2016

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Throwback

Zoho Music
2013

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Evolution

Buckyball Records
2012

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Evolution

Buckyball Records
2011

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Patterns

Buckyball Records
2010

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