She’s one of Los Angeles’s most sought-after musicians, recording and touring with artists such as Jason Mraz , Black Eyed Peas, Donna Missal, and Morgxn, at venues such as the Hollywood Bowl, Royal Albert Hall, Coachella, Red Rocks Amphitheatre , and Walt Disney Concert Hall. In her feature in the renowned magazine, Guitar , Michael James Adam notes, “she slings the guitar like a wordsmith, wry and sarcastic with a playful slant and flows from hushed whisper to bursts of elation with aplomb”. M...
Jun 23, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 43
GRAMMY nominated musician Dr. Martin Taylor, MBE , is a virtuoso guitarist, composer, educator and musical innovator whom Acoustic Guitar magazine calls ‘THE Acoustic Guitarist of his Generation’. Widely considered to be the world’s foremost exponent of solo jazz and fingerstyle guitar playing, Martin possesses an inimitable style that has earned him global acclaim from fellow musicians, fans and critics alike. He dazzles audiences with a signature style that artfully combines his virtuosity, em...
Jun 16, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 42
As a young musician in Tel Aviv, Yotam Silberstein was quickly recognized as a prodigy and was invited to perform with many of the nation’s top musicians. At 21, he performed at Italy’s renowned Umbria Jazz Festival , released a critically acclaimed debut album and set out on an extensive tour of Europe. Upon receiving a scholarship to the prestigious New School , Yotam Silberstein moved to New York in 2005. He was a finalist in the Thelonious MonkInternational Jazz Guitar Competition in 2005 wi...
Jun 09, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Musician, Composer, Author, Editor, Journalist, Engineer, Producer, Music Technology Expert — Mitch Gallagher is known by a diverse array of titles, all based on his lifelong love for all things musical. Some know Mitch best for the more than 1,500 videos he has hosted and countless articles he has written for music gear retail giant, Sweetwater. Others have read his books, including the best-selling Guitar Tone: Pursuing the Ultimate Guitar Sound , and more than 1,000 published magazine article...
Jun 02, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Beth Marlis is a music industry veteran and performer, her many accomplishments include performances at venues and festivals across the US, Canada, Japan and France. She is also a respected educator, clinician, interviewer, panelist, panel moderator and author of two best-selling guitar instructional books. In her spare time, she can be found on the boards of many music non-profits and community organizations, while serving as a Vice President and senior guitar faculty member at Musicians Ins...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Whether you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker leading his own group (with 30 CD’s as a leader to date), or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and many others, you know why the Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years.” Hot House magazine awarded him Best Guitarist Fans Decision for 2017. He was recently voted once again as one of the top Jazz Guitarists in the 2019 Downbeat Critics and Readers Polls for the 10th time. Da...
May 19, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Jocelyn Gould has been called “a leader in the next generation of great mainstream jazz guitarists” by Howard Paul, CEO of Benedetto Guitars. Her joyful energy has captivated audiences around the world and her passion for music is infectious. She has absorbed the influences of the jazz guitar greats and has woven them into an exciting personal sound. Her unique ability to connect with audiences always leaves them wanting more. Jocelyn Gould has performed internationally in the groups of Grammy n...
May 12, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Most guitarists automatically join a band or dream to make their own album. But one of the best jazz guitarists of all time chose to use his talent in the movie business. Tim May’s guitar solos can be heard during some of your favorite TV shows or movies and on the legendary Back to the Future film. Movies aren’t his only niche, however. May, a studio musician, has worked with the best in the music business as well. Frank Sinatra, Celine Dion, Tom Jones and Janet Jackson are all names on the lis...
May 05, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Originally from Houston, Texas, Mike began studying music formally at the Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, a school renowned for its musical alumni, which includes such luminaries as Jason Moran, Robert Glasper, Brian Michael Cox, Eric Harland, Chris Dave, Kendrick Scott, and Beyoncé. After graduating, Mike moved to New York City with a scholarship to attend the New School University. While still in school he began garnering the recognition necessary to be called to perfor...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Mitch Holder was born in Los Angeles, California and started playing the guitar at age eight after getting intrigued with the electric guitar sound of Link Wray and Duane Eddy, both popular instrumentalists of the late '50's. He studied with guitarists, William Pellegrini and Johnny Frisco. In 1966, a close association developed with studio and jazz guitarist, Howard Roberts, who took Mitch on as a student along with having Mitch go along with him on many of his various studio calls which ultima...
Apr 21, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 34
At one time in his life, Stephen Marchione spent six hours a day playing the guitar eventually earning a BA in music from Naropa University. He now focuses on crafting them. In fact, since beginning his career as a guitar maker in 1990, Stephen has created more than four-hundred guitars for some of the best guitar players in the world. The journey from high-school jazz devotee to the finest young guitar maker working today, according to Chamber Music America, was a rich and complicated one. Afte...
Apr 14, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 33
There's no description more apt for Sheryl Bailey than "A sizzling guitar goddess", coined by Elliot Simon of All About Jazz . He's not alone with his superlatives-Adam Levy of Guitar Player Magazine calls Sheryl "One of the most compelling tones of her generation", and Frank Forte of Just Jazz Guitar ranks her "among the best bop guitar players with a fresh approach and something new." Sheryl's playing is unquestionably "sizzling". She has groomed incredible chops and impeccable taste with whic...
Apr 07, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Turkish Fretless guitarist and composer Cenk Erdoğan is a well-known guitar player who travels all around the world solo and with his trio. Besides his career as a guitarist, he is working as an arranger and producer. Next to 35 albums and compilations, he has also composed music for TV series and films. His soundtrack for the movie “Issız Adam” was nominated as “Best Soundtrack of 2009 “ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Sean McGowan is a fingerstyle jazz guitarist who combines many diverse musical influences with unconventional techniques to create a broad palette of textures within his compositions and arrangements for solo guitar. His first recording River Coffee won the Best Independent Release of the Year Award (2002) from Acoustic Guitar magazine and music from the recording has been published in Japan’s Acoustic Guitar magazine and Mel Bay’s Master Anthology of Fingerstyle Guitar, Vol. 3 (2005). His subse...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 30
John is a unique jazz guitarist influenced as much by pianists and horn players as he is by guitarists. His original take on harmony, chords and improvisation sets him apart. He has taught internationally for over 40 years in every educational setting. His clinics are informal, hands-on and informative. In addition to music theory and guidelines for improvisation, John shares his professional experience with the business of music. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★...
Mar 17, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg has been steadily building his name as one of the most compelling composer/performers in Jazz. Combining timeless melodicism with forward thinking lines and textures, His style and approach has created a strong following of fans around the world. He frequently tours worldwide and records with his own groups as well artists such as Dr. Lonnie Smith, who says of Kreisberg "He is a passionate musician with great vision, and he is constantly in fiery pursuit of innovatio...
Mar 10, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Recognized for his signature touch, harmonic dexterity, bluesy melodies and sense of rhythm, guitarist Pat Kelley has enjoyed a steady and successful career in Los Angeles as a studio and touring musician, recording artist, composer, producer, arranger, vocalist, recording engineer, and educator. An integral part of the Thornton School of Music Guitar Faculty at the University of Southern California for twenty-four years, two of Pat's books, Arpeggios for the Evolving Guitarist and Melodic Minor...
Mar 03, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Paul Norris Bollenback (born June 6, 1959) is a jazz guitarist who has appeared on Entertainment Tonight , The Tonight Show , The Today Show , Joan Rivers , and Good Morning America . He has performed with Scott Ambush , Charlie Byrd , Joey DeFrancesco , Herb Ellis , Della Reese , Arturo Sandoval , and Stanley Turrentine . [1] He is cited as a guitarist who uses modern quartal harmony . [2] Bollenback lived in India with his family when he was 11. After three years, the family returned to the U....
Feb 24, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Gilad Hekselman has established himself as one of the leading voices in jazz guitar. Only a few years after his arrival to NY in 2004, this native Israeli was already sharing stages with some of the greatest artists in the New York City jazz scene including Chris Potter, Eric Harland, Mark Turner, Anat Cohen, Ari Hoenig, Esperanza Spalding, Jeff Ballard, Ben Wendel, Gretchen Parlato, Avishai Cohen, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Tigran Hamasyan, Aaron Parks, Becca Stevens, John Scofield, Terri Lyne Carringt...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 25
"An exceptional guitarist with a wonderful sound and great fluidity, a unique composer of originality and maturity." Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Chico Pinheiro started playing the guitar when he was 6. At 14 he started working as studio session guitarist and soon began to be called to collaborate with a wide range of artists in his hometown, then in Brazil, then abroad. In 2002 Chico puts together a band of his own and starts recording as leader. His first album, 'Meia Noite Meio Dia' ...
Feb 10, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Rodney Jones was born in New Haven, CT where he started playing guitar at age 6. Career highlights include playing with Dizzy Gillespie (three years), Lena Horne (20 years as guitarist/musical director), and Ruth Brown (guitarist/musical director). Extensive TV work including staff guitarist, The Rosie O’Donnell Show , The Cosby Show , Showtime at the Apollo , The Rhythm and Blues Foundation , and The Apprentice . As a leader recorded CDs for Blue Note Records, Verve, HighNote and others. Record...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 23
You may not know Andrew Synowiec by name, but chances are you’ve heard his guitar playing. Andrew is a multi-faceted musician with credits like The Who’s #1 album Who , the blockbuster film Frozen (including “Let It Go”), and countless commercial and indie projects. With his collection of over 90 stringed instruments, he has recorded for artists ranging from M83 to Barbra Streisand and producers from Bob Rock to David Foster. Andrew has contributed to albums selling over 10 million copies worldw...
Jan 27, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Michael O'Neill's services as a guitarist and vocalist have been called upon at the highest levels of the music industry for over 30 years.Starting with his first tour of the U.S. and Europe on the Crusaders "Street Life" tour to his ongoing work with George Benson and Barbra Streisand,Michael has played on hundreds of recordings,worked on dozens of World tours,recorded 5 solo cd's,made numerous television and video appearances,provided hundreds of titles for background music sources.Working wit...
Jan 20, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson has been described as “a singular talent” (Lloyd Sachs, JazzTimes ), ”NYC’s least-predictable improviser” (Howard Mandel, City Arts ), “one of the most exciting and original guitarists in jazz—or otherwise” (Steve Dollar, Wall Street Journal ), and “one of today’s most formidable bandleaders” (Francis Davis, Village Voice ). In recent Downbeat Critics Polls Halvorson has been celebrated as guitarist, rising star jazz artist, and rising star composer of the y...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 20
World renowned guitarist , educator and Emmy award winning composer, Tim is a member of the legendary Northwest Gypsy Jazz Group Pearl Django and popular duo with Jamie Findlay. In between gigs with PD and Jamie, Tim tries to play as many Solo Guitar performance as he can fit into the schedule. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Jan 06, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 19
John Pisano is an influential jazz guitarist and studio musician, known for his mastery as an accompanist. He can be heard on recordings with artists including Joe Pass , Herb Alpert, and Chico Hamilton, and live at his weekly Guitar Night in Los Angeles. Bio Pisano was born in 1931 on Staten Island, New York. His father and uncle played banjo and guitar, and would often perform popular standards around the house. Pisano got his own musical start at the piano, but eventually switched to the guit...
Dec 30, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 18
John Pisano is an influential jazz guitarist and studio musician, known for his mastery as an accompanist. He can be heard on recordings with artists including Joe Pass , Herb Alpert, and Chico Hamilton, and live at his weekly Guitar Night in Los Angeles. Bio Pisano was born in 1931 on Staten Island, New York. His father and uncle played banjo and guitar, and would often perform popular standards around the house. Pisano got his own musical start at the piano, but eventually switched to the guit...
Dec 23, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Guitarist Bobby Broom ’s love of jazz has never blocked out his affection for the pop music which he grew up with. It’s been a frequent wellspring throughout his career. “It’s a lot of what I do,” he acknowledges. “Material is material, and I’m just trying to do things that are interesting to me and that I feel might be interesting to people.” Soul Fingers , his joyful 2018 release with his organ trio The Organi-Sation, produced by legendary drummer Steve Jordan , presents a whole album’s worth ...
Dec 16, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 16
For Lee Ritenour, there aren’t many ‘firsts’ left to achieve. During his dazzling five-decade career, the fabled LA guitarist has taken his music to the outer limits, alighting on every genre and occupying every position in the rock ‘n’ roll firmament. He’s been an enfant terrible of ’70s fusion, a crossover star of the ’80s pop chart, an honorary exponent of Brazilian jazz, and the fingers behind ’90s supergroup, Fourplay. Ritenour’s accolades include: 45 albums, Grammy award winner, plus 16 Gr...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Guitarist and composer, born in Montevideo, Uruguay on 20 September 1967. He moved to The Netherlands in 1990 and later to Rio de Janeiro, Brasil in 2002, where he among other performed with and recorded for Ivan Lins . ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 02, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 14
