Jim Crye Dallas Fort Worth Guitarist: started playing guitar 17 years ago and have not stopped since. Ace Frehley is the reason I even started playing guitar. Joes Garage was a local metal club in the 80's where I used to go watch Pantera play everytime they had a gig there before they got signed. So Dimebag was a big direct influence on me. Bill Ham, whom I took lessons from, was the guitar player for Sonny and Cher and was also a big direct influence. The others that matter are, in no particular order: Billy Gibbons, Jeff Beck, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, Jake E. Lee, Jerry Cantrell, Incubus, Sevendust.
Local Dallas/Ft.Worth area bands I have played with are: KRY (metal), Sarcasm (metal), Twisting Cain (hard rock), Riding Shotgun (covers), Five Leaves Left (diva alternative), Blue Buddha (funk rock).
Information on Guitarist Steve Marchena:
Classical Guitarist, Electric Guitarist and Harmonicist.
Steve Marchena is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he majored in Guitar Performance. While at Berklee, he studied under Bill Bounocore, Chris Hendrikson, Jon Finn, Tomo Fujita, Joe Stump and David Newsam. His recent concert appearances include performances at Gillette Stadium, Jordan Hall, Copley Square Park, The Lebanon Opera House, The Timberlane Performance Center, The North Port Performance Center, Berklee College of Music, Ryle's Jazz Club, The House of Blues, The Knitting Factory, The Middle East and the Boston Hatch Shell. Steve won the Northeast Finals of Guitarmageddon 2004 and has played concerts opening for Al Di Meola, Nuno Bettencourt and Jon Finn. Steve is currently a member of "The Back Bay Guitar Trio", "Hypaspace" and "Rev. Bob and The Darkness". He is also a cast member of "Cirque du Singe Brise", and does substitute teaching at Berklee College of Music ...
Fred Deluc:
The musicianship immediately stands out and will either make you want to pick up your guitar and start practicing or hide in the closet because it's so good.
Leduc has created a magnificent album that is very pleasing to listen to any time of the day.
With the success and affluence of various new age/ international guitarists, Fred Leduc ranks right up there in the top quartile.His guitar sings, giving us both melody and harmony, and with guitar solos that enrich the entire experience.The music and engineering it contains are outstanding!
Fred began playing Guitar during his teenage years, he attended the Northern Metropolitan College of Tafe and completed the 2 year Advanced Certificate in Jazz Performance. During this time, Fred was involved in the recording of an album with the Progressive Rock band named 'Vaudeville'. This album proved extremely popular landing him contracts throughout Asia and parts of Europe. Fred continued on to complete further study, attending La Trobe University studying the Bachelor of Music Degree based on classical influences, which he successfully completed in 1998 ...
Jean-Paul Bourelly, guitarplayer:
Born in Chicago, Bourelly's strongest impressions of the city include two formative experiences: inadvertently stumbling upon a Muddy Waters sound check outside a club; the second, playing Carlos Santana style hard rock of his first grade school band. From this perspective, his musical language began to form, blending a Haitian-American upbringing of meringue and voodoo, roots music against the backdrop of the Windy City's soulful southside - freedom (with notes), but who were really coming from a hard-edged, city blues, acid sound.I experimented with this sound, once I got it, it was time to move on ...
Guitarist Paul Meyers' website features reviews, sound bites, cds, projects, guitar great profiles, biography.
Guitarist/Composer, has performed and/or recorded with Geri Allen, Kenny Barron, Andy Bey, Ron Carter, Ray Drummond, Eliane Elias, Clare Fischer, Sonny Fortune, Eddie Gomez, Stefon Harris, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross, Marc Johnson, Wynton Marsalis, Rufus Reid, David Sanchez, Kenny Werner, Frank Wess and the Woody Herman Orchestra in appearances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kool Jazz Festival, jazz clubs and on national tours. He's also been touring for years with two great jazz singers - Jon Hendricks since 1993, and Andy Bey since 1997.
Guitarist Dave Stryker's website features reviews, sound bites, itinerary,biography, cds.
Whether you've heard guitarist Dave Stryker fronting his own group (with seventeen CD's as a leader to date), or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and more recently Kevin Mahogany, you know why Gary Giddins in the Village Voice calls him "one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years." He was voted one of the Top Ten Guitarists in the 2001 Critics and Readers poll of Downbeat Magazine. His approach combining the jazz burn to a soulful blues feeling is communicating to new fans wherever he plays.
Dave Stryker (3/30/57) grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and moved to New York City in 1980. After establishing himself in the local music scene, he joined organist Jack McDuff's group for two years 1984-85. When McDuff wasn't on the road (literally traveling by van all over the country) they worked a steady four-night a week gig at Dude's Lounge in Harlem. His first break, this turned out to be an invaluable experience, paying his dues night after night with the soulful jazz organist.
It was at Dude's Lounge that Stryker met tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, who would occasionally sit in. After leaving McDuff, Turrentine asked Stryker to join his quintet. From 1986-1995 he played with the legendary saxophonist at all the major festivals, concert halls, and clubs throughout the world. He is featured on two Turrentine CD's (Stanley recorded Stryker's tune "Sidesteppin"). With Turrentine, Stryker was able to play with such jazz greats as Dizzy Gillespie and Freddie Hubbard. The ten years playing alongside the tenor legend helped Stryker realize the importance of having his own sound. Dave continued to work with Stanley and was with him during his final week at the Blue Note in NYC, when he passed in Sept. 2000.
Stryker recorded his first CD, First Strike (featuring Billy Hart) in 1988. Guitar on Top (featuring Mulgrew Miller and Victor Lewis) reached #13 on the Gavin Radio Chart and received 4 1/2 stars in Downbeat magazine ...