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Biography
I am a jazz guitarist and composer, based in New York, who has been fortunate to play as a sideman with a wide variety of other jazz artists, and to lead or co-lead my own groups since 1982.
Articles on my early career appear in Cadence Magazine (January, 1984) and Guitar Player (January, 1988), so this page will mostly discuss more recent musical developments in my career.
But first, a bit of background.
I grew up in Brooklyn. In 7th grade, I did a report on Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Rahsaan was generous enough to play an afternoon concert for our class at the Village Vanguard and let us interview him.
First among them is Ethan Matt Kavaler, who is a role model, a mentor, and a friend.
In 8th grade, Jaki Byard came and taught us a weekly music class. By 9th grade, I had bought recordings by two of the musicians who were particularly influential to me: John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. By the end of 10th grade, I began to take classical guitar lessons with Leonid Bolotine (I had started to play a bit before then, but not seriously).
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