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Dennis Winge

Dennis Winge is a jazz and studio guitarist and educator living in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. He has 10 instrumental albums: Digital Interfaith (2024), Sketches (2023), For Music Geeks Only (2022), What are the Odds? (2021), Fly on the Wall (2020), Not From Brooklyn (2020), One Small Step (2019), Come Out and Play (2018), “Just the One of Us” (2017), and “May Your Holidays Be Filled with Love” (2011). Dennis also runs a guitar school called Guitar Lessons Ithaca.

Dennis Winge: What are the Odds?

Read "What are the Odds?" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler
May 6, 2021

Even though a lot of recorded music relies on “comfort zone" time signatures like 4/4 or 3/4, many musicians still like exploring more unusual time signatures. Probably the most notable example of this rhythmic experimentation is Dave Brubeck's landmark 1959 album Time Out (Columbia). Considering that this is one of the most popular albums in jazz shows that music in unusual key signatures can be very appealing. This is also the case with guitarist Dennis Winge. What Are The Odds? ...

Take Five With...

Take Five with Dennis Winge

by AAJ Staff
March 10, 2021

Meet Dennis WingeDennis is a professional guitarist living in Ithaca, NY and performs in a variety of musical settings throughout the Finger Lakes including his jazz ensemble, The Way (rock cover band), Matrix flute & guitar duo, Dupree (Steely Dan cover band), solo work and more. Having started to learn guitar at age seven, he played his first bar gig when he was 16, and has been a bandleader since his early 20's. He's played with Bill Crow, ...

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Performance / Tour

Westchester Jazz Jam at Jackson & Wheeler Restaurant in Pleasantville, NY

Source: All About Jazz
October 23, 2008

excerpts from reviews of lastest album "Digital Interfaith."

“Quite a showcase for the creative guitar playing and imagination of Dennis Winge” - Scott Yanow

“Fresh Thrilling Digital Guitar Mastery” - Contemporary Fusion Reviews

"... A fun disc ... All of the cleverness and talent means nothing if the themes and performances don’t deliver, and ye, they do." - Jazz Weekly

Primary Instrument

Guitar

Location

Syracuse

Willing to teach

Beginner to advanced

Credentials/Background

Dennis runs Guitar Lessons Ithaca. Go to www.GuitarLessonsIthaca.com for more information.

Clinic/Workshop Information

Dennis runs the Summer Improvisation Blast! every year at Foundation of Light in Ithaca, as well as composition and music theory workshops throughout the year.