Greg Ruggiero

The eight original compositions that make up guitarist's Greg Ruggiero's debut recording have a deeply introspective air, with gently rocking rhythms and simply stated melodies that often give the album an instrumental pop feeling. But there's plenty of emotional depth here, too, as Ruggiero quietly draws delicate, ethereal designs with electric and acoustic guitars, levitating on Frank LoCrasto's sympathetic piano and keyboard patterns. Rob Wilkerson's sweet alto saxophone brings the quartet back to earth, while Tommy Crane's drumming supports the melodies and eases them forward

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The eight original compositions that make up guitarist's Greg Ruggiero's debut recording have a deeply introspective air, with gently rocking rhythms and simply stated melodies that often give the album an instrumental pop feeling. But there's plenty of emotional depth here, too, as Ruggiero quietly draws delicate, ethereal designs with electric and acoustic guitars, levitating on Frank LoCrasto's sympathetic piano and keyboard patterns. Rob Wilkerson's sweet alto saxophone brings the quartet back to earth, while Tommy Crane's drumming supports the melodies and eases them forward. —JAZZ TIMES

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Primary Instrument

Guitar

Location

New York City

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

Credentials/Background

$60 per hour SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS • Eleven years of professional jazz guitar performance • Fourteen years as guitar teacher including four years at private music studio • Previous students range all ages, from 4 to 70 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE JAZZ GUITARIST • 2007 International Jazz recording artist on the Fresh Sound/New Talent Jazz label • 2004 Guest artist and clinician at the Crossties Jazz Festival hosted by Delta State University in Greenville, Mississippi • 2000-2004 Guest clinician for the University of New Mexico Jazz History classes • 2003 Curator of Outpost Performance Space Summer Series coordinating three months of performances and hosting each weekly event GUITAR INSTRUCTOR • 2009 Jazz educator at the Academy of Creative Education in Los Angeles, California • In 2004 was added to New School University Applied Music Roster • At Sunny Music Studio, taught individual and group lessons • Fourteen years of self-employed guitar instruction

Clinic/Workshop Information

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Primary Instrument

Guitar

Location

New York City

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

Credentials/Background

$60 per hour SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS • Eleven years of professional jazz guitar performance • Fourteen years as guitar teacher including four years at private music studio • Previous students range all ages, from 4 to 70 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE JAZZ GUITARIST • 2007 International Jazz recording artist on the Fresh Sound/New Talent Jazz label • 2004 Guest artist and clinician at the Crossties Jazz Festival hosted by Delta State University in Greenville, Mississippi • 2000-2004 Guest clinician for the University of New Mexico Jazz History classes • 2003 Curator of Outpost Performance Space Summer Series coordinating three months of performances and hosting each weekly event GUITAR INSTRUCTOR • 2009 Jazz educator at the Academy of Creative Education in Los Angeles, California • In 2004 was added to New School University Applied Music Roster • At Sunny Music Studio, taught individual and group lessons • Fourteen years of self-employed guitar instruction

Clinic/Workshop Information

Focusing on musical Conception - Time feel - Playing as a group - Improvising/ Theory - Sound/ Texture • 2009 Jazz educator at the Academy of Creative Education in Los Angeles, California• • 2004 Guest artist and clinician at the Crossties Jazz Festival hosted by Delta State University in Greenville, Mississippi • 2000-2004 Guest clinician for the University of New Mexico Jazz History classes • In 2004 was added to New School University Applied Music Roster • At Sunny Music Studio, taught individual and group lessons • Fourteen years of self-employed guitar instruction

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