John Carlini - The Most Amazing Jazz Music Guitar Performer Ever!

Jazz guitarist John Carlini is a musical renaissance man! He embraces jazz guitar tunes as well as all other styles of music with a comprehension and passion that is evident everytime he plays his guitar. His influences range from guitar performers like Andres Segovia, Django Reinhardt, and Lenny Breau to pianist Bill Evans and saxophone player John Coltrane. Carlini has the uncanny capacity to integrate all these artists' styles and make them his own! John truly has music in his blood. His father was a violin player in the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and his mom was a virtuoso classical piano player. John went on to collabrate in musical ventures with modern acoustic musicians such as David Grisman and Tony Rice and to publish his own collection books of jazz guitar tabs and jazz guitar tablatures.

John Carlini was named by Frets Magazine as a founding fellow member of the revolutionary West Coast new acoustic music movement of the 1970s. He was the lead guitarist in the ground breaking new acoustic music group, The Great American Music Band. Ten years earlier after finding the Wheeling, West Virginia, Jamboree on the radio, John made the New York City folk music scene even though he was still a teenager. Sitting in for Jim Rooney with Bill Keith's group, he met David Grisman. In the following two decades this fortuitous union would change the world's viewpoint of what acoustic string music could be. A graduate of both Boston's Berklee School of Music as an arranging and composition major and the United States Navy School of Music, the place he performed big band rhythm guitar in The Navy Show Band,

Carlini grew to become the musical director of the recently formed David Grisman Quintet. The band's distinctive sound emanated in part from his classy, jazz influenced arrangements.
Carlini's compositions are highlighted on David Grisman's "Dawg Jazz" (1982) and his orchestrations include work with The Turtle Island String Quartet and The Kronos Quartet. John additionally orchestrated David Grisman's score for the Federico DeLaurentis movie "King of The Gypsies". John Carlini is the guitarist on Grisman's Gammy nominated "Dawg '90" and he played on stage with Grisman and Stephane Grepelli at Carnegie Hall. In 1992 Carlini was a New York "Drama Desk Award" nominee for his orchestrations in the hit off Broadway music "Song of Singapore" which was also recorded on CD.

John has recently been developing his new acoustic guitar music with two bands - The John Carlini Jazz Ensemble which showcases jazz focused aspects of his pieces and Over the Edge that is defining a harmonically advanced bluegrass based music. Carlini's masterful jazz guitar musicianship is broadly acknowledged. Guitar Player Magazine terms him "a wily mainstream jazz guitar veteran with an unerring sense for all idioms". Fortunately for aspiring guitarists, John Carlini has published several jazz guitar tab books and instructional DVD programs that teach his single note improvised solos and chord melody solos as well as the pickstyle and fingerstyle guitar techniques he utilizes to play them.

By: Auburn Walker

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