John Carlini – The Most Incredible Jazz Music Guitar Personality Ever!
Jazz guitar player John Carlini is a musical renaissance man! He plays jazz guitar tunes and all other kinds of music with a knowledge and enthusiasm 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 saxophonist John Coltrane. Carlini has the uncanny capacity to include all these players’ styles and make them his own! John truly has music in his blood. His dad was a violin player in the New York Philharmonic Orchestra while 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 innovative 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 right after finding the Wheeling, West Virginia, Jamboree on the radio, John made the New York City folk music scene although he was still a teenager. Sitting in for Jim Rooney with Bill Keith’s band, he met David Grisman. In the following 2 decades this fortuitous union would change the music industry’s perception of what acoustic string music could be. A graduate student 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 music director of the newly formed David Grisman Quintet. The band’s charcteristic sound emanated in part from his classy, jazz tinged arrangements.
Carlini’s arrangements are showcased 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 film “King of The Gypsies”. John Carlini is the guitar performer on Grisman’s Gammy nominated “Dawg ’90” and he played 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 musical “Song of Singapore” that was also released on CD.
John has recently been developing his new acoustic guitar pieces with 2 – The John Carlini Jazz Ensemble which showcases jazz oriented elements of his songs and Over the Edge which is defining a harmonically sophisticated bluegrass based music. Carlini’s masterful jazz guitar musicianship is widely acknowledged. Guitar Player Magazine calls him “a wily mainstream jazz guitar veteran with an unerring feel for all idioms”. Luckily for aspiring guitarists, John Carlini has released various jazz guitar tab books and instructional DVD programs which teach his single note improvised solos and chord melody solos and the pickstyle and fingerstyle guitar techniques he uses to play them.
Peabody Conservatory trained guitarist Steven Herron helps guitar players become better guitarists. His company ChordMelody.com features an enormous selection of jazz guitar tablatures
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