An Evening of Jazz With the Dave Stryker Organ Quartet

“A Tribute to Stanley Turrentine” with the Dave Stryker Organ Quartet will be performed at Harford Community College, Recital Hall #1, on Friday, April 29 at 8 PM.

The Village Voice calls Dave Stryker “one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years.” Stryker leads his own group (with 26 CDs as a leader to date) and co-leads The Stryker/Slagle Band. He has also worked as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and many others.

According to www. davestryker.com, Dave’s new CD “Messin’ with Mister T,” is a celebration of the man he worked with for over a decade – Stanley Turrentine, “Mister T” – with 10 of the greatest tenor sax players on the scene today. It went to #1 on JazzWeek Radio and stayed in the Top 50 for 20 weeks, and has received great reviews including 4 1/2 stars in Downbeat magazine. Dave’s last CD “Eight Track” was #9 for 2014 on the Jazz Week Radio Charts where it stayed for 20 weeks, topping off at #3 for three weeks. Downbeat magazine picked it as one of the Top CDs of 2014, ran a feature article in the June 2014 issue on Dave, and voted him into the 2014 Downbeat Critics and Readers Poll for the seventh time.

From 1986 to 1995, Stryker played with the legendary saxophonist Stanley Turrentine. They performed throughout the world at major festivals, concert halls, and clubs. With Turrentine, Stryker was able to play with such jazz greats as Dizzy Gillespie and Freddie Hubbard.

Dave has recorded and published over 150 of his own compositions and has released “The Dave Stryker Songbook” with most of his original music. Also 18 of the compositions from the first five SteepleChase CDs are compiled in the book The Music of Dave Stryker.

Dave continues to perform with The Dave Stryker Organ Trio, his Blue to the Bone Band, and The Stryker/Slagle Band. Gigs for The Stryker/Slagle Band have included a week at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival, The Blue Note in Las Vegas, The Jazz Bakery in LA, and a tour of Japan.

Stryker is the adjunct professor of jazz guitar at Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University,
and at the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University. He also teaches privately at The Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshop, The Litchfield Jazz Camp, and the Jazzhouse Kids Workshop in Montclair, NJ. His book Dave Stryker’s Jazz Guitar Improvisation Method is available on his website at www.davestryker.com.

Tickets are $1-$10 at LIVEatHarfordCC.com, the HCC Ticket Office in the Chesapeake Center, or 443-412-2211. Reasonable accommodations for a documented disability may be requested by calling Disability Support Services, 443-412-2402, in advance of participation. A minimum notice of two weeks may be needed to provide some accommodations.