Dave Stryker

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Dave Stryker
Birth nameDavid Michael Stryker
Born (1957-03-30) March 30, 1957 (age 66)
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s)Musician
Instrument(s)Guitar
Labels SteepleChase
Website www.davestryker.com

Dave Stryker (born March 30, 1957) is an American jazz guitarist. He has recorded over twenty-five albums as a leader and has been a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and Kevin Mahogany.

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Career

Stryker grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. When he was ten years old, he was inspired by the Beatles to start playing guitar. His interest was rock and roll until he heard the albums My Favorite Things by John Coltrane and Beyond the Blue Horizon by George Benson. By seventeen, he was a jazz guitarist in Omaha. In 1978 he moved to Los Angeles where he took lessons from another Omaha native, Billy Rogers, and met organist Jack McDuff. After moving to New York City, he toured with McDuff in 1984-1985, then spent ten years with saxophonist Stanley Turrentine. [1]

Stryker formed a band with Steve Slagle and a trio with Jared Gold and Tony Reedus (later McClenty Hunter and Billy Hart). [1] He worked with Kevin Mahogany as sideman, composer, and arranger, appeared with him at Carnegie Hall, and toured with him in Europe and Japan. [2] He has also worked with Eliane Elias, Javon Jackson, and Andy LaVerne. [1]

He teaches jazz guitar at Indiana University and Montclair State University and at the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshop, the Litchfield Jazz Camp, and the Veneto/New School Workshop in Italy. [2]

In 2018 Stryker began teaching jazz guitar online through the ArtistWorks music education website. [3]

Awards and honors

Discography

As leader

With Stryker/Slagle Band

With Trio Mundo

As sideman

With Jared Gold

With Steve Slagle

With others

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Yanow, Scott (2013). The Great Jazz Guitarists. San Francisco: Backbeat. p. 190. ISBN   978-1-61713-023-6.
  2. 1 2 "Faculty: Dave Stryker". info.music.indiana.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  3. Renowned Jazz Guitarist Dave Stryker Joins ArtistWorks' Extensive List of Online Teaching Artists