ANDREW HARTMAN
Genres: Post-Fusion Contemporary, Classic Fusion • United States

New York City based guitarist Andrew Hartman was born into a musical family in Cincinnati, OH. Hartman grew up playing a variety of instruments, beginning his formal studies on trumpet, but with the guitar occupying an ever-increasing number of hours in his day. Hartman studied at the Ohio State University in Columbus, and began performing with musicians such as Andy Woodson, Mark Flugge, Paul Brown, Michael Cox, and Derek DiCenzo. In addition to working as a sideman, he led the group Still Motion, for which he was also the main composer and arranger. The quintet released an album of Hartman's original compositions, Andrew Hartman and Still Motion, in 2010. In 2011, Hartman moved in London, UK where he worked as a freelance musician and teacher. Over the course of a year, he met and performed with some of the UK’s finest jazz musicians, eventually leading a group playing his new read more...