PETER HAND
Genres: Big Band, Hard Bop • United States

Peter Hand is a critically-acclaimed jazz guitarist, composer and arranger who performs in settings ranging from solo to big band. A New York City native, he took classical piano lessons as a child before switching to guitar in his early teens. Growing up in New York in the mid-1960s, Peter was fortunate to hear many great artists from different musical genres perform in venues from Greenwich Village to Broadway to Carnegie Hall. After first becoming aware of blues artists such as Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters and others, he become especially interested in the blues guitar sounds of B.B. King, Albert King and Buddy Guy, and worked at developing his own style and sound. While a pre-med student at Binghamton University, Peter led his own blues and R & B bands, and during his third year, decided he wanted to pursue music as a career (with no regrets about leaving read more...