ALEX GOODMAN
Genres: 21st Century Modern, Third Stream, Post Bop, Nu Jazz • Canada

Winner of both first prize and the Public's Choice Award at the 2014 Montreux Jazz Festival International Guitar Competition, Alex Goodman has been hailed as "a definite musical voice" (Guitar International), “a jazz phenomenon the world over” (Birmingham Times), and as a player of "fluid lyricism" (Downbeat) and "Dazzling improvisational dexterity" (New York City Jazz Record) In 2013, Alex's CD Bridges was nominated for a JUNO as Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year, Canada's highest musical honor. Since moving to New York in 2012, Goodman has recorded with artists including John Patitucci, Dick Oatts, Kevin Hays and Rich Perry and performed with a variety of notable jazz musicians like Charles Lloyd, Eric Harland, Ari Hoenig, Terell Stafford, Ben Wolfe, and John Riley. Alex was awarded a 2013 ASCAP Herb Alpert Jazz Composer Award, has written a book of solo guitar etudes and has composed extensively for jazz groups, chamber groups, read more...