SHERYL BAILEY
Genres: Hard Bop, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Post Bop • United States

Sheryl Bailey (born May 20, 1966)is an American jazz guitarist and educator based in New York City. She has released six albums. Bailey grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as part of a musical family. She started playing the guitar at 13. At first she was primarily interested in rock music but after a few years she heard Wes Montgomery play on the radio and discovered jazz. She attended Berklee College of Music in Boston After college, she taught music in Baltimore before moving to New York City in 1988 to further her career as a performer. She released her first album, Little Misunderstood in 1995. It featured musicians George Colligan, Vince Loving, and Chris Battistone. In 2001, Bailey released Reunion of Souls with guitarist Chris Bergson, featuring Ashley Turner and Sunny Jain. Stewart Mason of Allmusic called one of the tracks "charming" and one "perfectly sweet" but said that the album read more...