FREDDIE BRYANT
Genres: Latin Jazz, Post Bop, Third Stream • United States

Freddie Bryant has been playing the guitar since he was 8 years old. His early training was in classical guitar, but he soon started jazz in junior high school. He kept up the dual studies throughout high school and college developing the different techniques and musical styles separately and fully. The result was a thorough understanding and grasp of each idiom. After college he worked primarily as a jazz guitarist but kept up a steady schedule of classical performances. A few years later he received his Masters Degree from the Yale School of Music. It was during this time that the two techniques began to meld together. He began to play Brazilian jazz on the classical guitar, and his compositions for the classical guitar started to show more jazz influence in harmony and even improvisation. He is still a jazz guitarist and a classical guitarist but his music is starting read more...