DOM MINASI
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, 21st Century Modern, Classic Fusion, Third Stream, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Post Bop, Hard Bop • United States

Guitarist Dom Minasi was born March 6, 1943, in New York City, the same birth date as Wes Montgomery. A primarily self-taught, natural musician, in his youth he backed singers and played his share of rock & roll, church dances, and small jazz combo gigs starting at age 15. As an educator, Minasi took many private students at a young age, while launching a professional career with two albums for the Blue Note label in the mid-'70s. Unfortunately, this was a time when Blue Note was being sold, and the company was not supportive promotionally. Minasi dropped out of the recording scene and freelanced locally for the next 15 years, playing occasionally with jazz pianist Dennis Moorman and going back to school at Lehman College, where he graduated with a degree in composition in 1990. By 1993 he was doing off-Broadway shows, in the midst of writing nearly 300 read more...