Lloyd Gregory at The 7 Mile House 6/5/14
Channel: Ron Davis
Date: 2014-06-06

LLOYD GREGORY
Background
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An award-winning guitarist and composer, San Francisco based Lloyd Gregory is a well-established musician whose style is smooth, soulful, melodic, flowing and immediately charismatic. His extensive R&B roots add a distinct texture to his styling. Gregory is a master of both acoustic and electric guitar. Minor 7th: Acoustic Music Review has commented, "Lloyd expertly fuses soul, pop and jazz, forging a hybrid that is both enjoyable and intellectually stimulating."
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The legendary Stanley Clarke sums up Gregory, "I love Lloyd's style as a musician. He is a sweet, warm guy, which comes out in his music. His music reminds me of a modern-day Wes Montgomery."
 
"Music is comprised of traditions, even when mixed with innovations," Gregory says, "so, of course, every musician is building upon sounds that came before. I admire and respect those jazz guitarists and I learned a lot from them. But my influences also include early soul innovators like Curtis Mayfield, many of the guitarists in the various Motown artists' bands, and Ike Turner. Going even further, I have been inspired by rock'n'rollers from Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley through Hendrix to Eddie Van Halen. And on the other end of the spectrum I have been influenced by acoustic players who bridged between jazz, Latin and classical like Django Reinhardt, Bola Sete, Andres Segovia and Al De Meola. I never sat down and  learned other guitarists' solos from their albums. Instead, I studied the tools and language they were using."

Find Lloyd at http://www.lloyd-gregory.com/