Sean McGowan Quartet at Dazzle Jazz Club

7 & 9pm :: Sean McGowan Quartet :: $12 / $8 students w/ ID

Featuring:
Sean McGowan - guitar
Peter Stoltzman - piano
Greg Garrison - bass
Bill Larson - drums

Sean McGowan is a fingerstyle jazz guitarist who combines many diverse musical influences with unconventional techniques to create a broad palette of textures within his compositions and arrangements for solo guitar. His first recording, River Coffee won the Best Independent Release of the Year Award (2002) from Acoustic Guitar magazine and music from the recording has been featured on BBC’s “Great Guitars” radio program, Maine Public Radio, and has been published in Japan’s Acoustic Guitar magazine and Mel Bay’s Master Anthology of Fingerstyle Guitar, Vol. 3 (2005). His most recent release Indigo offers a compelling portrait of classic jazz standards performed on solo electric archtop guitar. As a soloist, Sean has performed at several festivals including the Novi Sad International Jazz Festival in Serbia, the Newport Guitar Festival, the Classic American Guitar Show in New York, and has collaborated with several dance and improv companies, as well as performances with jazz musicians throughout the Rocky Mountain region....

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7 & 9pm :: Sean McGowan Quartet :: $12 / $8 students w/ ID

Featuring:
Sean McGowan - guitar
Peter Stoltzman - piano
Greg Garrison - bass
Bill Larson - drums

Sean McGowan is a fingerstyle jazz guitarist who combines many diverse musical influences with unconventional techniques to create a broad palette of textures within his compositions and arrangements for solo guitar. His first recording, River Coffee won the Best Independent Release of the Year Award (2002) from Acoustic Guitar magazine and music from the recording has been featured on BBC’s “Great Guitars” radio program, Maine Public Radio, and has been published in Japan’s Acoustic Guitar magazine and Mel Bay’s Master Anthology of Fingerstyle Guitar, Vol. 3 (2005). His most recent release Indigo offers a compelling portrait of classic jazz standards performed on solo electric archtop guitar. As a soloist, Sean has performed at several festivals including the Novi Sad International Jazz Festival in Serbia, the Newport Guitar Festival, the Classic American Guitar Show in New York, and has collaborated with several dance and improv companies, as well as performances with jazz musicians throughout the Rocky Mountain region.

Sean is an avid arts educator and currently serves as an assistant professor of music at the University of Colorado at Denver. He earned a DMA in Guitar Performance from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and has conducted jazz guitar workshops at Bowdoin College, USC, University of Maine, McNally Smith College, String Letter Music School in San Anselmo, and for the Seattle Jazz Guitar Society. He has also presented and performed at the Jazz Education Network conference in New Orleans and numerous College Music Society conferences. Sean is a strong advocate for injury prevention and health education for musicians, and his workshops incorporate a holistic approach to playing. Sean is also a regular contributor to Acoustic Guitar magazine.

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