Ojai Jazz Concerts Presents Bruce Forman - Guitar Virtuoso at Ojai Art Center

Bruce Forman was Clint Eastwood's first and only choice of guitarist for the soundtracks of his Oscar-winning movies "Million Dollar Baby", Flags of Our Fathers", and "Hereafter"! Furthermore, Forman has played and recorded with Ray Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Barney Kessel, Bobby Hutcherson, Roger Kellaway, Joe Henderson, and many more !

Imagine receiving an invitation to a gala featuring John Coltrane, Sigmund Freud, and Faust.

Bruce Forman’s “The Red Guitar” is all that and more. It draws on Forman’s decades of experience as a formidable jazz guitarist and his considerable skill as a storyteller and teacher, producing a work that is greater than the sum of its dazzling parts....

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Bruce Forman was Clint Eastwood's first and only choice of guitarist for the soundtracks of his Oscar-winning movies "Million Dollar Baby", Flags of Our Fathers", and "Hereafter"! Furthermore, Forman has played and recorded with Ray Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Barney Kessel, Bobby Hutcherson, Roger Kellaway, Joe Henderson, and many more !

Imagine receiving an invitation to a gala featuring John Coltrane, Sigmund Freud, and Faust.

Bruce Forman’s “The Red Guitar” is all that and more. It draws on Forman’s decades of experience as a formidable jazz guitarist and his considerable skill as a storyteller and teacher, producing a work that is greater than the sum of its dazzling parts.

A story in and about jazz, The Red Guitar showcases Bruce Forman’s genre—breaking inventiveness and his ability to improvise and create within a classical form. Enlisting the full power of the jazz idiom and integrating it with seasoned and provocative story-telling, he confronts the dilemma of artistic obsession face-to-face—by creating a work of art that simultaneously explores and demonstrates the hold that music has over its most ardent followers, the hold that poses itself as a life-or-death, must-be-solved-question to Forman and his ilk: “The Red Guitar. Do you play it…or does it play you?

Doors 7pm | Show 7:30pm

$25 online | $30 at door | $10 students (w/ valid I.D.)

Free parking across the street at Cafe Emporium (gates open @ 6pm)

Questions? Call Rich @ 805-746-0936

As always, we are hugely appreciative of our corporate sponsors:

Lyndon Thomas Insurance, Ojai Business Center, Agave Maria's, and Hi-Tech Help.

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