Please join SJGS at Cafe Racer for a concert with visiting guitarist Doug Munro with guest Matt Benham. The two guitarists will be playing tunes from the Great American Songbook. Suggested donation of $15 for the show. Here is a bit more on Doug if you are unfamiliar:
Doug Munro is a critically acclaimed New York-based jazz guitarist. Since 1987 he has released 18 albums as a leader and has appeared on over 100 recordings as a sideman, producer, and
arranger, working with artists like Dr. John, Michael Brecker, and Dr. Lonnie Smith. He has over 75 published compositions and over 300 recorded arrangements to his credit. In the recording field, Doug has received two Grammy nominations and two NAIRD awards.
His 2011 release, A Very Gypsy Christmas was a top 5 pick by the Wall Street Journal. Amazon.com picked Boogaloo to Beck, which he arranged, co-produced, and on which he played, as a Top Ten Jazz CD of 2003. Doug also did orchestration on the Oscar-winning
documentary film When We Were Kings. His latest CD released in 2017, The Harry Warren Songbook, has received rave reviews and is still receiving strong airplay. He has written four books on jazz improvisation for Warner Brothers Publications and Alfred
Music Publications, including one entitled, From Swing to Bebop, which won the Music and Sound Retailers instructional book of the year award in 2000. His latest book, The Total Latin Guitarist (Alfred Publishing) was released in 2010. Doug now writes exclusively for online publications and instructional websites. He contributes guitar instruction articles for Premier Guitar magazine and is a teaching/artist contributor for TrueFire.com where he has two online instructional courses and his own dedicated subscriber channel called Doug Munro’s Guitar Garage. Munro created and directed the Jazz Studies Program at The Conservatory of Music at Purchase College in 1993 and is now Professor Emeritus. Having worked with a veritable Who’s Who of Jazz and Soul artists, Doug has garnered high praise from both his fellow artists and the press. Dr. Lonnie Smith said of him, “Doug Munro…well he can flat out play!” He has been at the Litchfield Jazz Camp as a teaching artist since 2009.