Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Dave Liebman & Vic Juris "My Favorite Things"

Rest In Peace, jazz guitarist, Vic Juris.  He passed away, on December 30th, due to cancer, at age 66.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Juris

Here is Vic Juris, performing "My Favorite Things" with Dave Liebman on tenor saxophone.

David Liebman, tenor sax; Vic Juris, guitar; Tony Marino, bass and Jamie Haddad on drums play Coltrane's immortal feature.


Here is more background on Vic Juris from Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack) on YouTube, actually part of the above Wikipedia article which is linked.

Vic Juris, September 26, 1953 - December 30, 2019

Vic Juris was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, but he moved with his family to Parsippany early in his life. ] In 1963, at the age of 10, he began learning guitar. At 11, he studied guitar at the home of his teacher, Ed Berg, and got interested in jazz listening to Berg's records of guitarists Django Reinhardt, Jim Hall, Barney Kessel, Jimmy Raney, and Johnny Smith. When asked about albums that made an impact on him as a kid, Juris cites Rubber Soul by The Beatles, The Dynamic Duo by Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith, Larry Coryell's debut album, and Are You Experienced by Jimi Hendrix. In his teens he played the rock music of the 1960s. When he was 19, he met blind saxophonist Eric Kloss and they became friends.He made his first recording on Kloss's album Bodies' Warmth (Muse, 1975). Around the same time, he met guitarist Pat Martino, who became a friend and mentor.

Juris recorded with Richie Cole during 1976–78 and released his debut album as a leader, Road Song, in 1979.[3] In the early 1980s, he turned to acoustic guitar in duos with Larry Coryell and Biréli Lagrène, and in the late 1980s he worked with Gary Peacock's band. Since 1991 he has spent much of his career with saxophonist David Liebman.  During the 1990s, he worked as sideman with Lee Konitz and Peggy Stern (1992), Benny Waters (1993), Jeanie Bryson (1993–94), Gary Peacock (since 1994), Steve LaSpina (since 1995), Judi Silvano (1996), Ken Serio (1996, 2007) and Joe Locke (1998).  Juris taught at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Lehigh University, and Rutgers University and has written instructional books for guitar.





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