Artist description Cool Jazz. Guitar Chord Melody and linear solo lines over a bed of latin, rock and groove oriented rhythms.

Music Style Jazz

Musical Influences Montgomery, Benson, Pass, Methany

Similar Artists Benson, Methany

Artist History Doug Booth has been playing guitar since the age of seven. He has performed extensively throughout the United States, Cananda and Mexico. He currently is a faculty member at Grossmont college in San Diego California where he is an instructor of contemporary guitar studies and Theory II for guitarist.

Group Members Doug Booth, Chuck Phillips, Steve Baker and Chris Conti. Later releases will include other performers.

Instruments Guitar and Bass

Albums Ars Nova / Doug Booth -Guess My Mood /MIke Keneally - Hat, Tar Tapes Vol. 1 and 2

Press Reviews Doug Booth, contemporary guitar studies, is both an instructor and a perfomer of guitar and bass. Beginning at the age of seven, Doug has studied piano, flute, and percussion, in addition to the bass and guitar. Interested in many different styles of music, he eventually found that his ear "bent" towards the jazz guitar styles of Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and early George Benson. By age fifteen Doug was chosen to play with the Santa Clara Honor Jazz Band and a year later with the California All State Jazz Band. Doug has recently completed work on a new CD. You can hear Doug Booth on a variety of recordings including the recordings of the jazz fusion group, Ars Nova, and Zappa guitarist Mike Keneally's internationally released CD's. Mr. Booth is currently performing with "Rockola" which can be found performing locally, and internationally. He can also be seen playing keyboards with "The Steely Damned."Mr. Booth has also been a founding member of the Grossmont College Music Department Faculty Jazz Quintet called Ars Nova. Doug Booth has been a member of the Grossmont College Music Faculty since 1991. His classes include Class Guitar I, and Music Theory for Guitar II.

Location San Diego, Calif - USA

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