Artist description With over 30 years experience as a performer and recording artist, Joe Diorio has worked with such Jazz luminaries as Sonny Stitt, Eddie Harris, Ira Sullivan, Stan Getz, Horace Silver, and Freddie Hubbard. Joe tours Europe, Brazil, Canada and the United States regularly promoting his dedication to pure and avant-garde jazz.Joe has released an instructional video, written articles for Guitar Player Magazine and authored more than eight Jazz instructional books.His four most recent releases on CD with Italian Jazz label RAM Records include: "I Remember Wes" a tribute to Wes Montgomery; A solo guitar album "We Will Meet Again" ; "Double Take" with live recordings of the performances with Riccardo Del Fra; and "Rare Birds" a duo album with Mick Goodrick.Highly respected as an educator, Joe currently teaches at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and has conducted Jazz Guitar seminars throughout the United States, Europe and Brazil. Additionally, Joe was one of the three founding instructors for the Guitar Institute of Technology (G.I.T.) in Hollywood California. Joe is currently in the process of releasing new CDs on his own record label for U.S. and international distribution. Joe is also publishing new books and instructional videos through his new company JoeDiorio.com.

Music Style Jazz, BeBop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Straight Ahead Jazz

Musical Influences Bird, Rollins, Trane, Hall, etc.

Group Members Joe Diorio

Instruments Guitar

Albums Stateside, 20th Century Impressions, To Jobim with Love, I Remember You, Narayani, and many more.

Press Reviews “Considered one of the worlds greatest players, Joe Diorio is a master of the guitar, skilled in mainstream performance and expert in Free-Form Style playing.” — Michael Ricci, All About Jazz“Joe Diorio is one of the most mature and uncompromising new plectrists to work the room since Joe Pass.” — Leonard Feather“...Joe Diorio has been producing beautifully conceived projects… carefully crafted and exquisitely played.” — 20th Century Guitar Magazine“Diorio has long been a legendary figure in modern music amongst guitarists... [he has a] forward thinking approach to music, harmonic and rhythmic sophistication with chops unlike that of any other guitarist of his generation.” — David Dorkin, Fuse Magazine“An undervalued virtoso.” — Rolling Stone“A brilliant if generally overlooked guitarists with an adventurous spirit and a boppish style of his own…:— Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Additional Info Joe has written many books on jazz and produced a VHS video on creative jazz guitar.

Location San Deigo, CA - USA

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