Artist description Guitar/bass duo building on the solid tradition of jazz.

Music Style Mainstream Jazz

Similar Artists Joe Pass/Neils Henning-Orsted Peterson, Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall/Ron Carter

Artist History Rich and Matt had known one another for quite awhile before they put together Ten String Swing. The duo came about only because fate finally let it happen! Matt had originally gone to Rich (“Central Mass guitar guru” as friend Troy called him) for lessons in improvisation. The scheduling didn’t work out, and the two went their separate ways. The two musicians crossed paths several times later on at sessions and gigs, but both were busy with other projects. Matt finally got a call to play a last-minute New Year’s Eve gig with Rich’s quartet (“a dream come true,” he said later). As luck would have it he was in traction with a broken hip at the time. Then, after Matt’s longtime guitar partner Troy had left town, Matt called Rich and asked him: “Do you want to play?” Rich had been thinking of making the same call, but Matt had beat him to it. Thus were born the Saturday morning sessions. For the next two years or so the pair got together on Saturday mornings to play. Cups of coffee steamed on the dilapidated amplifiers in Rich’s tiny room at Clemente Guitar Studio as the two began what was simply a weekly playing session. Soon, guitar students began to brave the pigeon droppings on Portland Street early for their lessons, just to hear the two play. Over time Rich and Matt developed their grooves and a common vocabulary, so that they could simply walk in and play the music they both love, without a lot of worry about arrangements. The music began to come together naturally for them.

Group Members Rich Falco: Guitars Matt Brown: Bass

Instruments Guitar, Bass

Location Worcester, MA - USA

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