Denny Jiosa

Decidedly not aimed toward purists, guitarist/composer Denny Jiosa’s music blends cool Wes Montgomery-esque jazz with components of rock & roll, gospel, R&B, and blues, growing from his extensive experience like a wide-ranging Nashville session musician and producer. A indigenous of Huntington, IN, Jiosa started learning your guitar at age group seven; by 13, his music group was carrying out at college dances around the region. During senior high school, Jiosa also performed trumpet, French horn, and bass, and sang within the choir. Jiosa’s early like was rock and roll, especially performers like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, Santana, and Grand Funk Railroad, but his likes gradually broadened to add jazz and blues. In the past due ’70s, Jiosa became a member of Troy Shondell’s music group, touring the united states around the ’50s rock and roll & move revival circuit. Additional bands resulted in opening slot machines for such performers as B.B. Ruler, Glen Campbell, and Leon Russell. Jiosa relocated to LA in the middle-’80s to wait your guitar Institute of Technology and develop his jazz chops, also acquiring personal lessons with Frank Gambale. Upon his graduation, he shifted to Nashville and do session work with nation and R&B works. Whilst in Nashville, Jiosa effectively auditioned (as both an professional and musician) for a component within a six-character touring musical, Pump Guys & Dinettes, and once again toured the united states. After returning first from the ’90s, Jiosa was employed to control a recording studio room, where he added creating, arranging, and anatomist to his instrumental responsibilities; his ideal successes was included with gospel performers Yolanda Adams and Ben Tankard. In the meantime, Jiosa was also honing his compositional abilities. His first single recording, Moving Photos, made an appearance in 1995; it had been accompanied by 1996’s Internal Voices (which included the radio strike “Lamps of the town”), 1998’s Jazzberry Pie, and 1999’s Among Close friends. Jiosa’s music offers proven especially favored by new adult modern and easy jazz radio types.