Gary Wittner

Gary Wittner initial got fired up to jazz when he heard the Supplement Ellis/Joe Move album Seven Come Eleven. However the singular event which added most towards the path Wittner’s profession has used was the Thelonious Monk documenting of “Monk’s Blues.” Since that time, Wittner offers spent a significant part of his jazz profession advertising Monk’s music through shows, lectures, and teaching and is becoming among the country’s leading Monk specialists. Wittnef placed on his 1st all-Monk concert in Colorado in 1982. Posting the performing system with Clark Terry, he performed an all-Monk system in the 1994 International Association of Jazz Teachers Convention. Wittner offers carried his trigger to European countries. He has made an appearance in the 1989 USA Times in St. Petersburg, Russia with the 1994 Leeds International Music Event in England. Over time in his try to proselytize the music of his preferred jazz number, Wittner spent some time working with famous brands Richard Davis, Eddie Gomez, and Reggie Workman. In 1999, Roadway, Wittner’s 1st album within the Unseen Music label, premiered. It includes not merely Monk compositions, but Wittner originals aswell. The album is definitely enhanced considerably by the current presence of Howard Johnson playing tuba and contrabass clarinet, causeing this to be session a distinctive, lasting listening encounter. Wittner in addition has produced a reserve of transcriptions, Thelonious Monk for Electric guitar, which includes been released internationally. He is constantly on the progress the music of Monk and jazz music generally, through single jazz gigs at jazz night clubs, festivals with lectures along the East Coastline, in Canada, and in European countries.