Julien Kasper

Julien Kasper’s enthusiastic fascination with music was sparked at age 8 when — like a lot of music artists — he heard the Beatles for the very first time. His following obsession with music resulted in the buy of his 1st acoustic guitar and — later on — enough time spent in learning the solos of Eric Clapton, B.B. Ruler, Freddie Ruler, and Duane Allman. At age group 15, Kasper jammed frequently having a funk music group in his hometown of Tallahassee, FL. Shortly after he converted 16, Kasper began using harmonica ace/vocalist Pat Ramsey within the blues-rock music group Crosscut Noticed. The music group developed a big fan base across the Eastern Seaboard and opened up shows for performers such as for example B.B. Ruler, Bobby Bland, and Bo Diddley. Kasper later on shifted to Austin, TX, and was recruited to try out in the initial world music/fusion music group Eloise Burrell & Trickle Down, touring frequently throughout Tx and New Mexico. To help expand his musical advancement also to help him cultivate his developing enthusiasm for jazz, Kasper shifted to Miami to wait the College or university of Miami’s jazz and studio room music program on the scholarship. He worked well his method through school because the guitarist in IKO IKO, the home music group at Miami’s leading blues and origins music venue, Cigarette Road. During IKO IKO, Kasper opened up displays for Albert Collins, Albert Ruler,Buddy Guy, and several other main blues performers. Upon graduation, Kasper continuing his education in the College or university of North Tx, where he was granted a jazz acoustic guitar teaching fellowship. He worked well like a freelance musician within the Dallas/Ft. Worthy of region playing jazz, nation, rock and roll, and blues gigs and in addition journeyed to Sweden double, once having a bebop quartet as soon as with his personal trio. Then relocated to New Orleans, gigging there for just one 12 months until he approved a teaching placement in your guitar department in the world-renowned Berklee University of Music in Boston. As a co-employee professor, Kasper shows fretboard tranquility and improvisation and is rolling out two overall performance labs offering in-depth study around the varieties of Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck. Kasper is currently a recognized expert around the styles of both acoustic guitar legends. Since shifting to Boston, Kasper offers documented and toured using the Bruce Katz Music group, Mighty Sam McClain, and Michelle Willson. He’s also concentrating on his very own music group and in early 2003 released his initial CD being a solo musician, Flipping Time.