Renowned jazz guitarist and vocalist Randy Johnston plays Breezy Jazz House on Friday, November 22.
Randy Johnston is one of the most widely recorded and prolific guitarists, vocalists, and performers of his generation. He has released 14 albums as a leader for the Small World, Muse, Highnote, J Curve, Mel Bay, and Random Act labels and has appeared on dozens of recordings with other top recording artists. He has travelled the world playing at venues on 5 different continents and over 50 countries which include Carnagie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, The Tokyo Jazz Festival in Japan and countless others.
In addition to his solo career, Randy has toured and played with some of the most acclaimed artists in jazz and rock, including Lionel Hampton, Houston Person and Etta Jones, Lonnie Smith, and Joey DeFrancesco, and The Allman Brothers Band. He played for 18 years as a regular member of the Lou Donaldson Quartet.
Randy’s current group is a tightly knit and like minded unit featuring some of the most brilliant musicians on the East Coast of the United States. In addition, he is a solo performer in high demand at a wide variety of venues which specialize in music from Jazz to Rock, from Country to Folk. His live performances are extremely creative and feature very distictive versions of songs selected from the Jazz ,Classic Rock, Blues, and Folk idioms.
Randy is an accomplished composer and producer, having written over 50 songs and instrumental compositions which have been recorded by both his group and by several other musicians in different styles. Randy has produced over a dozen albums for 6 dirfferent record labels including Columbia.
Randy has also taught music at New York University, the Hartt School of Music in Hartford Connecticut, the University of Miami in Coral Gables Florida, and several other major American universities of note, in addition to conducting master classes in such diverse locations as Wales UK and Helsinki Finland.
