TOM GUARNA TRIO featuring GEORGE COLLIGAN and MATT JORGENSON

Thu, May 15

“Tom Guarna is one of the brightest stars on guitar today. He has a good sound, amazing facility, great ideas, but most of all taste.”- Russell Malone Tom Guarna has toured five continents with his own quartets and as a top sideman in several exciting groups led by Lenny White, E.J. Strickland, and Les McCann. For his Spring tour he is joined by George Colligan on Hammond B3 organ and Matt Jorgensen on drums. As composer and leader, Guarna has recorded: Get Together (2005), Out from the Underground (2007), Wingspan (2008), Major Minor (2009), Bittersweet (2011), and the hard-grooving Rush (2014), which garnered wide acclaim. His seventh album, The Wishing Stones (2017), featuring an all-star quartet of drummer Brian Blade, bassist John Patitucci and pianist Jon Cowherd, was lauded a 4-star rating in DownBeat Magazine. His most recent album Reimagine, is a classic guitar and Hammond B3 organ trio featuring Pat Bianchi and Jason Tiemann. Tom Guarna is a featured artist on over thirty albums, and composed “If You Dare,” a funk-rock song on Lenny White's 2010 Anomaly CD. Guarna also toured the United States with pianist Manuel Valera, after playing on the Grammy Award-nominated 2012 album, New Cuban Express.