The Coastal Jazz Association Invites You To
Jazz – Just Across the River
Seven String Heaven!
Benedetto Players Howard Alden & Howard Paul With Special Guest Ben Tucker
March 11th 5 p.m. @ the Westin in Savannah
Howard Alden was Born in Newport Beach, California, in 1958, He began playing at age ten, inspired by recordings of Armstrong, Basie and Goodman, as well as those by guitarists Barney Kessel, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt and George Van Eps.
Upon moving to New York City in 1982, Alden's skills, both as soloist and accompanist, were quickly recognized and sought-out for appearances and recordings with such artists as Joe Bushkin, Ruby Braff, Joe Williams, Warren Vache` and Woody Herman.
He has continued to win accolades from critics and musicians alike, adding Benny Carter, Flip Phillips, Mel Powell, Bud Freeman, Kenny Davern, Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie and George Van Eps, as well as notable contemporaries such as Scott Hamilton and Ken Peplowski to his list of impressive credits.
Howard Alden has been a Concord Jazz recording artist since the late '80s where his prolific recorded output as leader, co-leader, and versatile sideman, has captured an artist of consistently astonishing virtuosity and originality.
Howard Alden was voted "Best Emerging Talent-Guitar" in the first annual JazzTimes critics' poll, 1990, and "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition" in the 1996, 1992, 1993 and 1995 Downbeat critics' poll. As jazz critic Wayne Thompson writes simply, in Jazzscene, "If there are better young jazz guitar players in America than Howard Alden, I have yet to hear them." Howard's growing base of loyal fans couldn't agree more.
Howard Paul, President/CEO of Benedetto Guitars, Inc. readily acknowledges that he is fortunate to combine his vocation and avocation. A highly respected jazz guitarist who detoured along the way to study political science, serve in the military, and rise in corporate management, his enthusiasm for his company is infectious.
As a musician, he has performed/recorded with jazz guitar legends including Bucky Pizzarelli, Jimmy Bruno, Howard Alden, Jack Wilkins, Joe Beck, Joe Negri, Frank Vignola, Andreas Oberg and small group performances with bassist Ben Tucker, flutist Ali Ryerson, vibraphonist Chuck Redd, bassist Phil Flannigan, Oliver Nelson, Jr. and piano legend/Grammy winner Bob James.
Today, he strikes a delicate but exhausting balance between performance at jazz clubs and concert halls, lectures at universities and music schools, collaborations with artist/endorsers, and running the day to day business of manufacturing and sales at the Benedetto Guitars’ workshop located in Savannah.
Ben Tucker is a nationally renowned bassist who has played and recorded with many of the top-shelf players in the jazz idiom. He has been recognized as an unparallel player as well as an astute businessman.
Mr. Tucker has performed for the Newport Jazz Festival, Coastal Jazz Society, Hilton Head Jazz Society, Jacksonville, Vero Beach Jazz Society. He has also been a world traveler playing the countries of Japan, Columbia, Brazil, Argentina and England. (Free for members, $10 for non-members)
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