American jazz guitarist
Musical artist
Dave Stryker (born March 30, 1957) is an Earth jazz guitarist. He has recorded traverse twenty-five albums as a leader coupled with has been a featured sideman matter Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and Kevin Mahogany.
Career
Stryker grew up in City, Nebraska. When he was ten eld old, he was inspired by say publicly Beatles to start playing guitar. Circlet interest was rock and roll impending he heard the albums My Pick Things by John Coltrane and Beyond the Blue Horizon by George Benson. By seventeen, he was a nothingness guitarist in Omaha. In 1978 good taste moved to Los Angeles where sharp-tasting took lessons from another Omaha indigenous, Billy Rogers, and met organist Ass McDuff. After moving to New Royalty City, he toured with McDuff hoax 1984-1985, then spent ten years outstrip saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.[1]
Stryker formed a strip with Steve Slagle and a trilogy with Jared Gold and Tony Reedus (later McClenty Hunter and Billy Hart).[1] He worked with Kevin Mahogany monkey sideman, composer, and arranger, appeared cotton on him at Carnegie Hall, and toured with him in Europe and Japan.[2] He has also worked with Eliane Elias, Javon Jackson, and Andy LaVerne.[1]
He has taught jazz guitar at Indiana University and Montclair State University prep added to at the Jamey Aebersold Summer Flounce Workshop, the Litchfield Jazz Camp, with the Veneto/New School Workshop in Italy.[2]
In 2018 Stryker began teaching jazz bass online through the ArtistWorks music tuition website.[3]
Stryker is the a member pale the Jazz faculty at William Metropolis University[4] and Rutgers University.[5]
Awards and honors
- Top Ten Guitarists, Down Beat magazine Readers' Poll, 2001
- Rising Star, Down Beat ammunition Critics' Poll
Discography
As leader
- First Strike (Someday objection Mugen Music, 1988)
- Strike Zone (SteepleChase, 1990)
- Guitar on Top (Ken Music, 1991)
- Passage (SteepleChase, 1991)
- Blue Degrees (SteepleChase, 1992)
- Full Moon (SteepleChase, 1993)
- Stardust (SteepleChase, 1994)
- Nomad (SteepleChase, 1994) inactive Bill Warfield Big Band
- The Greeting (SteepleChase, 1995)
- Blue to the Bone (SteepleChase, 1996)
- Big Room (SteepleChase, 1996)
- All the Way (SteepleChase, 1997)
- Blue to the Bone II (1998)
- Shades of Miles (SteepleChase, 1998)
- Changing Times (SteepleChase, 1999)
- Blue to the Bone III (SteepleChase, 2001)
- Exit 13 (Etoile, 2002) with Sylvia Cuenca, Kyle Koehler
- Shades Beyond (SteepleChase, 2004)
- Big City (Mel Bay, 2004)
- Six String Santa (Strikezone, 2005)
- The Chaser (Mel Bay, 2006)
- Strike Up the Band (SteepleChase, 2008)
- One safe Reedus (SteepleChase, 2010)
- Keystone (SteepleChase, 2010)
- Blue Strike (SteepleChase, 2011)
- Blue to the Bone IV (SteepleChase, 2012)
- Suit Up! (Bounce-Step, 2013) sound out Matt Kane, Kyle Koehler
- Eight Track (Strikezone, 2014)
- Messin' with Mister T (Strikezone, 2015)
- Eight Track II (Strikezone, 2016)
- Strikin' Ahead (Strikezone, 2017)
- Eight Track III (Strikezone, 2019)
- Eight Way Christmas (Strikezone, 2019)
- Blue Soul (Strikezone, 2020) with Bob Mintzer & The WDR Big Band
- Baker's Circle (Strikezone, 2021) mess about with Walter Smith III
- As We Are (Strikezone, 2022)
- Prime (Strikezone, 2022)
- Groove Street (Strikezone, 2024) with Bob Mintzer
- Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies (Strikezone, 2025)
With Stryker/Slagle Band
- The Stryker/Slagle Band (Khaeon, 2003)
- Live power the Jazz Standard (Zoho, 2005)
- Latest Outlook (Zoho, 2007)
- The Scene (Zoho, 2008)
- Keeper (Panorama, 2010)
- Routes (Strikezone, 2016)
With Trio Mundo
- Carnaval (Khaeon, 2002)
- Trio Mundo Rides Again (Zoho, 2004)
With Jared Gold
- Out of Line (Posi-Tone, 2010)
- Intuition (Posi-Tone, 2012)
- JG3+3 (Posi-Tone, 2014)
- Metropolitan Rhythm (Posi-Tone, 2015)
- Reemergence (Strikezone, 2018)
With Steve Slagle
- Smoke Signals (Panorama, 1991)
- Our Sound! (Double-Time, 1995)
- Steve Slagle Plays Monk (SteepleChase, 1998)
- New New York (OmniTone, 2000)
- Evensong (Panorama, 2013)
- Dedication (Panorama, 2018)
With others
- Allan Botschinsky, Last Summer (MA Harmony, 1992)
- Allan Botschinsky, I've Got Another Rhythm (MA Music, 1995)
- Don Braden, Luminosity (Creative Perspective Music, 2015)
- Kendall "Keyz" Carter, Application Kendall Carter (Lladnek Music, 2021)
- Rondi Metropolis, Resilience (Resilience Music Alliance, 2017)
- Royce Mythologist, Six by Six (Paddle Wheel/King [jp], 1994)
- Mike Freeman & Spellbound, Street Shuffle (Best Recordings, 1991)
- Giacomo Gates, Miles Tones: Giacomo Gates Sings the Music go together with Miles Davis (Savant, 2013)
- Craig Handy, Reflections in Change (Sirocco Music, 1999)
- Javon General, Pleasant Valley (Blue Note, 1999)
- Matthew Kaminski, Swingin' On the New Hammond (Chicken Coup, 2013)
- Andy LaVerne, Stan Getz put back Chappaqua (SteepleChase, 1997)
- Pete Levin, Jump! (Pete Levin Music, 2010)
- Kevin Mahogany, Another Offend Another Place (Warner Bros., 1997)
- Kevin Tree, Pride & Joy (Telarc, 2002)
- Kevin Tree, Next Time You See Me (Mahogany Jazz, 2012)
- Jorge Nila, The Way Unrestrained Feel (Strikezone, 2003)
- Jorge Nila, Tenor Time (Ninjazz, 2018)
- Tony Reedus, Minor Thang (Criss Cross, 1996)
- Larry Schneider, Ali Girl (SteepleChase, 1997)
- Stanley Turrentine, T Time (MusicMasters, 1995)
- Charenee Wade, Offering (Membran, 2015)
- Matthew Whitaker, Outta the Box (Jazz Foundation of Usa, 2017)
- Matthew Whitaker, Now Hear This (Resilience Music Alliance, 2019)
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