KOMBO, 'THIS IS THE GOOD ONE' Full Album Drops 4/14/23
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KOMBO, 'THIS IS THE GOOD ONE' Full Album Drops 4/14/23 〰️
guitarist/composer
John has played & recorded with legends like George Benson, Al Jarreau, Bob James, Barry Manilow, Janet Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and many others.
Raised in California but a New York City resident for more than 20years, John began his musical adventures playing flute, accordion and then clarinet in grade school. Although he continued his clarinet studies into the 10th grade, his older brother Roger introduced him to the guitar at age 12.
“The old jazz station in LA was KBCA and the first DJ I heard on the station was the jazz great Gerald Wilson. He played some Wes that day, Horace Silver and Clifford Brown and that was that.”
By the age of 20 he was the first call guitarist for the Grammy winning Gerald Wilson Orchestra playing alongside such legendary musicians as Harold Land, Snooky Young and Marshal Royal. Having studied guitar privately for many years with Duke Miller (founder of the Studio Guitar Dept. at the University of Southern California) John also sought instruction from several LA guitar greats that include Joe Pass, Jimmy Wyble and Ted Green.
