The Great Guitar Concert

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The Jazz Club of Sarasota presents renowned jazz guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli, Nate Najar, and Graham Dechter, Friday, March 30, 7:30 p.m., at the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center 709 North Tamiami Trail, in Sarasota. Tickets are $25 if purchased before March 15; $20 for Jazz Club members; $30 at the door. For information and tickets, call 941-366-1552. Accompanying the guitar trio will be Chuck Redd on drums and vibes, and Nicki Parrott on vocal and bass.

Bucky Pizzarelli is a living legend. His 60-plus years as a fixture on the jazz scene have garnered the guitarist and banjo player some the highest praise in the industry. He began his professional career in 1943 at 17 playing in the Vaughn Monroe dance band. In 1952 he joined NBC as a staff musician playing for many years in the Doc Severinsen Band on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He also toured and recorded with Benny Goodman until his death in 1986 and performed at both the Regan and Clinton White House. Over the last half century, Pizzarelli has recorded, collaborated and performed with nearly every jazz musician of note.As a guitarist, his sensitive style and repertoire grows more spectacular every year. Pizzarelli is also known as one of the first jazz guitarists to master the seven-string guitar, a technique he learned from jazz guitarist George Van Eps.

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