Nick Russo
Gig Salad member Nick Russo is an accomplished guitarist, appearing in the new Sam Mendes film “Away We Go” and playing on the King George soundtrack. He has been a sideman with Jimmy McGriff, Teddy Charles, Sonny Dallas, Victor Jones, Vince Giordano & The Night Hawks, Miles Griffith, David Pleasant, and others.
His new self-produced album “Ro” is an all original eclectic mix of straight-ahead, Indian Raga and modern jazz featuring “Nick Russo + 11″ with Mark Turner, Miles Griffith, Ari Hoenig, Pandit Samir Chatterjee, Art Hirahara, Willard Dyson, David Pleasant & the rest of Nick Russo +11. The album is receiving great reviews in All About Jazz, Jazz Improv magazine, Hot House, ejazz news, Boston Gazette, Jazz Times, Vintage Guitar, Cadence, Jazz-iz and other publications, and is achieving international radio play in Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Turkey, Canada, Chicago, Japan and New York.
Nick Russo has conducted lectures on banjo at Manhattanville College, has taught jazz performance classes at Aaron Copland School, college classes on guitar at Essex College and has been a jazz clinician at Queens College for 9 years conducting jazz workshops via the Jazz Project. Professor Russo is also on staff at Queens College, Great Neck Music Conservatory and an adjunct music professor at Essex College.
Nick is also the author of 2 books: “Metallica, Legendary Licks” Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 as well as the editor of the GRP arpeggio book and exercise book (published by Cherry Lane/Hal Leonard). His Off Broadway shows include A Jew Grows in Brooklyn, Take Me Along (Irish Rep) and The Big Apple Circus.
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