Jake Hertzog Trio Comes To The Iridium 9/11
By: Gabrielle Sierra Sep. 08, 2010
Jake Hertzog Trio comes to the Iridium Saturday September 11th Midnight Set
Jake Hertzog - guitar
Harvie S- bass
Victor Jones - drums
Iridium Jazz Club 51st and Broadway
http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/
Guitar Player Magazine is calling him "...the blazing wunderkind." The Boston Phoenix has declared him "...the WOW! factor." Award-winning jazz guitarist and composer, Jake Hertzog, is making it big in New York City. Jake's second studio album,Patterns (Buckyball, 2010), is Guitar Player Magazine's Editor's Pick. As a monthly contributor to Guitar Player's ‘Lessons' section under the alias Hey Jazz Guy, Jake has been coined as the Jazz ambassador to the non-jazz world.
Jake's debut album, Chromatosphere (That's Out Music, 2009), brought him critical acclaim including a five page interview in Guitar Player Magazine (June 2009)highlighting his unique technique and approach to modern jazz guitar. Both albums, recorded and produced by Grammy Award-winner, Joshua Paul Thompson.
Furthermore, he served as musical director and lead guitarist for Nickelodeon's The Naked Brothers Band stars, Nat and Alex Wolff. They have concluded two national tours and have performed on national television shows including Good Morning America, The View, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, The Today Show and many others.
Past achievements include winning the Grand Prize in 2006 for the Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition in Switzerland. In the festivals 44-year history, he holds title at 20 years old as the youngest ever prize winner. He was invited back in 2007 to showcase his original music in the Montreux Jazz Festival. Jake is an Alum of the prestigious Berklee College of Music and recipient of several performance scholarships.
Echoes of Metheny, Stern, and Breau (among others) surface in Hertzog's playing, but his dazzlingly adventurous approach puts him in a jazz league all his own.
- Art Thompson, Guitar Player Magazine
Patterns is GP Mag's Editor's Pick, June 2010!! <http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/jake-hertzog-patterns/June-2010/114893>
"It's almost safe to say that this sounds like nothing you've heard before. This is the guitar record you play when you absolutely, positively need to have your mind melted."
- Chris Spector, Midwest Records
"Tech heads and six-string fans need to hear guitarist Jake Hertzog..."
- Doug Simpson, CampusCircle.com
"There is something here that hasn't been heard before! Hertzog plays confident, even blistering solos... Certainly a must-buy for fans of great fusion and jazz guitar!"
- StEve Roberts, ZNR Records
"Pumping & full of life-giving energy... I'm once again highly impressed - and knowing I have an album my ears will listen to over & over & over again, as will yours."
- Rotcod Zzaj, ImproviJazzNation
"Jake Hertzog is a risk-taker and a mind-blowing guitarist. There is nothing else like it."
- Susan Frances, JazzReview.Com
"Sure to perk up the ears of all guitar fans."
- MWE3.com [Music Web Express 3000]
"Very impressive for such a young man!"
- John McLaughin
"Hertzog keeps listeners constantly on their toes, zigging when you might expect him to zag, and blazing through unorthodox intervallic maneuvers with an ease that would likely give players twice his age pause."
- Barry Cleveland, Guitar Player Magazine
"Hertzog is the real deal on many levels...one of the most original I have heard"
- Ralph A. Miriello, Jazz.com
"Advanced... moving... elegant..."
- Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times
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