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Jesse Bradley
is a well-seasoned jazz guitarist who is originally from Boston where he attended Berklee School of Music following two years of college. His experience has been in many and various venues, places and with many musicians including Charlie Mariano, Mick Goodrick and Tom Harrell. He has lived and played in Boston, New York, Europe, San Francisco and Los Angeles where he currently resides, performs and teaches.

With many years of experience playing solo, small group, big band, studio work, singer accompaniment, R&B, jazz, latin and fusion, his present performing is typically usually comprised of standards, bossa novas/sambas and jazz standards all in classic ("straight-ahead") jazz style.

Recent appearances include:  Every Sunday brunch at Holly St. Bar & Grill (Pasadena - solo), The Oyster House (Studio City - solo), Cafe 322 (Sierra Madre - duo with vocalist Cynthia Speer),  Alessio Ristorante (Northridge - solo), 6ix Park Grill (Irvine - trio), Westin Hotel (Westchester - quartet with Cynthia Speer on vocals).




Quotes

"Jesse Bradley is a leading-edge player who pushes the boundaries of what is possible playing jazz on the guitar. He always surprises me with something new that I've never heard any other guitarist play. He has the chord savvy and conception much like Bill Evans and can spin out lines with the best of them. His chord melody arrangements are very sophisticated and hip..."
    Ken Brown
    Colleague and well-known pro guitarist and Master Teacher 35 years, San Francisco
"Jesse Bradley is a tasteful, swinging jazz guitarist, one who has his own fresh chord voicings. While his music will be enjoyed by the fans of the great 50's and 60's jazz guitarists, he has developed his own voice and his music is full of subtle surprises."
    Scott Yano: jazz journalist and author of nine books on jazz.
 

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