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Burr
Johnson is an innovative guitarist
whose powerful technique and artistic diversity have won wide
recognition nationally and internationally among both Jazz
and Rock audiences. His dazzling repertoire is spiced liberally
with flavors of jazz, rock, and blues.
Johnson has toured nationally with
Jazz organist Jack McDuff, and can be
heard with McDuff on radio broadcasts. He has performed with the
Brooklyn Philharmonic, and with legendary artists Ray
Charles, B.B.King, Buddy Guy, Spyro Gyra and Rick Derranger. The Burr Johnson Band,
who has perfomed at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival two years
in a row, is currently touring the United States and Germany. Mr
Johnson recently performed alongside B.B. King
in Montreux, and then
went on to headline the Manchester Jazz festival.
Burr Johnson completed a music video for Terratech in Germany. He has worked
with Lauryn Hill, Pat Metheny, and Jeff Berlin,
records freequently in New York City, and has performed with Spyro
Gyra. He appeard in the major
motion picture, “Beat
Street,”and has done many national television commercials for QVC.
Mr Johnson has developed, with David Lee, a new signature “Burr
Johnson model” Hagstrom
guitar which will be available in the summer of 2009. He has won honors
in several jazz competitions and recently completed a series of performances
in the Caribbean. He holds frequent guitar clinics to demonstrate the Axon
guitar synthesizer that he helped to develop. Johnson has performed annually
since 1996 at the Inter-national NAMM show in Los Angeles, the Music Meese show
in Germany, and has been featured on CNN. Fresh
from performances in Frankfurt, Germany, Johnson is currently promoting his new
compact disc, "What It Is" (Lexicon Records).
For information and materials concerning the Burr Johnson Band, contact Two Rivers
Talent, or Burr Johnson directly.
Contact Burr at:
burrboe@optonline.net
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