The Multi-Talented 24-Year-Old Performer, Who Has Studied With Pat Metheny and Played With Music Legends Prince, Ernie
Isley and Craig Morgan, Broke Through Earlier This Year with
Reminiscence, Which
Debuted at #5 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums
Chart
Tyler Reese recorded his first album in his mid-teens,
studied with jazz legend Pat Metheny and has played with everyone from Prince
and Ernie Isley to country great Craig Morgan. Now, still riding the accolades
and buzz of his 2017 breakthrough album Reminiscence – which debuted at #5 on
the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart - the multi-talented 24 year old
guitar virtuoso is set to make his NYC debut as a headliner at the famed Club
Bonafide Wednesday, August 9.
Tyler and his band, featuring bassist Gary Grainger (John
Scofield, Acoustic Alchemy), drummer Toby Fairchild (Victor Wooten) and
keyboardist Chris Fischer (Stevie Wonder, Temptations) are playing sets at 7:30
p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $15, plus at $1.95 fee. Club Bonafide, which is
co-owned by famed Cameroon born jazz bassist Richard Bona (John Legend, George
Benson, Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan), is located at 212 East 52nd Street, New
York, NY 10022
“When the opportunity to book my first ever New York gig
playing my own music came up, I was obviously very excited, but didn’t realize
till later that Club Bonafide is owned by Richard, whom I’m a huge fan of from
his work with so many great artists,” says Tyler, who previously played with
another band at The Friar’s Club in NYC. “Getting to play at Richard’s club my
first time in the city is really cool, and I’m looking forward to our road trip
up from the D.C. area and having fun playing with these guys, engaging the fans
and meeting other great musicians.:
Tyler’s set will feature songs from Reminiscence, which was
co-produced by Tyler and Jeff Silverman (Rick Springfield, Hiroshima, Tim
Weisberg, The Allman Brothers Band). The album’s first radio single, the
uplifting acoustic song “Moving On,” earned a Hollywood Music in Media Award
(HMMA) nomination in the jazz category. Another track, the scorched earth
electric guitar and brass fired “2 Funk,” received an HMMA nod in the
production category. Tyler and the band will also mix in favorite classic jazz
fusion numbers like Tony Williams’ “Proto-Cosmos,” written by Alan Pasqua.
Up until a recent move back to his hometown of
Fredericksburg, VA, Tyler was a busy, first call Nashville based session player
and touring guitarist who performed over 250 shows per year. During this
period, he opened for Scotty McCreery, Joel Crouse, Bo Bice, Martin Sexton, Ron
Holloway and Linwood Taylor while participating in numerous showcase events and
festivals, including The Listening Room, Celebrate Virginia, Fontanel, Loretta
Lynn’s Ranch, the IEBA, Wild Horse, 5th & Porter, Tin Pan South and the
Country Music Hall of Fame.
While studying classical piano, his first instrument, from
the age of 3 to 18, Tyler received his first guitar, a Squier Stratocaster, at
10 and became a serious student of guitar at 13. He released his first full
length CD Risus21, an exploration of progressive rock with dark, heavy riffs
and high energy guitar, in 2010 at the age of 15. His discography also includes
Because I Can (2011), a series of contemporary arrangements of traditional jazz
standards with aspects of funk, rock and blues; and Life in 20, which he
co-wrote with Prince backup singer Elisa Fiorillo-Dease and was produced by
Silverman.
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