Dave Stryker

Dave Stryker (born March 30, 1957) is an American jazz guitarist. He has recorded over twenty-five albums as a leader and has been a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and Kevin Mahogany.

Dave Stryker
Birth nameDavid Michael Stryker
Born (1957-03-30) March 30, 1957
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician
InstrumentsGuitar
LabelsSteepleChase
Websitewww.davestryker.com

Career

Stryker grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. When he was ten years old, he was inspired by the Beatles to start playing guitar. His interest was rock and roll until he heard the albums My Favorite Things by John Coltrane and Beyond the Blue Horizon by George Benson. By seventeen, he was a jazz guitarist in Omaha. In 1978 he moved to Los Angeles where he took lessons from another Omaha native, Billy Rogers, and met organist Jack McDuff. After moving to New York City, he toured with McDuff in 1984-5, then spent ten years with saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.[1]

Stryker formed a band with Steve Slagle and a trio with Jared Gold and Tony Reedus (later McClenty Hunter and Billy Hart).[1] He worked with Kevin Mahogany as sideman, composer, and arranger, appeared with him at Carnegie Hall, and toured with him in Europe and Japan.[2] He has also worked with Eliane Elias, Javon Jackson, and Andy LaVerne.[1]

He teaches jazz guitar at Indiana University and Montclair State University and at the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshop, the Litchfield Jazz Camp, and the Veneto/New School Workshop in Italy.[2]

In 2018 Stryker began teaching jazz guitar online through the ArtistWorks music education website. [3]

Awards and honors
  • Top Ten Guitarists, Down Beat magazine Readers' Poll, 2001
  • Rising Star, Down Beat magazine Critics' Poll

Discography

As leader
  • First Strike (Someday of Mugen Music 1990)
  • Strike Zone (SteepleChase, 1991)
  • Guitar On Top (Ken Music, 1992)
  • Blue Degrees (SteepleChase, 1993)
  • Passage (SteepleChase, 1993)
  • Full Moon (SteepleChase, 1994)
  • Nomad (SteepleChase, 1995)
  • Stardust (SteepleChase, 1995)
  • The Greeting (SteepleChase, 1996)
  • Blue to the Bone (SteepleChase, 1996)
  • Big Room (SteepleChase, 1997)
  • All the Way (SteepleChase, 1998)
  • Shades of Miles (SteepleChase, 2000)
  • Changing Times (SteepleChase, 2001)
  • Blue to the Bone III (SteepleChase, 2002)
  • Shades Beyond (SteepleChase, 2004)
  • Big City (Mel Bay, 2005)
  • The Chaser (Mel Bay, 2006)
  • Strike Up the Band (SteepleChase, 2008)
  • Keystone (SteepleChase, 2010)
  • One for Reedus (SteepleChase, 2010)
  • Blue Strike (SteepleChase, 2011)
  • Blue to the Bone IV (SteepleChase, 2013)
  • Eight Track (Strikezone, 2014)
  • Messin' with Mister T (Strikezone, 2015)
  • Strykin' Ahead (Strikezone, 2017)

With Steve Slagle

  • The Stryker/Slagle Band (Khaeon, 2003)
  • Live at the Jazz Standard (Zoho, 2005)
  • Latest Outlook (Zoho, 2007)
  • The Scene (Zoho, 2008)
  • Keeper (Panorama, 2010)
  • Routes (Strikezone, 2016)

With Trio Mundo

  • Carnaval (Khaeon, 2002)
  • Trio Mundo Rides Again (Zoho, 2004)

As sideman

With Jared Gold

  • Out of Line (Posi-Tone, 2010)
  • Intuition (Posi-Tone, 2012)
  • JG3+3 (Posi-Tone, 2014)
  • Metropolitan Rhythm (Posi-Tone, 2015)
  • Reemergence (Strikezone, 2018)

With Steve Slagle

  • Smoke Signals (Panorama, 1991)
  • Our Sound! (Double-Time, 1995)
  • Steve Slagle Plays Monk (SteepleChase, 1998)
  • New New York (OmniTone, 2000)
  • Evensong (Panorama, 2013)
  • Dedication (Panorama, 2018)

With others

References
  1. Yanow, Scott (2013). The Great Jazz Guitarists. San Francisco: Backbeat. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-61713-023-6.
  2. "Faculty: Dave Stryker". info.music.indiana.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  3. Renowned Jazz Guitarist Dave Stryker Joins ArtistWorks' Extensive List of Online Teaching Artists
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