Joe D Music
Composer/Guitarist
Joe D In Concert
Composer/Guitarist
A special event solo guitar performance of his original songs performed on a 7 steel string, acoustic arched top guitar, played in a jazz/pop style.
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Joe D (born Joseph de Dominicis in Astoria, Queens (NYC) in 1953) was attracted to music at an early age. At six years old, he began studying piano but shortly after switched over to the guitar. His first teacher was his uncle, Larry Colucci, a jazz guitarist who introduced him to the music of Django Rienhardt, Charlie Christian and Charlie Parker. At the ages of 13-18, he played in the Top 40 funk band "The Souls of Sound" performing at dances and private affairs during the latter part of the sixties. At 19 he began private instruction with jazz guitarist Carl Thompson.
At Central Connecticut State University, he majored in classical guitar, studying with Allen Spriestersbach, guitar instructor at the Hart School of Music, and jazz saxaphonist Phil Delibro. He played guitar under Delibro’s direction in the college jazz workshop and while in Hartford also performed with pianist Jasper Jengens, the Valerie Ward Duo, and began the Joe D Trio with Jim Hunter on bass and Tony Allen on drums.
Upon returning to NYC in 1982, he played in AstroLipso, a Trinidadian jazz group which performed at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, under the direction of jazz pianist and arranger David Boothman. Inspired by Joe Pass, he began performing solo guitar concerts of original music on acoustic 7-string guitar. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in General Music from Central Connecticut State University in 1987. He earned a Master of Arts Degree in Music Composition at the City University of New York at Hunter College in 1995, studying with Edward Knight and Melinda Wagner. He was the winner of the 1995 Shirley P. Mintz Award given to the graduating music major “who exemplifies a comprehensive knowledge and love of music.”
In 1998 his fantasia for piano (performed by Mary Bopp) was premiered at Christ and St. Stephens Church in NYC as part of a series presented by the Composers’ Collective /New Works/. He became an artist member of The New York Foundation for the Arts and received a generous grant from the Steven H. and Alida Bril Scheuer Foundation to direct and perform in a series of over 100 solo concerts and ten trio concerts of his original music (Alex Gressel on bass, Vince Cherico on drums) in nursing homes and hospitals throughout NYC.
singer/pianist Gloria Cooper was released in 1999 on Carol MRP. He has appeared at the jazz club La Philharmonica de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain and in 2004 he accompanied NYC jazz singer Maria Pia, along with pianist Jacque Letalon at Guiseppe’s in Anversa degli Abruzzi, Italy. He is currently performing solo guitar concerts of his original music in NYC.
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