Hope you had a great Holiday time and are keeping warm during our Winter freeze-out! We have been doing so many private events throughout the holiday season into January and are ready now to book our shows for the group and showcase our new CD.

Really looking so forward to seeing you soon at one of our shows. Thanks to all who contacted Jazz Guitar asking about our performance dates. We are back with some wonderful venues and events!

http://louvolpejazz.com/

(Lou and the band at Trumpet's Jazz Club)

Here is our itinerary for the rest of January into February so far:

*****Lou is featured on the cover

of the February issue of JUST JAZZ GUITAR magazine

with a review of "Hear and Now" and a feature article! He will also contribute his experiences in the studio and on the road in future issues.

The solo Jazz Guitar continues for Jazz Brunch at the Waterside in North Bergen, NJ every Sunday from 12 noon to 3 PM. Such a fine restaurant with the best staff around.

Check back here soon for our new schedule of performances of the "Lou Volpe on Broadway" show at Charley O's in the heart of Times Square! Special thanks to our man, Joe Franklin (WBBR and Sirius/ XM).

Wednesday January 26th
8 to 9 PM
The Shrine
2271 Adam Clayton Blvd (between 133 & 134 streets)
New York, NY
212 690 7807

Lou does the solo jazz guitar show for one set at this great music venue in Harlem! Thanks to all who responded "will attend" to our Facebook post. (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192479177431250&index=1)

Saturday January 29th
7 PM
The Liberty House Restaurant
76 Audrey Zapp Drive, Jersey City, 07305
(201) 395-0300

Duo jazz tonight at this great restaurant with such a view of downtown Manhattan!

Sunday January 30th
12 to 3 PM
The Waterside
7800 B River Road
North Bergen, NJ, 07047
201 867 0700
Jazz Brunch

A great brunch plus solo jazz guitar are featured at the beautifully redesigned Waterside.

***SPECIAL EVENT***

Friday February 4th
WVOX Radio ~ 1460 AM
8 to 9 PM
Show: "Metal Mayhem"
Host: Matt O'Shaughnessy

WVOX'S "METAL MAYHEM" SHOW PRESENTS GUITARIST EXTRAORDINAIRE LOU VOLPE ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH IN ONE-OF-A-KIND RADIO SHOW!

HOST MATT O'SHAUGHNESSY CHATS WITH WITH HIGHLY CELEBRATED AND EXCEPTIONAL GUITARIST, LOU VOLPE, IN WHAT LISTENERS CAN EXPECT TO BE AN AWESOME AND UNIQUE RADIO EXPERIENCE ON WVOX!

VOLPE IS ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED AND ADMIRED ARTISTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND HAS TOURED THE US...EUROPE...AFRICA AND JAPAN AMONG OTHER TOUR STOPS.

MATT O'SHAUGHNESSY SAY'S, ''THIS IS DEFINITELY A FIRST FOR WVOX.. AND YES... JAZZ AND HARD ROCK DO AND WILL MESH NICELY ON THE AIR LIVE WHEN LOU DOES HIS MAGIC ON THE FRETBOARD!"

TUNE IN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH AT 8PM AS MATT O'SHAUGHNESSY WELCOMES LEGENDARY GUITAR VIRTUOSO - LOU VOLPE - FOR A NIGHT OF GUITAR SHREDDING AND MAGIC! 1460 AM AND WORLDWIDE ON WVOX.COM!

Saturday February 5th
7:30 PM
The Creole Restaurant and Supper Club
2167 Third Avenue at 118th Street
New York, NY, 10035
212 876 8838

The trio plus Chip Shelton on sax and flute jazz it up at this great music room and restaurant in Harlem tonight! Some special guests will be joining the band also.

Sunday February 6th
12 to 3 PM
The Waterside
7800 B River Road
North Bergen, NJ, 07047
201 867 0700
Jazz Brunch

A great brunch plus solo jazz guitar are featured at the beautifully redesigned Waterside.

Saturday February 12th
8 PM
WinnaVegas Casino
Sloan, Iowa

On the road again! The Lou Volpe Group does a set and the backs up the Supremes for a high energy show at this great casino in Middle America near Sioux City.

Wednesday February 16th
7 to 9 PM
Cholo's

4 Lawton Street (next to library)

New Rochelle, NY

914-235-0094

Cholo's, a fantastic Peruvian restaurant right in New Rochelle is featuring two sets of Jazz Guitar tonight! Hope you can join us and check out this fine place for music and a taste of South America.

Saturday February 19th

9:30 PM

Showman's

375 W 125th St # 1,

New York, NY 10027-4813

(212) 864-8941 ‎

The Lou Volpe group is back by popular demand! 3 sets tonight (9:30, 11:30 and 1:30) at the legendary home of the greatest jazz musicians. Come and enjoy music from our new CD, "Hear and Now" and experience the warm and friendly atmosphere of this wonderful music tradition in Harlem. Chip Shelton will be sitting in on sax along with other very special guests!

Sunday February 20th
12 to 3 PM
The Waterside
7800 B River Road
North Bergen, NJ, 07047
201 867 0700
Jazz Brunch

A great brunch plus solo jazz guitar are featured at the beautifully redesigned Waterside.

***SPECIAL EVENT***
Saturday February 26th
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Central Park West
(212) 874-5210
"New York Celebrates George Harrison"

Lou Has been chosen to perform solo at this wonderful tribute to George Harrison along with his old boss, Roberta Flack and others! A truly special night!

Sunday February 27th
12 to 3 PM
The Waterside
7800 B River Road
North Bergen, NJ, 07047
201 867 0700
Jazz Brunch

A great brunch plus solo jazz guitar are featured at the beautifully redesigned Waterside.

Sunday February 27th
4:30 to 6:30 PM

The Starving Artist

249 City Island Avenue

City Island (the Bronx), NY
718.885.3779

Lou's "Starving Artist Jazztet" plays 2 sets this afternoon at the best place in town for music and art.

Saturday March 5th
7:30 PM
The Creole Restaurant and Supper Club
2167 Third Avenue at 118th Street
New York, NY, 10035
212 876 8838

The trio plus some very special guest artists jazz it up tonight at this great music room and restaurant in Harlem!

Sunday March 6th

12 to 3 PM
The Waterside
7800 B River Road
North Bergen, NJ, 07047
reservations: 201 861 0700
Jazz Brunch

Solo jazz guitar at the beautiful Waterside right across the Hudson River from the 79th Street Boat Basin with a nice view of the New York skyline!

Sunday March 6th
5 to 9 PM
Mambo Italiano
866 Morris Park Avenue, New York, NY 10462
(718) 597-6262 ‎

Lou's first appearance at this new gorgeous restaurant! Great food and music! Hope you can join us for Jazz Guitar's premier performance at a new music room in the Bronx.

Saturday March 12th
The Pointe
2 Chapel Avenue Jersey City, NJ 07305
(201) 985-9854

Lou's solo guitar show is featured at this lovely dining spot off the water overlooking the Statue of Liberty. Hope you can join us for great food and music!

Check http://louvolpejazz.com/ for any additional shows scheduled as we are adding more dates very soon!

Thanks for reading our newsletter and stay feeling good and feeling warm throughout this fantastic Winter season!

See you soon,

Wishing you the very best,

Lou Volpe Jazz Guitar

http://louvolpejazz.com/

Jazz Guitar News

http://louvolpejazz.com/

Hope all is well with you and looking forward to seeing you soon! Thanks to all who jammed the Starving Artist Cafe last Sunday for the CD release party with the trio there! We love it when that happens.

Our Friday night run at Charley O's "Jazz Room" is going really well and giving us an opportunity to perform at other great venues around town (TBA)! There are wonderful guest artists sitting in every week. The new CD, "HEAR and NOW" has just been approved for airplay on the Sirius/XM Satellite Jazz stations by the program director (who happens to be David Ruffin's, of the Temptations, nephew) and more stations will follow so we are very happy! The CD will soon be available on itunes and CD Baby.

There will be features on Lou Volpe Jazz Guitar in Hot House Jazz Magazine, Bronxnet TV (2 shows will air within the next few weeks!), The Bronx Times Reporter (last week actually) and Just Jazz Guitar Magazine very soon.

LV at the Starving Artist Cafe

Here is our performance schedule for this weekend:

Thursday October 21st
6 to 9 PM
Pronto Pizza & Pasta
134 North Avenue
New Rochelle, New York 10801
(914) 576-2200

Solo jazz guitar tonight at this great dining room in New Rochelle.

**Friday, October 22nd**
8:30 and 10:30 PM
Charley O’s - The “Jazz Room” downstairs
1611 Broadway (49th Street)
New York, NY 10019
212 246-1960 for reservations

We are back every Friday for 2 sets! Jazz saxophonist Bill Easley and vocalist extraordinaire Robin Filippone will be our special guest artists this Friday. A special performance for sure. Hope to see you there! Reservations are recommended.


Saturday October 23rd
8 PM
The Alor Cafe
2110 Richmond Rd
Staten Island, NY 10306
(718) 351-1101

The Guitar Club with Gene Cornish and company rock the house tonight. Reservations are recommended.

Sunday October 24th
Noon to 3 PM
The Waterside
7800 B River Road
North Bergen, NJ 07047
reservations: 201 861 0700
Jazz Brunch

Solo jazz at the beautiful Waterside right across the Hudson from the 79th Street Boat Basin.

Thanks for reading our newsletter and hope to see you at one of our gigs soon!

Wishing you All the very best ,

Lou Volpe Jazz Guitar

http://louvolpejazz.com/

Performance and Studio Recording

Our final guitar session for the new recording had to be postponed due to schedule conflicts. So near yet so far. You can check here for a full report of the sessions in June. We had such fun in the studio "making believe" that a huge audience was behind the glass in the control room. The album is tentatively titled "Hear And Now". It may change several times before the release date! We will keep you posted.

Thanks for checking in.

Wishing you the best,

Lou Volpe

Jazz Guitar

The Studio and the Gigs!

Studio "V": 

So much going on in my project studio; My co-production album with singer/guitarist Jono is almost completed after a couple weeks of bass and drums tracking along with some guitar solo over dubs. There is a wonderful feeling of accomplishment along with a sense of mental and physical exhaustion that comes with being the engineer, producer, arranger, bassist and guitarist on this collection of Jono's tunes. It's a little like the feeling I had when I ran the NYC Marathon a few years ago! This week is vocals and acoustic guitar tracks and then, finally the mixing followed by the mastering sessions. The sound of the recordings is like Steely Dan meeting Pat Metheny and Miles with Michael Franks or Eric Clapton on vocals. (That would be a pretty cool group to see!) My next post should give you a completion date for the project and the reaction of our audiences to hearing the songs done live at our next few shows.

No rest for the weary! "Acoustic Meditations": That's the name of my solo acoustic guitar album. I just finished the demo recordings of all the tunes and will be starting to do the actual master recordings sometime next week here at Studio "V".

The jazz quartet project: I am just about done arranging and writing for my next jazz CD. We expect to start our recording sessions by mid-June with Onaje Allen Gumbs on piano, Buddy Williams on drums and the great Bob Cranshaw on bass. I am so looking forward to that one.

The live jazz scene: Thanks to all who came out to see us at the Cafe Mozart gig last Saturday. You definitely made my night. My next solo date there is June 12th. (Check the itinerary at www.louvolpegroup.com for updates.) The end of June will bring a new venture of mine called the "Lou Volpe Summer Jazz Series" which will be a weekly jazz series featuring different artists playing along with the trio/quartet probably at the Starving Artist Cafe and Gallerie in City Island .... more on that in the next post. 

Well thanks so much for reading this update of our events here at the Lou Volpe Group and I hope to see you at my next solo gig this Sunday at Frank's Waterside (www.frankswaterside.com).

All the best to you,

Lou Volpe Jazz Guitar

www.myspace.com/louvolpejazz

Performance and Studio Recording

A New Music Venue for me: I played a wonderful music room for the first time last Saturday in Ramsey, NJ called Apolo's Restaurant. When I posted the date on my website only a couple of days before the gig, I did not expect many of my fans to attend due to the short notice but was pleasantly surprised to find a full house with a lot of my friends/fans there to hear the music! The folks who just heard me for the first time were so warm to me and showed their appreciation with applause and purchases of my CDs. Thanks so much to all who came to Apolo's.

Studio Update: So much happening on the studio front! I am still recording tracks for my "Acoustic Meditations" album using a beautiful sounding Martin D35 guitar. The CD will feature all original pieces designed to relax, excite and make the listener smile! I am still composing as we are recording.

I am also arranging and putting together music for a straight ahead jazz CD of original and a few standard tunes that have been getting great reactions from the audiences at my live gigs. The musicians will include my wonderful friends Onaje Allen Gumbs on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass and my man Buddy Williams on drums. These guys have played with the best musician's on the planet and I am honored to have them with me on this project. We have a history of working together so many times backing other artists and now I have the joy of recording my music with them. We are scheduled to go into the studio in mid June. Will keep you posted on that project for sure.

And just in case I did have any free time: My dear friend Jono Frola and I are just finishing up a contemporary jazz album of mostly original tunes that Jaziz Magazine is very interested in checking out. We have the final tracking sessions scheduled in the next couple of weeks.

So that's about it for now. Thanks for reading this post and I hope to see you at my solo gig this Friday (April 17th) at Cafe Mozart, www.cafemozart.com in Mamaroneck, NY.

All the Best to you,

Lou Volpe Jazz Guitar

www.louvolpegroup.com

Sunday and Zen

We had a great time at the Zen Den in Teaneck, New Jersey last night and I just wanted to thank everyone for coming to the show and making it a really special performance. I played duo for two sets Sunday night with Jono on vocals and rhythm guitar. The thing that made it such a pleasure was the audience. I can feel it when the listeners are "with" us and it some how makes the music richer or just better. It definitely helps me to play better when I feel the energy of people enjoying the ride.

Hope to see you at my next Lou Volpe Group gig next Sunday afternoon at the Starving Artist in City Island, NY. I'll be with the trio playing a whole different set of music. Check www.louvolpegroup.com for time and location.

Thanks for reading this. Will keep you posted on the new CD recording sessions in my next blog. Until then,

all the best to you,

Lou