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Tony Oreshko Jazz Guitar"Gypsy jazz guitar maestroTony Oreshko from England..." (Acoustic Guitar magazine, USA) has performed at major jazz festivals throughout the British Isles and Europe, and has built a reputation as an outstanding acoustic jazz guitarist. A founding member of the Hot Club influenced bands Shine and Boulevard Django, Tony now fronts his own band playing jazz standards in a style influenced by gypsy jazz genius Django Reinhardt. Latest news below... |
The Tony Oreshko TrioIn August 2005 the Tony Oreshko Trio made its debut, performing at Bude Jazz Festival, Cornwall, UK, featuring Pete Berryman on guitar and Marcus Vergette on double bass. The trio has since been in constant demand for appearances at jazz festivals and concerts throughout the UK. From early 2009 the band has featured rhythm guitarist Glen Hawkins and double bass player Doug Kyle as the new rhythm section for the trio. The band occasionally adds another guitarist and appears as the Tony Oreshko Quartet .In addition to gigs with his own band, Tony can also be heard performing as a freelance guitarist with a number of jazz bands and musicians in the South West of England and beyond. Tony Oreshko SoloIn addition to the Django style playing with his trio, Tony recently made his debut at Keswick Jazz Festival as a solo fingerstyle guitarist. The two and a half hour set comprised jazz standards some original compositions and a wide variety of blues, classical, Brazilian, celtic, gospel and calypso pieces. Follow this link for more details about Tony's solo fingerstyle guitar set |
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'IN CAHOOTS' CD NOW ON EBAY The Tony Oreshko Trio CD recorded live with sax player John Hallam at the 2007 Keswick Jazz Festival has now sold out but can be obtained for a limited time on EBAY MORE ANSWERS TO YOUR GUITAR QUESTIONS Two new pages with answers to jazz guitar questions sent in by readers over the past few months. VIEW THE SITEMAP There are now over 40 pages of resources for jazz and classical guitarists in this website including free music, MP3s, lessons and much more. View the site contents at a glance. ASK A QUESTION! Get answers to your jazz guitar questions! FREE MAILING LIST Get free email notification about the latest gigs, website updates, CDs and any other news. JAZZ GUITAR LESSONS Guitarists - see Tony's free online lessons to learn how to play jazz guitar. New Soloing Lesson Added! GUITARS & AMPLIFIERS Read about Tony's instruments and equipment. CLASSICAL GUITAR Free music, MP3s and articles for classical guitarists. LINK TO THIS WEBSITE How to add a link from your own web pages. |
LATEST NEWSNext Gig for the Tony Oreshko Trio will be at Bude Jazz Festival, Cornwall at the Waterfront Centre, Bude (not at the Globe as previously stated) on Thursday 2nd September 2010, 8pm with guest clarinet and saxophone maestro John Hallam. Tony will probably play a few fingerstyle acoustic guitar solos during this gig. See the Gigs page for all the latest details of live performances by the band.Recent GigsThe Trio's first visit to Pershore Jazz Festival with John Hallam on 14-15th August was highly enjoyable and extrememly well received. Alan Barnes also joined the band for a few numbers as a surprise guest, much to the delight of the audience and the band.The trio played an extremely successful debut gig at Teignmouth Jazz Festival on 14th November 2009. Towards the end of the gig they were joined by the Dutch violinist Tim Kliphuis. According to the festival organisers, the audience thought this session was 'magical', and Tim and the band have been booked to appear at Teignmouth Jazz Festival on 20th November 2010. Veteran sax wizard John Marshall occasionally sits in with the trio for a few numbers. John was a member of Georgie Fame's Blue Flames in the 1960s, toured with Sarah Vaughan and played with the likes of Stevie Wonder and Nat Adderley. Click here for a beautiful version of John playing My Funny Valentine on youtube with Tony Oreshko on guitar. Jazz Festival NewsKeswick Jazz Festival 2010The trio's annual visit to Keswick Jazz Festival in May this year was another great success. The band played fantastic gigs with violinist Tim Kliphuis, saxophone maestro John Hallam and with the 82 year old violin wizard, Bob Clarke. There was also a full length gig with Tony Oreshko playing solo fingerstyle acoustic guitar. More Festivals... The trio are delighted to be playing Lyme Regis, Bude and Teignmouth Jazz Festivals again in 2010, and will be appearing for the first time at Pershore Jazz Festival. For full details of all festival and other bookings go to the Gigs page More Jazz Guitar QuestionsWe've added some new answers to your jazz guitar questions, and if you follow this next link you can find even more jazz guitar questions and answers.Articles about Jazz GuitaristsThere are some articles by Tony Oreshko about jazz guitarist Emily Remler, and the little-known guitarist who could "outswing Django" - Oscar Aleman. Similar pieces about guitarists Barney Kessel, Wes Montgomery and others will be added eventually.Free MP3 SoundclipsCheck out the Recordings page where there are now over twenty different jazz and classical guitar MP3 soundclips to listen to, including some new recordings from Bach's 3rd cello suite. You can also have fun rating the music and finding out what mark everyone else has given.Classical Guitar PagesVisit our classical guitar page with lots of MP3s and free music for grade exams. Pieces include Giuliani (grade 1), Sanz and J.S. Bach (both grade 2), Sor (grade 3), Carcassi (grade 4) Sor (grade 5) and J.S. Bach (grade 6).Links to other free sheet music with accompanying MP3s include: Andante part 1 and part 2 by Carulli, a Valse by Aguado and Giuliani's Andante. There are also classical guitar articles on overcoming left hand difficulties and on building a practice schedule. Free Jazz Guitar LessonsDon't miss our jazz guitar lessons on arpeggios over minor chords, diminished 7th arpeggios, soloing using 7b9 sounds, using arpeggios over a Minor Blues, and using lower and upper auxiliary notes to sound like Django.You can now send us your jazz guitar questions and we'll try and answer them! Read answers to questions about gypsy jazz guitar, using melodic, harmonic and Dorian minor scales, about jazz chord voicings and Django Reinhardt's left hand fingering. Bookmark this PageWe'll continue to add lots of new features and content over the coming weeks. Click to bookmark this page.
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