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About Me

A little bit about Luke Brouillette:

Born in Natchitoches, LA (pronounced "NAK-uh-tush") in 1957, I've always been interested in music.
I graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 1980 and hung around Boston to get involved with the original music scene there.
I returned to Natchitoches in '93 and am currently the guitar instructor at Northwestern State University as well as working for CP-TEL, a local communications company.
As for what I'm up to at this moment, my current musical focus is on straight ahead american style jazz guitar and for the past year I've been doing a lot of playing at The Ducournau in downtown Natchitoches with area jazz musicians.
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Music:

Member Since: 9/28/2006
Band Website: http://www.lukejazz.com
Influences: (In no particular order) orchestral music, cello music, Yes, ZZ Top, The Doobie Brothers, Robin Trower, Pat Travers, Joe Pass, Herb Ellis, Return To Forever - of course the "holy trinity of jazz guitar" Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, and Wes Montgomery -, John McGlaughlin, Allan Holdsworth, Al DiMeola, Birelli LaGrene, my teachers at Berklee Jim Kelly, Charles Chapman, and Larry Baione, my friends Doyle Primm and Randy Price who let me learn from them at 17, Doug Courtney who taught me my first blues rock licks, Guy Nesom who introduced me to jazz guitar when I was 19 and lastly my brother Bruce who taught me how to play bar chords when I was 12!
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

New Day Studio

I set up a myspace for my studio projects in case in anyone wants to check out what is going on with that.  So far I've been able to make recordings with Joe Williams, Steve Wells, Miki Finn, Paul For...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:42:00 GMT

Days Gone By

Went by the Meat Pie Festival last weekend and noticed a friend from days gone by who is widely known as "Applejack" playing with Becky Birdwell and Roadhouse.  He loves to recall how when I was ...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:14:00 GMT

Newsletter Link

I finally got my newsletter automated - so if you'd like to get updates on when and where I'm playing, just click here.
Posted by on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:15:00 GMT

What's new

Thanks to everyone who came by for the recital on Feb. 26th. It was a BLAST. Coming up next is the Natchitoches Jazz/R&B Festival. I should be playing about 2:30 on the Cane River Stage with the u...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:34:00 GMT

Recital

The big recital day is coming up and I'm pretty anxious about how it will turn out. Please join me Monday, February 26, at 7:30 in Magale Recital Hall when my friends Joe Williams, Sammy Nix, Galindo ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:49:00 GMT

New Pics Added

Alright - by special request I've added some new and embarrasing photos to my pics - check 'em out and have a good chuckle on me.
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:49:00 GMT

New recordings added 1/2/2007

I've added some new smooth jazz project ideas to the site player from the New Day Recording Studio for everyone to check out. "Happy Jazz 2.4", "New Year Steve" and "Claire's Theme". Hope you enjoy.
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:15:00 GMT

Ringtones

Tired of the same old ringtones?  Drop by my website and download some original music ringtones from lukejazz.com!
Posted by on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:52:00 GMT

snocap store added 12/14/06

I'm trying out the Snocap store to see if I can sell some music. I've also got it on my website on the sounds page.
Posted by on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:05:00 GMT

New recording added at lukejazz.com 11/22/2006

I've just added a new recording from my home project studio called "Brick Street Boogie" to my regular website lukejazz.com. It's and uptempo straight ahead jazz thing. Check it out!
Posted by on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:33:00 GMT