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LaRue Nickelson

About Me

When LaRue Nickelson was 10 years old he started to play guitar and had an instant affinity for making noise. As he got older, LaRue decided he would like to make noise with other people. Now, LaRue Nickelson is a jazz guitarist and composer from the Tampa Bay area. He has had a varied and diverse music career with many different groups. LaRue has played in New York, Italy, South Africa, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Montreux, and California as well as staying very busy doing festivals and clubs in the Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Orlando, and Sarasota, Florida areas. LaRue has performed with Rich Perry, Peter Erskine, Jeff Berlin, Ira Sullivan, Ingrid Jensen, Don Braden, Rufus Reid, Sheila Jordan, Hank Marr, David Leibman, Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge, Chick Corea, Conrad Herwig, Robbie Ameen, Giovanni Hildalgo, Gary Versace, Walt Weiskopf, Frank Foster, Mike Maineri, Adam Nusbaum, Steve Davis, Marcos Cavalcante, Patrick Bettison, Eric Darius, and Mike MacArthur. He has also recorded with Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge, The Michael Ross Quartet, Greenwich Blue, Shawn Ashby, Kristen Lomholt, Mark Gould, and Cory Christiansen. As well as recording and performing, LaRue is also a composer with almost 40 compositions to his credit, many of which have appeared on recordings by Greenwich Blue, The Michael Ross Quartet, and his own projects that he is currently working on. He also has written for two Mel Bay anthologies. He is the jazz guitar instructor at the University of South Florida and currently resides in Tampa, FL with his beautiful wife, Joy, and his slightly less attractive cat, Ornette.

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Member Since: 24/10/2006
Band Website: www.laruenickelson.com
Band Members: LaRue Nickelson-Guitars and such. Anyone else who will stick around and make some noise.
Sounds Like: dark water

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Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Another Review

Wow another review--- I must be a superstar!! LaRue Nickelson Dark Water By lovelyn " January 7, 2009 LaRue Nickelsons first solo CD, Dark Water, has n...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:22:00 GMT

New CD Review

It has come to my attention (from my good friend Kirk Adams) that my cd Dark Water has finally been reviewed. Here it is for your reading pleasure.On Dark Water, LaRue Nickelson  the jazz guitar inst...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:42:00 GMT