Jay Griggs

I started playing guitar at 10. At 16 I began to work on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. After high school I attended Southeastern Louisiana University former alma mata of jazz piano legend Bill Evans. My band Ashbrook paid my way through college and I ended up with a degree in classical guitar. After graduating I moved in with jazz guitarists Steve Masakowski and Emily Rehmler. In that house we ate, slept and breathed guitar 24 hours a day 7 days a week. I worked as the house guitarist at the Saenger theatre in New Orleans and worked at Sea Saint Studios for Allan Tousaint and Wardell Quezergue through out the 1980s. I was envolved in local jazz scene with my own band Electrolife featuring John Vidacavich and Steve Masakowski and the R n B scene with Luther Kent and Trick Bag. I toured with rock acts like the Momma's and Poppa's and played with the New Orleans Symphony and Bo Diddley and many points between. In the 90's I began to work as a staff writer and musician for software company Rocket Network where I had the opportunity to record with Thomas Dolby, Cold Cut, Herbie Hancock, Sinade Occonor to name a few. We did the first on line collaborations ever done and ended up recording a live version of Bob Morley's Me Belly Full on the british television show Beyond 2000. This was also an internet first. Lately I've worked for the New York Jazz Foundation finding jobs for New Orleans Musicians who were hurt by hurricane Katrina. In the last year I created a studio project for my old friend Wardell Quezergue and we've now done 2 cd's of matereal also funded by the New York Jazz Foundation and Agnis Varis our patron saint of hurricane survivors. Herman Ernest the great New Orleans drummer and my good friend and I have started a publishing company called ErneGri Productions and are working in my Pro Tools studio creating music for the new decade. This is a quick overview of some of my “career” Time flies when you are having fun. Jay Griggs---------I'd like to thank my friends at DR strings for comping me enough strings to keep all my guitars and basses fresh for the next few months. This is the first time I've changed string brands in a very long time and they are great!!-------

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