Eddy Goltz Jazz Navigators

EDDY GOLTZ, guitarist, pianist and vocalist has been performing since the 1960’s, including two decades on the scene in Spain and Portugal with his Jazz Navigators, a group featuring some of the most talented musicians in the Iberian Peninsula. Eddy’s wide vocal and instrumental repertoire ranges from intimate listening to dance music: from Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong to Swing or Tango, Salsa to Samba, B.B. King’s Blues to Ray Charles’ or Stevie Wonder’s Soul and R & B, from classic Bossa Nova to modern Brazilian sounds, European and Latin Jazz. A citizen of Portugal and of the USA, Goltz attended Oberlin Conservatory, Cleveland, where he studied jazz arranging with Wendell Logan and participated in concerts and workshops with Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Pat Metheny, Gary Burton, Roland Hanna, Abraham Laboriel, Leroy Jenkins, Betty Carter and many artists of note. He also studied improvisation with Abraham Laboriel and Barry Harris, classical guitar with Christopher Parkening, Jeff Van and Leo Brauwer, and learned about flamenco and various other ethnic music styles, including Karnatic music, which he studied with Ramnad V. Ragavan of “Shakti,” John McLaughlin’s Indian world-jazz ensemble. Goltz holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1982) and also did post-graduate research on jazz in Asian for an MPhil degree from Sheffield University. Comfortable in a variety of styles and eras of jazz, Eddy Goltz celebrates musical diversity-- exploring many interwoven branches of the world-jazz tradition: including Brazilian, gypsy, Latin American music, and also original repertoire, performed in English, Portuguese, French and Spanish. From solo guitar to big-band jazz, from Afro-Cuban and ethnic music to opera and symphonic orchestra productions-- Eddy has played in the USA, UK, Canada, Turkey, Morocco, Brazil, China, east and southern Africa, the Caribbean, Italy, Spain/Portugal (1986-2005), where he played in major venues like São Luis Theater, Belem Cultural Center, Camoes Theater, Culturgest, Queluz Palace, Aula Magna, and the Vigo and Guimarães Jazz Festivals. He was arranger/conductor for the premiere of "100 Years of George Gershwin" at the Lisbon EXPO, and also in "Hommage to Louis Armstrong" performed for “Capital of European Culture 2002”. Goltz has collaborated with Lisbon’s São Carlos National Theater, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, and the Metropolitan and Gulbenkian orchestras, taught jazz improvisation and classical guitar at the Conservatory of Angra do Heroismo, Azores, at the Estoril Luso-German School in Lisbon, at the Taller de Musicos, Madrid, and in Shanghai, China, currently teaches jazz voice and guitar at the JZ School. Mentioned in 1998 as “a great jazz guitarist” by the American magazine, “Acoustic Guitar,” from 2005-2008 Goltz has been featured regularly at venues in China such as the Royal Meridian Shanghai, Cottonclub, The Blues Room, JZ Club, Park 97, The Portman/Carlton-Ritz Hotel, Vissus, CJW jazz lounges at Westin Bund Center and Xintiandi, the Grand Hyatt, The Hilton, the Hangzhou Radisson Plaza Hotel and JZ "Huang Lou" (formerly Le Jazz Cafe). He played the Hangzhou Grand Theatre with Rolf Becker’s JZ All-Star BigBand, and has performed in Shanghai with numerous artists such as Sugar Mama/ Jackie Sutton, Vastine 'Wink' Pettis, Alice Day, Donald Jackson, Ernesta Dunbar, Sean Higgins, Armando Calade, Oleg Roschin, Ronnie Williams, Anna Jacyszyn, Sandra Kaye, Danny Woody, Luz Mendoza, Miranda Lee, Chang Liao, Kathy Lamar, Simon Wu Yue, Toby Mak, Carlos Vieira, JQ Whitcomb, Andres Peres, Nicholas Bouloukas, Scott Dodds, Yang De Hue, Nicholas McBride, Xiao Zhang, Willow Neilson, Yu Qing Ren, Peter Phillips, Tinho Pereira, Coco Zhou, Peng Fei, JianYi Huang and Carol Chang. Performances abroad include shows with with numerous international artists such as Tito Paris, Nilton Rangel, Rafael Amador, Jacinta, David Murray, Ute lemper, Mario Laginha, Maria João, Woody Mann, Helio Delmiro, Placido Domingo, Tim Sparks, Dulce Pontes, Andre Dequech, Peter Schickle, Laurent Filipe, Angela Hagenbach, Sanford Moore, Mark Holen’s Zambomba, J. D. Steele Singers, Jose Cid, Michael Mossman, Rao Kyao, Bill Goodwin and many others.