Alex Skolnick Trio

Alex Skolnick Trio

@ The Irishtown Bend Taproom. Behind the Market Garden Brewery and the West Side Market - under the giant BEER sign!!  
1849 W. 24th St.  Cleveland, Ohio
(216) 373-0700

The Irishtown Bend Tap Room has several varieties of award winning beers (fresh from the brewery) and wine.  For dinner before or after the concert we'd suggest the Market Garden Brewery in front on W. 25th. You can make reservations for dinner by calling: (216) 621-4000 or at www.marketgardenbrewery.com

Multi Talented Jazz, Rock, & World Music Guitarist leads his Trio Live @ Irishtown Bend Tap Room @ Market Garden Brewery!

As featured with Testament, Alex Skolnick Trio, The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and many more!  Host of the podcast "Moods and Modes".
Featuring:
Alex Skolnick-Guitar
Nathan Peck-Bass
Matt Zebroski-Drums

Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Alex began playing the guitar at age nine, inspired by Kiss and The Beatles. Alex immediately shifted his focus to lead guitar upon hearing guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen, as well as the Ozzy Osbourne band’s late guitarist, Randy Rhoads.

Soon he was absorbing the work of rock and blues greats such as Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, BB King, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Leslie West and others. Later, his influences would include jazz improvisers such as Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery and John Scofield as well as world music artists such as Paco DeLucia, Al Di Meola and Strunz & Farah.

By his teens, Alex had become a student of master virtuoso Joe Satriani. Alex would become one of many Bay Area guitarists who studied under Satriani to achieve recognition (others include 8-string jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter, Larry Lelonde of Primus and Metallica’s Kirk Hammett).

In 1985, at age sixteen, Alex tried out for a local band called Legacy. Shortly after graduating from high school, at age eighteen, he found himself recording his first album with the group, who’d changed their name to Testament. What followed were five albums and countless tours with, among others, Slayer, Megadeth, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and White Zombie. Alex received critical acclaim for his lead guitar work, ranking high in many guitar magazine polls. His 1992 departure from Testament (at age twenty-three) followed seven years with the band.

In 1998, Skolnick relocated to New York City and began devoting most of his energy to straight-ahead jazz, enrolling in the music department of New School University, where he also studied creative writing and philosophy. He made the Dean’s List and graduated with a BFA in jazz performance. His teachers included saxophonist George Garzone, bassist Cecil McBee and pianist Richie Beirach.

Since 2002, Alex has been touring and recording with the Alex Skolnick Trio, a jazz group founded at the New School and known for playing rousing bebop renditions of classic rock and heavy metal tunes. The Trio has performed at New York’s Iridium Jazz Club (where Alex was invited as a special guest of the Les Paul Trio), the Rochester International Jazz Festival, MusikMesse in Frankfurt, Germany, at the National Center for the Arts, Mexico City, and numerous other venues all over the world. Since their debut, AST has been honored with 4 ½ stars by Downbeat, reviewed by Jazziz, The Village Voice and has charted on the JazzWeek radio charts. The trio’s fourth album, Veritas, reached the Top Ten of the iTunes jazz charts at no.7, positioned between Dave Brubeck and Esperanza Spalding, and is released via the esteemed jazz label, Palmetto Records.

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