JAZZ GUITAR SPOTLIGHT – Neil Davis & Steve Peplin

bar centro introduces; JAZZ GUITAR SPOTLIGHT beginning this month and running every second Thursday of the month through the end of the year.  Each evening will feature two jazz guitarists.

This month’s performance will begin with Steve Peplin.  Steve Peplin has been deeply involved in the Milwaukee creative music scene for over 20 years as a guitarist, composer, professor (Lawrence University and MATC) and arranger. Steve is a member of several important Milwaukee based groups including Strangelander, the David Wake Five, Choirfight, Hush Ensemble, Davis / Peplin Duo, Carlos Adames Trio, the Amanda Huff Quartet, and meny others.  Steve has played with notable jazz musicians and orchestras such as Dr. Art Davis, Doc Severinsen, Howard Levy, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, De La Buena, The Static Chicken, Dierdre Fellner and more.

Each month Neil Davis will perform second.  Neil Davis, is a jazz guitarist from Milwaukee, the Jazz Guitar teacher at Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra’s jazz studies program and adjunct professor of guitar at UW-Oshkosh.  He also helped found Milwaukee Jazz Vision, a jazz advocacy group.  Neil lives with his wife and family on Milwaukee’s west side where he has a busy teaching studio called Neil Davis Guitar.