David Newsam, jazz guitar at Seacoast Jazz Live

Seacoast Jazz Live is excited to host David Newsam in a 45-minute LIVE solo guitar concert on July 10th. Newsam's repertoire will include jazz standards from the Great American Songbook by composers including Jerome Kern, Henry Mancini, as well as Brazilian classics from Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luis Bonfa.

David has had an exceptional career in music and plays solo and in groups throughout New England. He has performed with some of the best musicians in the world—among them guitarists Jim Hall, Bucky Pizzarelli and Howard Alden, pianists Dave McKenna and James Williams, drummers Ed Shaugnessy, Louis Bellson, Bob Moses and Alan Dawson, and jazz legends Clark Terry, Phil Wilson, Joe Williams and Milt Jackson. David also has extensive theater experience including performances with Jack Jones, Mitzi Gaynor, Dianne Carroll, The Fifth Dimension, The Shirrelles, and Carol Channing....

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Seacoast Jazz Live is excited to host David Newsam in a 45-minute LIVE solo guitar concert on July 10th. Newsam's repertoire will include jazz standards from the Great American Songbook by composers including Jerome Kern, Henry Mancini, as well as Brazilian classics from Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luis Bonfa.

David has had an exceptional career in music and plays solo and in groups throughout New England. He has performed with some of the best musicians in the world—among them guitarists Jim Hall, Bucky Pizzarelli and Howard Alden, pianists Dave McKenna and James Williams, drummers Ed Shaugnessy, Louis Bellson, Bob Moses and Alan Dawson, and jazz legends Clark Terry, Phil Wilson, Joe Williams and Milt Jackson. David also has extensive theater experience including performances with Jack Jones, Mitzi Gaynor, Dianne Carroll, The Fifth Dimension, The Shirrelles, and Carol Channing.

David is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and is Assistant Professor in the guitar department at Berklee where he has taught since 1989. He also teaches at the University of New Hampshire, where he created the jazz guitar program and directs the Jazz Guitar Ensemble.

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