Bruce Saunders
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Bruce Saunders is a professor in the Guitar Department at Berklee College of Music. With New York City as his base since 1988, he has toured Europe, South America, Australia, Japan, and the United States as a band leader and as a sideman. He has recorded with musicians such as Jack DeJohnette, Peter Erskine, Dave Holland, Kenny Werner, Bill Stewart, Michael Cain, Glen Velez, Harvie Swartz, David Berkman, Tony Scherr, Mark Murphy, Ben Monder, Steve Cardenas, and many others. He has released four albums as a leader: Fragment, Likely Story, Jazz Hymns, and Forget Everything.
Saunders has taught at Berklee since 1992. He has also taught at New York University and various clinics worldwide, including the International Jazz Seminar in Xalapa, Mexico, numerous times in Colombia, South America, and at the Maine Jazz Camp. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Classical Guitar and Theory from Florida State University, and a Master of Music in Jazz Performance from the University of North Texas, where he studied with Jack Petersen and Tom Johnson. He is the author of Pentatonics, Modern Blues, and Melodic Improvisation.
- Appeared on recordings with Jack DeJohnette, Peter Erskine, Ben Monder, Dave Holland, Michael Cain, Bill Stewart, Kenny Werner, and many others
- Author of Pentatonics, Modern Blues, and Melodic Improvisation
- Released four albums as a leader: Fragment, Likely Story, Jazz Hymns, and Forget Everything