Wayne Krantz
American guitarist

Wayne Krantz

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American guitarist
Gender:
Male
Places:
United States of America
Is:
Jazz musicianMusicianGuitaristJazz guitarist
Work field:
Music
Birth:
26 July 1956(Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, USA)
Star sign:
Leo
Genres:
Jazz fusion
Instruments:
Guitar
Education:
Berklee College of Music
Boston, Suffolk County, USA
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Wayne Krantz is an American guitarist and composer. He has performed and recorded with Steely Dan, Michael Brecker, Donald Fagen, Billy Cobham, Chris Potter, David Binney and Carla Bley. Since the early 1990s has focused primarily on his solo career, mostly as the leader of a trio.

Career

A native of Corvallis, Oregon, Krantz was inspired to play guitar when he was fourteen after hearing the Beatles. Although he played in country and rock bands, he heard jazz through his father's album collection. He was in a band that included Bill Frisell and went on tour with Carla Bley. He released in debut solo album Signals in 1991. He formed a trio with Lincoln Goines and Zach Danziger, then with Tim Lefebvre and Keith Carlock. He has also worked with Billy Cobham, Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, and Steely Dan.

Krantz signed with record label Abstract Logix to release his first studio record in over fifteen years. Krantz Carlock Lefebvre (2009) was recorded in a trio with Lefebvre and Carlock. In 2012, Krantz released Howie 61 (a reference to Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited), which includes John Patitucci, Charley Drayton, Tal Wilkenfeld, Vinnie Colaiuta, Anton Fig, Jeremy Stacey, Paul Stacey, Pino Palladino, Gabriela Anders, Kenny Wollesen, Nate Wood, Henry Hey, and Owen Biddle.

Discography

As leader

  • Signals (Enja, 1990)
  • Long to Be Loose (Enja, 1993)
  • 2 Drink Minimum (Enja, 1995)
  • Separate Cages with Leni Stern (Alchemy, 1996)
  • Greenwich Mean (self released, 1999)
  • Your Basic Live (self released, 2002)
  • Your Basic Live '06 (self released, 2007)
  • Krantz Carlock Lefebvre (Abstract Logix, 2009)
  • Howie 61 (Abstract Logix, 2012)
  • Good Piranha / Bad Piranha (Abstract Logix, 2014)

As sideman

With Gabriela Anders

  • 2004 Last Tango in Rio
  • 2009 Bossa Beleza

With Fahir Atakoglu

  • 2008 Istanbul in Blue
  • 2010 Faces & Places

With Victor Bailey

  • 1989 Bottom's Up
  • 1999 Low Blow

With David Binney

  • 2002 Balance
  • 2010 Aliso
  • 2011 Graylen Epicenter
  • 2014 Anacapa

With Michael Formanek

  • 1990 Wide Open Spaces
  • 1992 Extended Animation

With Leni Stern

  • 1988 Secrets
  • 1990 Closer to the Light
  • 1992 Ten Songs
  • 1998 Recollection

With others

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