Music of the Mountains: Where to be and what to see -- Jason Greenlaw
01/04/25 • 24 min
Jason Greenlaw grew up on the East Coast, just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor of arts in Jazz Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, studying guitar under Joe Negri and improvisation under Geri Allen, before moving to Colorado in 2020. He is currently based in the Denver/Boulder area of Colorado, where he focuses primarily on jazz guitar, playing in solo shows, small jazz combos, pit orchestras, and wedding bands. He is also a teacher, having taught hundreds of students ranging from 6 to 80 years old, and he loves inspiring passion for music in his audiences and his students.
Greenlaw has been interested in music from a very young age. His first instrument was the violin in elementary school (around first or second grade), and he eventually picked up the alto saxophone, playing that instrument into middle school. By sixth grade, he switched to the guitar and never looked back. At that point, he started performing in the jazz band at the beginning of high school and delved into private music instruction outside of school.
Greenlaw’s private teacher started exposing him to more jazz music during that time, but it wasn’t until he started and graduated college that he started performing it on a more serious level on his own. Especially in middle and high school, he also listened to 90s grunge music, and his dad loved classic rock, including Santana and Billy Cobham. In the end, though, jazz became his primary focus as he explored music more on his own.
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Jason Greenlaw grew up on the East Coast, just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor of arts in Jazz Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, studying guitar under Joe Negri and improvisation under Geri Allen, before moving to Colorado in 2020. He is currently based in the Denver/Boulder area of Colorado, where he focuses primarily on jazz guitar, playing in solo shows, small jazz combos, pit orchestras, and wedding bands. He is also a teacher, having taught hundreds of students ranging from 6 to 80 years old, and he loves inspiring passion for music in his audiences and his students.
Greenlaw has been interested in music from a very young age. His first instrument was the violin in elementary school (around first or second grade), and he eventually picked up the alto saxophone, playing that instrument into middle school. By sixth grade, he switched to the guitar and never looked back. At that point, he started performing in the jazz band at the beginning of high school and delved into private music instruction outside of school.
Greenlaw’s private teacher started exposing him to more jazz music during that time, but it wasn’t until he started and graduated college that he started performing it on a more serious level on his own. Especially in middle and high school, he also listened to 90s grunge music, and his dad loved classic rock, including Santana and Billy Cobham. In the end, though, jazz became his primary focus as he explored music more on his own.
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