Hello Friends! Hope all is well. The big news is my teaching website has launched at Artistworks.com. I have put a lot of time into this site and look forward to meeting and working with anyone who wants to learn more about jazz – all levels are welcome. Come by and check it out: http://artistworks.com/join#dave-stryker

I’ve updated my itinerary page so please check it out. Here is my summer schedule:
May 5 The Django/NYC-7:30pm
May 6 SOPAC/So Orange NJ 7pm
May 9 INC/New Brunswick NJ 8pm
May 16 South/Philly 8pm w/ Mike Clark Trio
May 23 Golden Age Guitar Clinic/Westfield NJ 7:30pm
June 4 Falcon/Marlboro NY w/ Mike Clark Trio 7pm
June 12 Caffe Lena/Saratoga Springs NY w/ Chuck Lamb Quartet 7pm
June 15-16 Jambo Cat/Omaha NE 8:00pm
June 20 Tavern on George/New Brunswick NJ 8:00pm
June 23 Hat City Kitchen/Orange NJ 8:00pm
June 25-29 Skidmore Jazz Workshop/Saratoga Springs NY
July 1-13 Jamey Aebersold Workshop/Louisville KY
July 15-20 Litchfield Jazz Workshop/Litchfield CT
July 22-28 Jazz Port Townsend Camp/Centrum Port Townsend WA
Aug 4 Newport Jazz Fest w Sara Caswell/ Newport RI
Aug 5-10 Samba Meets Jazz Workshop/Bar Harbor ME
Aug 24-25 Smalls w Jared Gold Quartet/NYC

Lots of exciting news ahead including upcoming releases I produced for Strikezone Records: Jared Gold – “Reemergence” and McClenty Hunter “The Groove Hunter”, so stay tuned…In the meantime my new CD “Strykin’ Ahead” stayed on the JazzWeek radio chart now for 20 weeks, received 4 Stars in Downbeat where it was picked as one of the Top CD’s of 2017. It also was picked Best of 2017 by
Huffington Post – Ralph Miriello
Cadence Magazine – Larry Hollis
Bill Milkowski
All About Jazz – C. Andrew Hovan
Positive Feedback – Marc Phillips
Curt’s Jazz Cafe
Strykin’ Ahead is available here NOW on my website on CD and Vinyl(!). It features my quartet playing some new originals and my arrangements of some jazz standards. Jared Gold, McClenty Hunter and Steve Nelson (the same group from Eight Track II) join me once again.
“…Overall, the album casts a warm, clear glow, with plenty of cohesive interplay between Stryker, organist Jared Gold, drummer McClenty Hunter, and vibraphonist Steve Nelson. While influenced by many guitarists, Stryker remains true to his own vision. Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell may be touchstones, but Stryker forges his own sound throughout.”
4 Stars
Martin Kasdan / Downbeat Nov 2017
BTW this is also my first Vinyl release, so I hope you will check it out if you dig vinyl. It sounds great!

You can order it right here on the website along with all of my recordings and my book. Just click Buy CD’s Icon. Also please check out my itinerary page for more info on upcoming gigs.. Hope to see you soon! DS

Hope to see you soon- DS