The Stryker / Slagle Band to Appear One Night Only at the Iridium Jazz Club

Press release
Source: Jazz Promo Services

The Stryker/Slagle Band, featuring Dave Stryker (guitar), Steve Slagle (sax), Ed Howard (bass), and, Tony Reedus (drums), will perform at the Iridium Jazz Club in NYC for one night only on August 24, 2005.

Guitarist Dave Stryker and saxophonist Steve Slagle are a rarity in jazz having stuck together while developing a group sound for close to 20 years. They have just recorded their first live CD entitled Live at the Jazz Standard due in the fall on the Zoho Music label. In the meantime they will also be playing music from Stryker's brand new CD Big City (Mel Bay Records).

Guitarist Dave Stryker has 18 CDs out as a leader and has been a sideman on over 40 others. He got his start with organist Jack McDuff, before becoming Stanley Turrentine's guitarist for over 13 years. He was recently voted a Rising Star Guitarist in the 2004 Downbeat Critics poll.

Saxophonist Steve Slagle has 10 CDs out as a leader and has been a sideman on many others, having performed with Machito, Charlie Haden, Carla Bley, Joe Lovano, the Mingus Big Band, and many more.

It was apparent in the first few numbers of their opening set Tuesday at the Jazz Bakery that Stryker's guitar work and Slagle's saxophone playing were the products of first-rate jazz talents. Often tossing riffs back and forth and breaking into high-speed unison passages, they were an impressive pair. After more than a decade of working together, their musical communication now reaches beyond empathetic and into symbiotic swinging.
Don Heckman, LA Times

The quartet's precise interplay, honed over a period of ten years and four recordings is as cohesive as it is adventurous.
Mike Joyce, Washington Post

A hard-swinging virtuoso guitarist with a bluesy edge, West Orange-based Stryker hits all the right notes...Steve Garmhausen

If only every band's debut could be as engaging as this new releaseÅ vibrant, modern originals played with elan.
Zan Stewart, Newark Star Ledger

For more information, visit: Dave Stryker www.davestryker.com / Steve Slagle www.steveslagle.com.

The Iridium Jazz Club is located at 1650 Broadway (corner of 51st), New York, NY. For reservations call 212-582-2121. Sets are at 8 and 10 p.m. For more information visit www.iridiumjazzclub.com.