Jocko’s Jazz: Bruce Gertz Quartet 2/16
Posted by Common on Feb 13, 2010 in Live Music • No comments
Jocko’s Jazz Presents the Bruce Gertz Quartet
at the Sahara Club
Tuesday night 7:30 –10:30
$5.00 cover at the door.
Bruce Gertz- Bass
Tim Miller – Guitar
Ken Cervenka – Trumpet
Bob Guillotti – Drums
American, acoustic and electric bass player and composer, born in Providence, Rhode Island. Bruce Gertz began playing guitar at the age of ten. By age fourteen he changed to the bass guitar and started playing rock, blues and later jazz. While attending BerkleeCollege of Music in Boston as a composition and arranging major, Bruce studied acoustic bass under John Neves and William Curtis. He began freelancing in the Boston area and soon built a reputation as a versatile player and soloist on both acoustic and electric bass. Gertz became associated with Bill Frisell, Mick Goodrick, Mike Stern, George Garzone, Jerry Bergonzi and other top players in Boston through time. Later Bruce studied more advanced jazz improvisation with Charlie Banacos and also through association with Jerry Bergonzi. Bruce has also toured with Billy Eckstine, Maynard Ferguson, Marlena Shaw, Gary Burton, Dave Brubeck, Jerry Bergonzi and others
Sahara Club
34 Bates St.
Methuen, MA 01844
978-683-9200
