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Mike Armando - guitar
Andrew Golba - bass
Gene Linefsky - drums
Early in his musical career, Mike was the guitarist for Screamin Jay Hawkins. ( I Put A Spell On You). Mike Armando has produced 13 CDs on the mja Record Label with such artists as Grammy Award winner Fred Lipsius from Blood Sweet & Tears, Nancy Monroe, David Allan Gross, Chris Clark. Pat Morrissey, Artt Frank. Mike has worked with many other great musician's in his recording and musical career with the likes of Eddie Gomez, Marcus McLaurine, Michael Cochrane, Mike Stern & Bob Moses who recorded on Mike Armando’s mja release “The Count Down”. Mike Armando has performed at the Iridium in NYC and has performed on radio and TV stations across the country.
Jazz/Blues guitarist Mike Armando has paid his dues several times over and you can hear it in his playing. My one time contemporary, Charlie Bird Parker once said, “You can’t play it if you haven’t lived it.” When you listen to Mike, you’ll will know from the very first note that he lived what he plays. There’s a seasoned unfiltered quality in his phrasing that awakens our ears to his affinity for the real deal form of jazz. With Mike, its all about feeling, just as it was with all of the great players of the past and the few greats who are on the scene today. The sounds Mike has taken in and absorbed through the years didn’t come from any music school class, but straight from his life’s experiences, and from hanging around the great jazz clubs in New York City; and being able to see some of the greats perform up close and personal. Mike has a way of drawing his listeners in and making them a personal part of what he and his group are playing. Mike has surrounded himself with some really fine jazz musicians.
Artt Frank - drummer for the late great Chet Baker.
