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SUMMARY:Eric DiVito Trio
DESCRIPTION:Eric DiVito – guitar \nBob Gingery – bass \nRay Levier – drums\n\n\nEric DiVito is a New York-based guitarist\, composer\, and educator who has been performing professionally since 2003. He has led his own groups and appeared as a sideman at many of NYC’s premier jazz clubs and festivals\, including Smalls\, The Iridium\, The Kitano\, The 55 Bar\, and international venues such as The Rex and The Jazz Room in Canada. His festival appearances include the Uptown Waterloo Jazz Festival\, AirTrain Jazz Festival\, and Garner Arts Festival\, among others. \n​Eric is an Eastman Guitars artist and a recording artist with Pioneer Jazz Collective (PJC Records)\, with two acclaimed albums to his name: Breaking the Ice (2012) and The Second Time Around (2013). His writing has also been featured in DownBeat Magazine\, RAE Magazine\, and Play Jazz Guitar. Eric lives in Rockland County\, NY with his wife and three children. \n\n  \nBob Gingery began playing the saxophone at age 10 but the sounds of James Jamerson\, Rocco Prestia\, and Jaco Pastorius inspired him to pick up the bass guitar. He was soon gigging with local rock bands and playing in his high school’s jazz band. At age 18\, he began studying the upright bass. Since his arrival to New York in 1999\, he has been performing with some of the city’s top musicians including Eliot Zigmund\, Joe Beck\, Buddy Williams\, Allan Harris\, Ron Affif\, Brad Shepik and Lou Volpe. He has played the Blue Note\, Birdland\, the Hartford International Jazz Festival\, Joe’s Pub and the Knitting Factory. Maintaining a busy schedule as both a sideman and band leader\, he is at home with many styles of music and has performed and recorded with jazz\, rock\, pop\, R&B and Latin artists\, musicals and symphony orchestras. \nGingery is also active as an educator. He is a faculty member at Concordia Conservatory in Bronxville\, NY and the Brearley School in New York\, NY. He holds undergraduate degrees in music from Berklee College of Music and California State University\, Chico and a masters degree in music from the City College of New York where he studied with Ron Carter\, John Patitucci\, and Geri Allen. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessional drummer Ray Levier is a veritable Swiss Army Knife on the kit\, facile at finessing jazz-fusion grooves\, swinging a jazz combo\, laying down rugged hip-hop beats and nasty funk\, accompanying singer-songwriters with subtle grace\, and bashing away at rock beats with panache and precision. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRay has also recorded with jazz fusion icons guitarists Mike Stern and John Abercrombie. Ray attended William Patterson College’s prestigious music program headed by legendary bassist Rufus Reid. . \nRay was born into a family of musicians—his father is a pianist and his mother was formerly a vocalist. On his own\, he discovered an old beater drum kit in his grandmother’s basement and began thumping away. At age 12\, Ray was very badly burned during a camping accident in a chicken coup when a fallen candle set the area ablaze with flames 3 to 4 stories high. Ray was sleeping at the time\, and was in a dreamy state slowly sensing danger and oppressive heat as he came conscious. The accident left Ray burned from his head to one inch above his navel\, and his recovery involved 6 months of excruciating skin grafts and hospital treatments. Through the accident he lost most of his digits as his hands fused together like fists. \nRay’s biggest immediate obstacle was figuring out how to hold drum sticks basically without fingers. That was a journey in itself that showed his steely determination. He improvised this feat first with duct tape\, then a special martial arts glove that he found\, and\, finally\, during college\, Ray had a surgery that granted him access and use of his thumb. “Throughout it all\, there was no doubt in mind that I could do it. My attitude was that I didn’t die—I will do anything to become a professional drummer\,” Ray shares. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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