Milford’s Home-Grown Jazz Trio with Mark White on Guitar
Visit Mark White’s website and you will see a glowing endorsement from international pop sensation Imagine Dragons’ guitarist, who plays guitar to stadiums full of screaming fans, and describes White’s knowledge of the instrument as “unparalleled.” Listen to White’s playing and you will almost certainly agree.
In the jazz idiom, one does not always find piano and guitar cohabitating in a small ensemble. Both instruments play chords, and so the theory goes, they will get in each other’s way. But a closer look at the recording literature suggests otherwise. Doubtless, a certain attention to detail is required to sidestep the potential “clash” that leads many to avoid the guitar-piano combination altogether. Yet that never stopped Oscar Peterson and Herb Ellis, or Bill Evans and Jim Hall, or a guitarist like Russell Malone from recording with a great many pianists, such as Benny Green, Cyrus Chestnut, Diana Krall, and Harry Connick, Jr., to name a few.
Collaborating during a recording session for local legend Jerry Seeco, White and 2/3 of the Milford Home-Grown Jazz Trio recognized obvious chemistry. White was thus asked to partake in the Homefield Credit Union Jazz at Sorrento Series in February of 2024. The audience’s endorsement all but required a second invitation. The collaboration thus continues.
