MP3 Jim Savitt - Hear And Now

This contemporary jazz release from NY City guitarist Jim Savitt has received global airplay. The disc also features sax star David Mann.

12 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Smooth Jazz, JAZZ: Acid Jazz



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New York City native Jim Savitt is a critically acclaimed guitarist & producer whose improvisation and compositions have been described as "fluid & melodic with a flare for phrasing". Jim's CD entitled "Hear & Now" has received high international acclaim and has been played around the globe. This disc features sax superstar & Special EFX member David Mann.

Jim Savitt opened for Grammy nominee Boney James and was interviewed and performed live to an audience of 4.5 million nationwide listeners on the WOR Radio Network's Joey Reynolds Show. He has performed extensively in New York and internationally including engagements in Cairo, Egypt.

Jim headlined at the WJZA 103.5 FM Summer Jazz concert series, is being played on VH1 Radio and Music Match, had a Top 5 Single on Music Choice nationwide, was chosen as a Best Undiscovered Artist by Guitar 9 and he was the Artist of the Week on WAVE 94.7FM. "Hear & Now" has been played on New York's CD 101.9 FM and was voted as one of the Best Releases of 2002 by Smooth Jazz Canada. Savitt was selected as a winner in the SONY International Search for New Jazz Artists and he performed at the Jamaica Jazz Festical.

Jim also wrote and produced the debut chill out CD by Manhattan Project called "Chillin' Nights" which has received airplay and a mention in R&R Magazine. He also produced & performed on the critically acclaimed New Age CD Leaving Footprints.

Jim's first instrument was the trumpet, which he started playing when he was 10 years old, and he won the prestigious Louis Armstrong Jazz Award in high school. He studied at the Berklee School of Music and has a bachelor of science degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, where he was the musical director of their 17 piece jazz band. He also manages SaviTech Studio, a digital recording facility in Manhattan.