Sound Check
Rick Stone Trio to Spotlight New Jazz CD at Nighttown Sunday
Guitarist Rick Stone, a 1974 Valley Forge High grad, will present his new music with Cleveland jazz veterans, Dave Morgan and Ron Godale.
Over the last 20 years, Rick Stone has been developing original compositions — some with a more contemporary leaning, but always rooted in bop. Bebop, that is. The jazz guitarist, whose Rick Stone Trio will perform at Nighttown Sunday, Aug. 7, became enamored with bebop in 1974, the year he graduated from Valley Forge High School in Parma. “I was hanging out in a friends basement in what probably looked like a scene from That '70s Show when Sonny Stitt (jazz/bebop saxophone player) came on the WMMS Live from the Smiling Dog broadcast,” Stone said via email after getting home from a two-week concert tour in Italy. “Growing up in Parma, I'd never really heard any bebop before, and I was just dazzled by it.” Stone, who started playing guitar …
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