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Howard Alden is an American jazz guitarist who has been active in the jazz scene since the late 1970s. He has released over 20 albums as a leader and has appeared on over 100 albums as a sideman. He has performed with many of the greats of jazz, including Benny Carter, Joe Williams, Rosemary Clooney, and Woody Herman. Alden was born in Newport Beach, California, and began playing guitar at the age of nine. He studied classical guitar at the University of Southern California and later studied jazz guitar with Joe Diorio. He has been a member of the Los Angeles Jazz Quartet, the New York All-Star Big Band, and the Woody Herman Orchestra. Alden has been nominated for seven Grammy Awards and has won two. He has also been nominated for the Jazz Journalists Association's Guitarist of the Year award five times, winning in 2000. He has been featured in Downbeat magazine's Critics Poll and Readers Poll numerous times. Alden is currently a professor of jazz guitar at the University of Southern California. He is also a member of the Los Angeles Jazz Quartet and the New York All-Star Big Band.

Popular As Howard Vincent Alden
Occupation Musician
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 17 October 1958
Birthday 17 October
Birthplace Newport Beach, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1999

Alden recorded the guitar performances for Sean Penn's character Emmet Ray in Woody Allen's 1999 film Sweet and Lowdown, and taught Penn how to mime the performances for the film. The score also featured Bucky Pizzarelli on rhythm guitar and arrangements by pianist Dick Hyman.

1985

Alden formed the Alden-Barrett Quintet in 1985 with Dan Barrett, which played in the swing idiom, as he has done for most of his career. He also began partnerships with Ruby Braff, Kenny Davern and Jack Lesberg. He joined George Van Eps, Innovator of the seven-string guitar, on tour and recorded albums with him, switching to the seven-string himself in 1992.

1982

He moved to New York City in 1982 to play an extended engagement at the Café Carlyle with jazz pianist/songwriter Joe Bushkin. Soon afterwards, he was discovered by Joe Williams and Woody Herman. In 1983 he was already collaborating with Dick Hyman, when he appeared with him and a host of other musicians at Eubie Blake's one-hundredth birthday concert.

1979

Alden made his first trip to the east coast in the summer of 1979, playing in a trio led by vibraphonist Red Norvo for three months at Resorts International in Atlantic City.

1958

Howard Vincent Alden (born October 17, 1958) is an American jazz guitarist born in Newport Beach, California. Alden has recorded many albums for Concord Records, including four with seven-string guitar Innovator George Van Eps.

Howard Vincent Alden was born in Newport Beach, California on October 17, 1958. He grew up in Huntington Beach, playing piano, harmonica, the four-string tenor guitar, and then four-string banjo at age ten. After hearing recordings of Barney Kessel, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt and other jazz guitar greats, he got a six-string guitar and started teaching himself to play. As a teenager he played both instruments at venues in the Los Angeles area. He studied guitar with Jimmy Wyble when he was 16. In 1977–78 he studied jazz guitar at the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) in Hollywood with Herb Ellis, Joe Pass, and Howard Roberts. At GIT he assisted Roberts in organizing and preparing curriculum materials. Alden then conducted some of his own classes at GIT.

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