New York City-based Guitarist Jason Ennis is an exciting up-and-coming voice in the worlds of Jazz and Brazilian music. His unique sound, deep groove and sensitive feel, coupled with a diverse background in Jazz, Blues, Brazilian Music and Classical Music has left him highly in demand as a soloist, sideman, bandleader and musical director. A graduate of Middlebury College (BA in music), Jason attended Berklee College of Music (Boston) and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
He has performed and/or recorded with Tessa Souter (Motéma Records), Charles Neville (The Neville Brothers Band), The Sonya Kitchell Band (Velour Music, Starbucks Hear Music), Todd Reynolds (Bang on a Can, Steve Reich), Joe Morton, The Ramón Ángel-Rey Trio, Los Mofos, Samirah Evans, Freddie Bryant, and Fred Haas among many others. As a leader, he has received popular acclaim for his groups The Jason Ennis Trio, Nós Daqui and The Bernal/Eckroth/Ennis Trio. He appears regularly in New York’s top clubs, including The Blue Note and Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Lincoln Center. A relentless collaborator, Ennis is currently editing a compilation of solo guitar arrangements by legendary guitarist Gene Bertoncini with the artist himself, and has embarked on a recording of his own solo arrangements of Jazz and Brazilian Classics as well as a duo recording with Brazilian seven-string guitar virtuoso, Marcello Gonçalves. Jason teaches guitar privately and is a faculty member at Interplay Jazz in Woodstock, Vermont.