About
Recording Session
Andre Ferreri is a versatile, New York-born and Charlotte-based guitarist known for his extensive work across multiple genres, including jazz, pop, and rock. Throughout his 50 year career, he has collaborated with many artists as a guitarist, arranger and writer.
Performance
On the stage, he has worked with legendary artists like Dave Valentin, Bill Evans, Gregg Karukas, Branford Marsalis, Adam Nitti, Victor Vanacore as well as older artists including Chuck Berry, Sam Moore, and Herbie Mann. He also has performed frequently with the Charlotte Symphony. He is currently performing and recording with Gene Woods and the Soul Alliance and with his group The Jazz Alliance.
Music Production
Beyond his stage performances, Ferreri has a significant footprint in commercial music, composing for television, films, and advertisements. You can hear his production work on many shows for the Discovery and History channels.
Album Projects
Producing, arranging, writing and recording album projects has been a big part of his musical portfolio.
He is also the co-founder of Laser Records, a label dedicated to promoting musicians, and recently released the well-received jazz album Numero Uno with his quintet. Some others are Airstream (Relatively Speaking) Dee Bell (Sagacious Grace), The Brubakers (Forever), Ziad, (Emergence), Mari (Mari)
Latest Release
The guitar wizard Andre Ferreri has enjoyed an esteemed career playing all sorts of different genres of music, and here he’s focused on jazz and brings some exceptional help with him across bebop, swing and soulful textures.
“Mighty Fine” starts the listen with punchy drumming from Kobie Watkins as the frisky jazz climate benefits much from Quintetto’s agile guitar lines and Ziad Rable’s flowing sax, and “Seasons” follows with a calming display of soothing, melodic musicianship, where Mark Stalling mesmerizes us with his piano prowess amid playful drumming and soulful brass.
“Avia Pervia” lands in the middle and is one of the best tracks, as evidenced by Brad Wilcox’s trumpet skill, Philip Howe’s intricate keys, and, of course, Quintetto’s sublime guitar playing, while “We Were All Children”, another exceptional tune, brings much beauty to a cautious atmosphere of elegance. “Good Bones” then gets busy, dynamic and dreamy, as Quintetto’s finger acrobatics are as fascinating as they are exciting.
Close to the end, “Making Minor Changes” glides with stylish, warm and detailed song craft, and “Love Letter To Mary” exits the listen with much grace as it touches on both vintage and modern jazz sensibilities.
An effort that’s mood focused and often European at its core, Ferreri and company balance power and restraint in a very timeless landscape that you’ll want to revisit often.
" Gabor Lesko- Earthway; Reza Khan- Imaginary Road "
Latest Release
"Alongside my passion for writing and recording my own music I work in sales for a software company that supports nurses in the health care industry. My mom has been a NICU nurse for 30+ years so the opportunity to help nurses provide better care for patients was a natural fit for my unique skill set, and it’s a role I’ve found a lot of purpose in over the past year. So imagine my surprise when I found someone else who is also a working professional in the healthcare industry who moonlights as a musician during his free time, the CEO of Advocate Health Gene Woods. Woods’ scope of responsibility is just a little bit larger than mine– I manage a team of sellers for a 200-person company, while he oversees a massive system of over 65 hospitals with 150,000 employees and 6 million annual patients in the Charlotte area. But it’s always great to see how the passion of music intersects so many different areas of life and has the ability to bring folks of different backgrounds together."
His debut album Love & Protest was released in 2022 and features an incredible cast of musicians who have backed James Brown and John Mayer, and led by Mr. Woods they deliver some really great sounding jazz and big band sounds. The Today Show did a great segment on his life and career which is worth a watch as well, where he eloquently describes how leadership and music are connected in ways that help him in every facet of his life. And I couldn’t agree more.
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