Genres Jazz/fusion, rock Name Carl Filipiak Website www.carlfilipiak.com | Years active 1963–present Instruments Guitar | |
Born September 17, 1950 (age 73)
Baltimore, Maryland, United States ( 1950-09-17 ) Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, instructor, author Labels Geometric Records, Art of Life Records Role Guitarist · carlfilipiak.com Albums Blue Entrance, Electric Thoughts, Right on Time Associated acts Dennis Chambers, Lafayette Gilchrist Similar People Dennis Chambers, Bob Berg, Gary Thomas, Will Calhoun | ||
Waken Tanka- Carl Filipiak and Jimi Jazz Band Live at 89.7 WTMD
Carl Filipiak is an American jazz fusion guitarist.
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Career
In 1987 Carl Filipiak recorded his first album, Electric Thoughts on his own Geometric Records. Soon after, he started recording and playing with Dennis Chambers, Greg Grainger, and Gary Grainger. In 1990 Blue Entrance was released. He met Bob Berg, who played on Right On Time (1993), Hotel Real (1997), and Peripheral Vision (2000). In the late 1990s he toured with Victor Wooten and Will Calhoun. His music has been featured in the Olympics and on televised events for NBC Sports and Turner Broadcasting.
He is a member of Lafayette Gilchrist and the New Volcanoes and can be heard on It Came From Baltimore and The Go Go Suite. Lafayette's music can be heard on the HBO series The Wire and Treme. In October 2015 he recorded in London at Abbey Road Studios with The Only Road Band on the album Live in Two. Produced by Rob Cass, it features performances by Bernie Marsden from Whitesnake, Dean Ross, Tom and Ernie Lombardo, Eric Scott, John Thomakos, and Chuck Thompson.
Filipiak is the author of Rock-Fusion Improvising, an instructional book and companion CD from Mel Bay Publications.
He has been the opening act for Wynton Marsalis, Roberta Flack, and Eric Johnson.