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Howard Alden
Howard Alden
Artist Information
Genres: Swing, Mainstream Jazz
Active: 80's, 90's, 2000's
Born: October 17, 1958 in Newport Beach, CA
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Biography
Part of the '80s swing movement, Howard Alden is a brilliant guitarist (on both electric and acoustic) who has also mastered the seven-string guitar and the banjo. Alden started off playing banjo in Dixieland bands in pizza parlors in Southern California. When he acquired a guitar, he took lessons from Jimmy Wyble and Howard Roberts. He worked at ~Disneyland when he was 18 and in 1978 debuted in the big leagues with Red Norvo.
Discography
Release: 2007
Label: Arbors
Release: 2006
Label: Mel Bay