Live Entertainment @ City Beach featuring Lloyd Greagory April 4, 2009

When you think of that certain style of classic jazz guitar that is smooth, soulful, melodic, flowing and immediately likeable, you think of names like Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Earl Klugh and Larry Carlton. Lloyd Gregory has taken his place on that list of illustrious jazz guitarists. On his fourth album, Free Fallin, Lloyd Gregory tips his hat to those who influenced him while carving out his own distinctive style that also includes hints of his R&B roots.

Winner of several Bay Area Top Star Awards and the Bay Area Blues Society Jazz Artist of the Year, Lloyd Gregory entertains audiences with his wealth of Jazz, blues, popular favorites and standards.

Lloyd Gregory, a popular entertainer on the San Francisco/Bay Area music scene for several decades, has an instrumental sound that may be the epitome of smooth, but it also contains subtle elements of classic soul music due to his early career as an R&B performer, especially the years he spent touring extensively while serving as the musical director for The Ballads, Natural Four and Jesse James, and performing on their albums.

Gregory also has recorded with Martha Reeves, MC Smooth and Freddie Stewart ( Sly & The Family Stone); and has performed onstage with Rodney Franklin, Stanley Clarke, George Duke, Gerald Albright, Lenny Williams (Tower of Power), Freda Payne, The Dells, and Lowell Fulsom.

Official Website: http://www.citybeach.com