Dave Stryker

Dave Stryker is an American jazz guitarist. He has recorded more than 35 albums as a leader and has been a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and Kevin Mahogany.

Career

Stryker grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. When he was 10 years old, he was inspired by The Beatles to start playing guitar. His interest was rock and roll until he heard the albums My Favorite Things by John Coltrane and Beyond the Blue Horizon by George Benson. By 17, he was a jazz guitarist in Omaha. In 1978, he moved to Los Angeles, where he took lessons from another Omaha native, Billy Rogers, and met organist Jack McDuff. After moving to New York City, he toured with McDuff in 1984–1985, then spent ten years with saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.
Stryker formed a band with saxophonist Steve Slagle and a trio with organist Jared Gold and drummer Tony Reedus. He worked with Kevin Mahogany as sideman, composer, and arranger, appeared with him at Carnegie Hall, and toured with him in Europe and Japan. He has also worked with Eliane Elias, Javon Jackson, and Andy LaVerne.
He has taught jazz guitar at Indiana University and Montclair State University and at the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshop, the Litchfield Jazz Camp, and the Veneto/New School Workshop in Italy.
In 2018, Stryker began teaching jazz guitar online through the ArtistWorks music education website.
Stryker is the a member of the jazz faculty at William Paterson University, Rutgers University, and Montclair State University.

With Stryker/Slagle Band

With Trio Mundo

With Others

With Jared Gold

With Steve Slagle

With others