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| Horace Bray and trumpeter Thaddeus Ford |
Horace Bray, the guitar player and composer from the famous
University of North Texas jazz school, has put out an outstanding album
Dreamstate with Colin Campbell on keyboards, Mike Luzecky on bass and Matt
Young and Connor Kent on drums.
Many would be surprised to learn that drums were Horace Bray’s
first instrument. ‘I started out playing drums along with Nirvana and Foo
Fighters and Blink 182,’ he said on the Lane Garner Guitar Podcast. ‘I think I
was 13.’
His mother introduced him to the guitar. ‘My mom taught me
like some John Denver song on her old acoustic guitar and then I just started
noodling on the acoustic guitar. And one day she bet me $100 that I couldn’t
learn Stairway to Heaven. So I did it. I remember getting really into it. I
basically learned everything on this acoustic guitar that was possible. Like
the middle of Jimmy Page’s solo where he goes up so high…The beginning, the
end, everything I learned and then got the hundred dollars. And then pretty
quickly after that I just started mainly playing guitar.
‘I quickly had the urge of wanting to be good at it. In the
eighth grade I got super, super into it, playing all day, doing it like six or
seven hours. I pretty much dedicated an entire summer to it and then I started
taking lessons from a really great guitar player named Corey Christiansen.’
Horace Bray listens to and was influenced by a number of
artists including Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, Brad Mehldau, Gerald Clayton,
Animals as Leaders, Drake, Radiohead, Chan, Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge.
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