Burr Johnson is an innovative guitarist whose powerful technique and artistic diversity have won him wide recognition nationally and internationally among both Jazz and Rock audiences. His dazzling repertoire is spiced liberally with flavors of jazz, rock, and blues.
Burr has toured nationally with Jazz organist Jack McDuff and has performed with him on various radio performances. He has performed with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and with legendary artists Ray Charles, B.B.King, Buddy Guy, Spyro Gyra and James "T-Model" Ford .
The Burr Johnson Band, who has perfomed at the prestigious Montreux Jazz festival in 2001 and 2002, is currently touring the United States and Germany. Mr Johnson recently performed side-by-side with King and Ford in Montreux, and then went on to headline the Manchester Jazz festival.
Burr Johnson completed a music video for the Terratec company in Germany in August on 2004. He has worked with Lauryn Hill in Jamaica, records frequently in New York City, and performed with Spyro Gyra in August of 2003.
He appeard in the major motion picture, "Beat Street," and has done many national television commercials for QVC.
Mr Johnson was asked to help develop a new signature "Burr Johnson model" guitar which will be coming out in the summer of 2007.
He has won honors in several jazz competitions and completed a series of performances in the Caribbean. He holds frequent guitar clinics to demonstrate the Axon guitar synthesizer that he helped to develop.
Johnson has performed annually since 1996 at the NAMM show in Los Angeles, the Music Messe show in Germany, and has been featured on CNN.
Fresh from performances in Frankfurt, Germany, Johnson is currently promoting his latest CD, Traveler.
