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Jim Josselyn

Jim got his first guitar at age 11 in Nogales, Mexico on a family trip and hasn't put it down since. Shortly after he heard Jimi Hendrix and ultimately Coltrane and Wes and Pat Martino among others and was hooked on jazz. Jim has studied with Pat, Ted Dunbar, Jimmy heath, Sir Roland Hanna, Steve Khan and Rodney Jones.

He's performed with Larry Ridley, Jeb Patton, Jim Ridl, Jimmy Heath, Wynton Marsalis and at Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the NJPAC and countless clubs and festivals.

Gear

Gibson Pat Martino Custom

Ibanez George Benson

Taylor Acoustic

D'Angelico 12 string acoustic

Jim Josselyn: Shape Shifter

Read "Shape Shifter" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler
August 17, 2023

Keith Richards once said if “you don't know the blues, there's no point in picking up the guitar." This is certainly true about rock, but it could just as easily apply to jazz. Many of the great jazz guitarists have roots in the blues, and Jim Josselyn is no exception. His album Shape Shifter offers a tasty serving of jazz seasoned with the blues. Josselyn started playing guitar when he was young, but he took his ...

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Album Review

The Jim Josselyn Group: Brazilian Sunflower

by Dave Hughes
November 1, 2001

The Jim Josselyn Group’s Brazilian Sunflower isn’t so much about Brazilian music as it’s title suggests; perhaps it’s the sunflower itself that’s Brazilian. True, the title tune and the closer do have that gentle lilting samba feel, but I would describe this more as jazz with a Brazilian influence rather than the other way around. But categorizations aside, this outing is pure contemporary straight-ahead enjoyment.

And it’s nice stuff. After the two-minute “Prelude,” the remaining songs are long enough (seven ...

"If you like your Jazz/Blues greasy with a side of Wes, Burrell and a smattering of Jim Hall, then check out New Jersey’s own Jim Josselyn" Lyle Robinson, Jazz Guitar Life