MCG Jazz Online - The New Jazz Age - Guitarist Sheryl Bailey

Guitarist and Berkley School of Music Faculty member Sheryl Bailey joins MCG Jazz for an interactive online musical visit on September 23 at 7pm. For more, click on the New Jazz Age Goes Virtual at MCG Jazz dot ORG

Ask the Artist - Each month, MCGJazz will host a live chat session with an artist who has recorded on the MCG Jazz Label.

Sheryl Bailey

As a leader, Sheryl Bailey has toured worldwide including in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and Hong Kong, among other places, with projects including the Sheryl Bailey 3, the Sheryl Bailey 4, the Electric Ladyland Project, and Plucky Strum. She has 11 critically acclaimed releases as a leader including one on the MCG Jazz label, A New Promise. Her latest album is Departure (Whaling City Sound), with bass master Harvie Swartz.

Bailey has toured and recorded with multiple renowned artists and groups including the Anat Cohen Tentet, Richard Bona, David Krakauer’s Ancestral Groove, Abraham Inc., and Irene Cara, among many others. As an educator, she has been a professor of guitar at Berklee College of Music since 2000, and was recently named the assistant chair of Berklee's Guitar Department. She also is a visiting artist at the Collective School of Music in New York City and has hosted master classes and workshops worldwide. Her Mel Bay publication, Moveable Shapes, is a top seller in their jazz curriculum series. She has developed a group of interactive courses, collectively called the Bebop Dojo Bootcamp, for an online jazz academy at truefire.com.

Bailey plays her Signature McCurdy Mercury model and Stonebridge acoustic guitars, and uses Acoustic Image amplifiers.