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Born in Montgomery, WV in 1951 but a resident of Greensboro since 1957, Greg Hyslop has been a long-standing member of the piedmont North Carolina jazz community. He graduated from Berklee College of Music (Boston) in 1977 and returned to his hometown to settle down and raise a family.
With his hollow-bodied electric guitar, Hyslop performs straight ahead jazz with a bebop flavor. He has released two recordings so far. The first was a session with Kenny Werner on piano and John Riley on drums entitled Manhattan Date. This LP was rated four stars in Down Beat Magazine. The second recording, simply titled The Greg Hyslop Trio featured David Fox on piano and Charles Gambetta on bass. This CD of chamber jazz includes two Hyslop originals and some selected standards such as Jerome Kern’s Yesterdays. His CD may be purchased at http://cdbaby.com/cd/hyslop

Guitarist and church musician Ken Wilson was born in Winston-Salem in 1952. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 1974 a the school’s first classical guitar major, having studied with Jésus Silva and Robert Guthrie. He continued his musical studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, receiving a Master’s Degree in Church Music (composition and classical guitar) and the Doctor of Miscal Arts in conducting.
He also studied jazz guitar in Louisville with Jeff Sherman at Bellamine College. During these years he taught guitar at the seminary and at Kentucky State University.