David Pritchard (born March 3, 1949) is an American acoustic, classical, and jazz guitarist.

Biography

Pritchard began studying classical guitar at the age of 12 but as a teenager his interest turned to jazz. As a high school student, he founded the jazz-rock group Quintet de Sade and at the age of 20 he joined the Gary Burton Quartet, replacing guitarist

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. In the late eighties, he changed his writing and playing style away from jazz and into a more classical and minimalist style, playing mainly acoustic and classical guitars. He also began writing music for multiple acoustic guitars and solo classical guitar, and formed a guitar trio to perform his music. His first all-acoustic recording was ''Air Patterns'' in 1988 and was subsequently signed by Zebra Records for his second acoustic album ''Unassigned Territory,'' which was produced by

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. He has recorded four more acoustic albums of his original works on his own label, Morphic Resonance Music, the most recent being ''Evanescent''. As a composer, his classical guitar quartet ''Stairs'' has been recorded and performed by the

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and the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet. He has also written three books, one consisting of jazz fusion studies and the other two consisting of works for solo classical guitar.

Discography

As a co-leader with pianist Pete Robinson

* Contraband, ''Time and Space'' (Epic Records, 1970)

As a leader

* ''Lightyear'' (Inner City, 1978) * ''City Dreams'' (Inner City 1979) * ''Air Patterns'' (Molecular Music, 1990) * ''Unassigned Territory'' (Zebra 1999) * ''Velocity'' (Morphic Resonance, 2003) * ''Vertical Eden'' (Morphic Resonance, 2008) * ''Metal Roads'' (Morphic Resonance, 2010) * ''Among the Missing'' (Morphic Resonance, 2014) * ''Evanescen''t (Morphic Resonance, 2019)

As a sideman

With Gary Burton

* ''Very Touchy'' (Joker 1978)

With Michael Gibbs Orchestra/Gary Burton Quartet

* ''Festival 69'' (Turtle, 2018)

With David Axelrod

* ''Marchin’'' (MCA, 1980)

As a composer

* Gary Burton ''Throb'' Records (Atlantic, 1969) * Los Angeles Guitar Quartet ''Spin'' (Telarc, 2009) * Aquarelle Guitar Quartet ''Aspect''s Chandos (2016)

Books

* Pritchard, David ''Music for the Contemporary Guitarist''. (Belwin Mills Publ. Corp,1986). * Pritchard, David ''Clockworks for Solo Guitar'' (Columbia Music/Theodore Presser Co.,1994) * Pritchard David ''6 Pieces for Guitar Solo'' (Mel Bay/Bill's Music Shelf, 2010), ISBN 978-078668225-6

References

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