"A modern guitar virtuoso." - Guitar Player Magazine
"One of jazz's most celebrated guitar players." - All About Jazz
Internationally acclaimed guitarist Fareed Haque joins the Pat Coil Trio for a special evening of jazz featuring pianist Pat Coil, bassist Jacob Jezioro, and drummer Ryan Brasley. Together, the quartet will perform a program of standards, originals, and inventive arrangements, drawing on the musical interplay and spontaneous improvisation that have long defined the jazz tradition.
Modern guitar virtuoso Fareed Haque is widely recognized for his extraordinary versatility, seamlessly blending jazz, classical, world music, fusion, and contemporary improvisation into a distinctive musical voice. Born to a Pakistani father and Chilean mother, his early exposure to a wide range of musical traditions continues to shape a career defined by technical mastery, stylistic range, and fearless creativity.
After studying jazz at the University of North Texas and classical guitar at Northwestern University, Haque launched an international career that has spanned more than four decades. He has performed and recorded with artists including Paquito D'Rivera, Joe Zawinul, Sting, Joe Henderson, Herbie Mann, Bob James, Cassandra Wilson, Joe Lovano, Zakir Hussain, and many others, while releasing acclaimed recordings as a leader on Blue Note Records and Sting's Pangaea label.
Haque is also the co-founder of the influential fusion group Garaj Mahal, whose decade of extensive touring helped establish the band as one of the leading acts in the modern jam and jazz-fusion scene. His work as a composer has included commissioned concertos for guitar, and he has appeared with orchestras, chamber ensembles, and at major jazz festivals throughout the world. In 2009, he was voted Best World Guitarist in Guitar Player magazine's Readers' Poll.
Equally at home in straight-ahead jazz, global musical traditions, and adventurous improvisation, Fareed Haque remains one of today's most distinctive and innovative voices on the guitar.
Pianist Pat Coil has toured Japan, South America, Europe and the U.S. with such artists as Michael McDonald, Carmen McCrae, Olivia Newton John, Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Woody Herman and many others. Pat has recorded with many artists including Natalie Cole, Trisha Yearwood, Ernie Watts, Carmen McCrae, BeBe & CeCe Winans, Kenny Rogers, Travis Tritt, Peter Cetera, Woody Herman, Scott Henderson, and Michael McDonald.
During his L.A. years, Pat played on many movie and TV scores, including Star Trek - Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Murphy Brown, Dionne Warwick & Friends, Growing Pains, Major Dad, Spencer For Hire, The Grammy Awards and many more. He played for various artists on the Tonight Show, Arsenio Hall, & Conan O'Brien. Living now in Nashville TN, Pat continues his successful career composing, recording, performing, producing, arranging and teaching. He has composed, produced and performed on hundreds of underscores heard on a variety of media all over the world. Pat taught jazz piano, combos, and improvisation at Middle Tennessee State University, and was an Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at the University Of North Texas.
Pat has recorded six solo jazz albums of his own, the third one being a collaboration with Lyle Mays. "True North" and his new album "Birdhouse" are available at patcoil.com, cdbaby.com and I-Tunes. Pat currently tours with Michael McDonald and Lynda Carter. He also makes numerous appearances with his own group. Pat has a new release of his original music, "Music For Humans….and Other Species". For more information, please visit patcoil.com.
