Rock Creek Jazz
ROCK CREEK JAZZ
Guitar Jazz Trio
Rock Creek Jazz is a jazz trio consisting of two guitars and bass guitar that starts with traditional jazz and Brazilian jazz. Very quickly, however, it becomes clear that this trio brings a unique character to this music that gives it new life as the influence of many musical styles converge into and through each song. A large part of the repertoire of Rock Creek Jazz consists of original compositions, although the group’s musical horizons range from blues to bebop, bossa to bluegrass, and Thelonius Monk to the Beatles.
BOB WILLIAMS
Guitarist Bob Williams exhibits amazing skills on the guitar built on varied musical roots. He has performed rhythm and blues with the Peptonz, American folk music with Carey Creed, bluegrass with the Grass Menagerie, and classic rock and dance music with Scott Young and Steppin’ Out. Bob has written many original compositions for the group. Recently, Bob has expanded his musical range to include the piano and chromatic harmonica, as well as mandolin.
ROGER ST. VINCENT
Bassist Roger St. Vincent has played the five-string bass guitar with many Washington DC area bands and artists, including trombonist Rhoades Whitehill and the Sam Seymour big band, guitarists Steve Abshire and Rob Winter, saxophone and vocalist Maureen McCusker, as well as the trumpet-guitar-piano-bass phenomenon Richard Glass. For many years Mr. St. Vincent performed the trumpet with the Naval Academy Band in Annapolis Maryland, and was leader of the Brass Quintet there. He occasionally performs the trumpet with Rock Creek Jazz (ie., Bag's Groove).
WILLIAM BRODERICK
Bill Broderick is a guitarist who has written music in many styles, and performed with numerous diverse music groups, including The Skeptics and Cherry Pink Reason, the classical guitar/flute duo Flute of the Loom, the Los Angeles country rock band Windjammer, and the jazz quartet Foolish Heart. His musical compositions have been well recognized in songwriting competitions across the country.