Jazz Guitarist: Tim Riddle at the New American Theater Back
Jazzing things up at New American Theater
St. Petersburg, FL – New American Theater (NAT) resumes their popular Instrumental Music
Series with Jazz Guitarist TIM RIDDLE. This one-night only event will be held at New American
Theater’s intimate 75-seat cabaret space at BayWalk on October 29 at 8:00pm.
Tim Riddle, who recently won Creative Loafing’s “Best of the Bay Award” for Instrumental
Musician – Reader’s Choice, will be performing songs from his latest album, "LUNA LOCA",
which features original tunes that are strong – fluid, infectious and playful. And tunes from his
upcoming album "REMEMBER WHEN" which is scheduled to be released in early 2012. With
three albums now to his credit, Riddle has demonstrated the ability to tease out those musical
discoveries again and again. The songs reveal shadings and complexities that remind you of the
redemptive power of beautiful melodies played well. Riddle's tunes have a sense of inevitability
to them, like all well-constructed songs, yet there's plenty of room for surprises.
Raised on the Jersey Shore, Riddle got the performing bug playing classic rock in bar bands.
Not content to riff his way into musical complacency, he found his voice listening to the jazz
masters. He returns to New Jersey to record. Luna Loca was recorded at Jankland Studio, the
jazz mecca owned and operated by sound engineer and trumpet great Steve Jankowski, comusical
director for Blood, Sweat and Tears. Riddle's travels between Tampa, where he studies
jazz guitar with LaRue Nickelson, a professor at University of South Florida, and The Jersey
Shore have given him a broad musical vocabulary and wide ambition. In the school of jazz,
Riddle is at once student, teacher, historian, and practitioner.
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WHAT: Jazz Guitarist TIM RIDDLE with Bill Swartzbaugh on bass guitar
WHO: Featuring Tim Riddle and Bill Swartzbaugh
WHEN: October 29 at 8:00pm, one show only!
WHERE: New American Theater Center @ BayWalk, 183 2nd Avenue N, St. Petersburg, FL
33701
TICKETS: $15 (available online, by phone, or at the box office)
MORE INFORMATION: NAT Box Office: 727-575-9241
General Admission Seating – Cash Bar Available
