Chris Cortez & Steve Luciano

Name: Chris Cortez & Steve Luciano
Start: 2025-08-30T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-30T22:00:00-04:00
Location: 460 E. New England Ave., Winter Park, FL, United States, Florida 32789

Schedule

Sat Aug 30 2025 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

460 E. New England Ave., Winter Park, FL, United States, Florida 32789 | Winter Park, FL

Join us for an evening of jazz featuring two fabulous guitarists.
Chris Cortez is the founder of Blue Bamboo Music and Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts. He is a composer, guitarist, vocalist, arranger, producer, engineer, videographer, educator, community leader, arts advocate, and recording artist. He has produced over 50 CDs and hundreds of music videos.
Chris’ guitar style is uniquely his own, and his vocabulary is instantly recognizable to fans of his previous work. Growth and evolution are obvious, but Cortez still sounds like Cortez. There is a compositional feeling in his solos, and a relentless sense of meter and precision. Themes unfold with an emotional arc that takes you on a journey, and his songs provide the perfect backdrop for that kind of development. There is a landscape to explore with plenty surprises, but everything makes sense and seems filled with intention.
Chris’ solo shows are also filled with lively and entertaining stories from his show business past.

Steve Luciano was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and studied guitar with legendary teacher Joe Tinari. Steve attended the University of Bridgeport where he studied Jazz Guitar with Sal Salvador. Steve is a founding member of the contemporary jazz group GrooveLogic.
Steve has recorded with many groups playing Jazz to Rock n Roll, and Pop. Steve was also a staff musician for Walt Disney World for 18 years and was the guitarist for the “Larry Elgart Orchestra”. Steve is currently the guitarist for the "Disney on Broadway" series for the "Festival of the Arts" at Epcot.
Over the years Steve has performed with jazz musicians including Charles Erland, George Morrow, Joe Morello, Danny Gottlieb, and Adam Nussbaum. He has also performed with other performers including Donald O’Conner, Robert Goulet, Regis & Kathy Lee, Michael Feinstein, Billy Preston, Pebo Bryson, and Brian McKnight.
Steve participated in The television program “Jazz Here and Now” for WCEU Public Television in Daytona Beach, Florida. He was part of the pit orchestra for “The Broadway Series” at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center in Orlando, the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, and the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
Steve is an adjunct guitar instructor at Southeastern University in Lakeland Florida and Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
Steve wrote a jazz guitar method book for Alfred publishing entitled “Jazz Sounds for Guitar." He is currently promoting his new album release entitled "Under the Covers."
Read more about Steve and his new album release here: https://www.steveonguitar.com/