Acclaimed jazz player Royce Campbell’s music brings together a range of styles, influences, and technical skill, defining his own, unique approach to jazz guitar.

As a full-time musician for over 40 years, Campbell has recorded music with more than a dozen labels in the U.S. and internationally, with twelve projects making the jazz radio airplay charts–including four reaching the top ten.

Campbell has been featured on the covers of String Jazz and Just Jazz Guitar. He also has been featured in profiles in Jazz Times, Down Beat, Guitar Player Magazine, 21st Century Guitar, Japan’s Swing Journal and Germany’s Akustik Gitarre.

Campbell has recorded with many of the greats of the jazz guitar, including legendary Pat Martino, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow, Jimmy Raney, and Cal Collins, Pat Martino, John Abercrombie, Larry Coryell, Mundell Lowe, John Pisano, Charlie Byrd, Gene Bertoncini, and Bucky Pizzarelli. Royce has toured in Europe eight times and in Japan ten times as a soloist. Royce has also performed with many other jazz giants such as Mel Torme, James Moody, Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Jack McDuff, Ray Brown, Dave Brubeck, Joe Williams, Cleo Laine, Eddie Daniels, Eddie Harris, Frank Morgan, Ken Poplowski, Gerry Mulligan, Houston Person, Freddy Cole, Vanessa Rubin, Jimmy Cobb, Fred Hersch, Rosemary Clooney, and Mose Allison.

Steve is a graduate of Berklee College of Music later adopting the seven-string guitar in 1993. He has recorded numerous CD’s as both leader and sideman and is also a respected jazz educator. Steve has over 60 video lessons published on Mike’s Masterclasses and has toured across the US and Europe playing and teaching. He is featured in the book The Great Jazz Guitarists by Scott Yanow. Steve Herberman won 1st place in the jazz category of the 2018 USA Songwriting Competition with his original “What We Do.” 

Steve placed as a top guitarist in the 2022 All About Jazz reader’s poll. He is an endorser of Comins Guitars and GLB Sound amps and is based in the Washington DC area.

When you think of the Amish countryside, jazz guitar rarely comes to mind. Yet born in Northern Indiana, jazz guitarist Jeff Massanari’s roots are firmly placed in the little town of Goshen. Jeff could have easily followed in the footsteps of his father and brothers with a career in academia, but an unexpected move to Washington DC at age 9 led Jeff down a very different path. Exposed to the music of a big city, Jeff sought out the guitar and began playing at age 13 first focusing on blues and rock. That was all to change when a friend brought over a recording of John McLaughlin’s “Inner Mounting Flame”. From the first note Jeff was hooked on jazz. By the time he was 17 he was performing and teaching jazz and blues in the Washington DC area. Jeff’s love of jazz took him from DC to Boston’s Berklee School of Music. After studying performance and composition, Jeff moved to California and settled in West Oakland. Once there, he established himself in the Bay Area jazz world and quickly became one of the most in-demand guitarists.