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Earl Klugh (pronounced "Clue") (born September 16, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan
Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 smooth jazz
Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a sub-genre of jazz which is influenced stylistically by Rhythm and blues, funk and pop music.Beginning in the early 1970s, it was an evolution into jazz with a modern, electronic sensibility....
/jazz fusion
Jazz fusion

Fusion or, more specifically, jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a musical genre that merges jazz with elements of other styles of music, particularly funk, Rock and roll, R&B, electronic music, and world music, but also pop music, classical music, and folk music, or sometimes even Heavy metal music, reggae, ska, country music, hip hop...
 guitarist
Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
 and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
. Klugh currently resides in the Buckhead
Buckhead

The term Buckhead may mean:*Buckhead , an upscale district of Atlanta, Georgia**Buckhead , a passenger rail station in the Buckhead district in Atlanta, Georgia...
 district of Atlanta, Georgia.

At the age of 13, Klugh was captivated by the guitar playing of Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins

Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins was an influential American guitarist and record producer.His picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers both within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally....
 when Atkins made an appearance on the Perry Como
Perry Como

Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
 Show. Klugh was a performing guest on several of Atkins' albums. Atkins, reciprocating as well, joined Earl on his Magic In Your Eyes album.






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Earl Klugh (pronounced "Clue") (born September 16, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan
Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 smooth jazz
Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a sub-genre of jazz which is influenced stylistically by Rhythm and blues, funk and pop music.Beginning in the early 1970s, it was an evolution into jazz with a modern, electronic sensibility....
/jazz fusion
Jazz fusion

Fusion or, more specifically, jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a musical genre that merges jazz with elements of other styles of music, particularly funk, Rock and roll, R&B, electronic music, and world music, but also pop music, classical music, and folk music, or sometimes even Heavy metal music, reggae, ska, country music, hip hop...
 guitarist
Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
 and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
. Klugh currently resides in the Buckhead
Buckhead

The term Buckhead may mean:*Buckhead , an upscale district of Atlanta, Georgia**Buckhead , a passenger rail station in the Buckhead district in Atlanta, Georgia...
 district of Atlanta, Georgia.

At the age of 13, Klugh was captivated by the guitar playing of Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins

Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins was an influential American guitarist and record producer.His picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers both within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally....
 when Atkins made an appearance on the Perry Como
Perry Como

Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
 Show. Klugh was a performing guest on several of Atkins' albums. Atkins, reciprocating as well, joined Earl on his Magic In Your Eyes album. Klugh was also influenced by Bob James
Bob James (musician)

Bob James is a smooth jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist, arranger and Record producer....
, Ray Parker Jr, Wes Montgomery
Wes Montgomery

John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an United States jazz guitarist. He is generally considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others, including Pat Martino, George Benson, and Pat Metheny....
 and Laurindo Almeida
Laurindo Almeida

Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian classical classical guitar.Prior to being invited to the United States in 1947 by Stan Kenton, Laurindo Almeida played guitar in Rio de Janeiro where he was known for his classical Spanish guitar playing....
. His sound is a blend of these jazz, pop and rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s....
 influences, forming a potpourri of sweet contemporary music
Contemporary music

In the broadest and popular sense, Contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. This could include any kind of present music....
 original to only him.

Klugh became a guitar instructor at the young age of 15, and was eventually discovered by Yusef Lateef
Yusef Lateef

Dr. Yusef Lateef is an United States jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and Music education and a renowned spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to Islam in 1950....
. His career rapidly progressed to working with the likes of George Benson
George Benson

George Benson is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Pop music and R&B singer, famous for such hits as "Give Me the Night", "Lady Love Me ", "Turn Your Love Around", "Inside Love", "In Your Eyes", and "This Masquerade", among...
, George Shearing
George Shearing

Sir George Shearing Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom jazz pianist who, during the 1950s, had a popular Jazz group for MGM Records and Capitol Records....
, Chick Corea
Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer.He is known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion....
, and many others. Like several other Detroit-bred entertainers, Klugh attended Mumford High School (Michigan)
Mumford High School (Michigan)

Samuel C. Mumford High School'Mumford High School is a secondary education facility, operated by the Detroit Board of Education.The school opened its doors in September 1949, at a time when segments of Detroit's population had already begun an inexorable movement toward the suburban communities of Oakland County....
.

For their album One on One, Klugh and Bob James
Bob James (musician)

Bob James is a smooth jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist, arranger and Record producer....
 received a Grammy award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance
Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance has been awarded since 1969.*In 1969 it was awarded as Best Contemporary-Pop Performance, Instrumental...
 of 1981. He has since received 13 Grammy nods, millions of record and CD sales, and continues touring worldwide to this day.

Each Spring, Klugh hosts a special Weekend of Jazz (http://www.weekendofjazz.com/index.php) featuring jazz legends and greats at the Five-Star Broadmoor Hotel
Broadmoor Hotel

The Broadmoor Hotel is a star /5-diamond luxury hotel and resort, located in southwestern Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado. Built in the early 20th century as the "Grand Dame of the Rockies", it was one of the finest resort destinations along the Rocky Mountains during the age of railroads....
 & Resort in Colorado Springs. Jazz greats including Ramsey Lewis
Ramsey Lewis

Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr. is an United States jazz icon, composer, pianist and radio personality. He has been referred to as "the great performer", a title reflecting his performance style and musical selections which display his early gospel playing and classical training along with his love of jazz and other musical forms....
, Patti Austin
Patti Austin

Patti Austin, born August 10 1950, in Harlem, New York, to Edna and Gordon Austin, is a Grammy award-winning R&B and jazz music singer....
, Chuck Mangione
Chuck Mangione

Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1978 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good "....
, Bob James
Bob James

Bob James may refer to:*Bob James , jazz keyboardist, arranger and producer of music*Bob James , former baseball player for the Expos, Tigers, and White Sox...
, Joe Sample
Joe Sample

Joseph Leslie "Joe" Sample is an United States pianist, keyboard player and composer. He was one of the founding members of the Jazz Crusaders, the band which became simply The Crusaders in 1971, and remained a part of the group until its final album in 1991 ....
, Chris Botti
Chris Botti

Christopher Stephen Botti or Chris Botti [BOH-tee] is an American trumpeter and composer. Born in Portland, Oregon and raised in Corvallis, Oregon, Oregon, he spent two years of his childhood growing up in Italy....
, Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack

Roberta Flack is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter and musician who is notable in the areas of jazz, soul music, R&B and folk music....
, and Arturo Sandoval
Arturo Sandoval

Arturo Sandoval is a jazz trumpeter and pianist. He was born in Artemisa, in Havana Province, Cuba.Sandoval, while still in Cuba, was influenced by jazz legends Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie, finally meeting Dizzy later in 1977....
 have all performed at the annual event set in foot of the Colorado Rockies.

Modern Guitar Magazine in its February 1, 2006 edition stated "Earl Klugh is considered by many to be one of the finest acoustic guitar players today."

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