Zachary Breaux

USA

Born: 26 June 1960

Died: 27 February 1997

Years Active: 90

Genres: Jazz, Easy Listening

Styles: Soul Jazz, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz/Groove, Post-Bop, Modal Music, Crossover Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion, Smooth Jazz, Instrumental Pop, Easy Listening

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Influenced by George Benson and Wes Montgomery, Zachary Breaux was a flexible guitarist who could handle soul-jazz, post-bop and hard bop as well as more commercial pop-jazz and NAC music. Though the jazzman only recorded a handful of albums--including 1992's Groovin' and 1994's Laidback, both on NYC, and Uptown Groove on Zebra--he kept busy as a sideman in the 1980s and 1990s and backed such major artists as Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, Donald Byrd, Lonnie Liston Smith and Dee Dee Bridgewater. It was in 1984 that he met vibist/singer Roy A...

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