Welcome to the website of Los Angeles based guitarist, Steve Gregory.
Steve has toured extensively with the "legendary genius of soul" Ray Charles, pop icon Frankie Valli, and Chanteuse Anjani with her frequent guest the poetic Leonard Cohen. He has performed at Exit Zero, and Playboy Jazz Festivals with Maceo Parker, toured the mid east with Alphonse Mouzon and toured California with Gordon Goodwin's Phat Band. He has had occasion to perform live with a number of great and varied artists including Macy Gray, Michael Buble, Patti Austin, Heather Headley, Stacie Orrico, Diane Reeves, John Daversa, Thelma Houston, Billy Vera and the Beaters, and many others.
As a studio guitarist, Steve has recorded music for numerous television shows and films, as well as with a wide range of artists for album projects.
As a composer and producer, Steve has contributed music to several television shows.
For more detailed credits, check out the music page.
Check out my new record, Frolic
featuring:
Jeff, Babko - keys
Eric Sittner - bass
Ray Brinker - drums
At the crossroads of funk, soul, country, and blues we find Steve Gregory’s delicate debut Frolic. A collection of lighter-than-air instrumentals that blend extraordinary tightness withtalent, vision, and pure musical joy, Frolic is an utter pleasure to experience, from start to the very end. . .
Frolic is easily among the best things I’ve heard all year. A collection of instrumentals thatleft me satisfied and comforted, Steve Gregory and company are an efficient bunch that arein perfect control of their craft. Their musicianship is thoroughly lovely and theprofessionalism that they bring with them knows no bound. An album of space leftintentionally by each member of the group to be adequately filled by input from others, analbum of experienced performances that give each composition exactly what it needs, nomore and no less, an album of beautiful sounds that are as beautifully put together as theyare beautifully played, recorded, and produced, Frolic is a thoroughly pleasant experience.
MOATAZ GWAILY, Rock Era MagazineI
In an unshowy fashion, he demonstrates complete mastery of the guitar across 12 self-penned tracks. These range from laidback ballads to driving rock, interspersed with shades of country, blues and – in places – disco, soul and new age. Working with some first-rate colleagues, Gregory seems completely at home across these assorted styles, making the album an impressive testimony to his versality and virtuosity. Jeff Babko offers standout accompaniment on organ and synthesizer, and where guitar and keyboards meet, there is often a Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler vibe to the atmosphere and phrasing of the music.
Gregory’s work for television has clearly honed his skill at telling stories through sound, as several of the compositions would be right at home as film or TV incidental themes. Some albums have an instant connection and likeability about them, and Frolic is certainly one of those. One of the most enjoyable listens of 2025 so far, if there is one complaint it is that at 46 minutes it is too short. Let us hope Steve Gregory is planning more frolics in the not-too-distant future.
JOHN ADCOCK, Jazz Journal UK