Doug Munro is a critically acclaimed New York-based jazz guitarist. Since 1986 he has released 19 albums as a leader and has appeared on over 100 recordings as a sideman, producer, and arranger, working with artists like Dr. John, Michael Brecker, and Dr. Lonnie Smith. He has over 75 published compositions and over 300 recorded arrangements to his credit.

In the recording field, Doug has received two Grammy nominations and two NAIRD awards.

His 2011 release, A Very Gypsy Christmas was a top 5 pick by the Wall Street Journal. Amazon.com picked Boogaloo to Beck, which he arranged, co-produced, and on which he played, as a Top Ten Jazz CD of 2003. Doug also did orchestration on the Oscar-winning documentary film When We Were Kings. His latest CD released in 2017, The Harry Warren Songbook, has received rave reviews and is still receiving strong airplay.

He has written four books on jazz improvisation for Warner Brothers Publications and Alfred Music Publications, including one entitled, From Swing to Bebop, which won the Music and Sound Retailers instructional book of the year award in 2000. His latest book, The Total Latin Guitarist (Alfred Publishing) was released in 2010.

Doug now writes exclusively for online publications and instructional websites. He contributes guitar instruction articles for Premier Guitar magazine and is a teaching/artist contributor for TrueFire.com where he has two online instructional courses and his own dedicated subscriber channel called Doug Munro’s Guitar Garage.

Munro created and directed the Jazz Studies Program at The Conservatory of Music at Purchase College in 1993 and is now Professor Emeritus. He has been an artist/instructor at the Litchfield Jazz Camp as a teaching artist since 2009.

Having worked with a veritable Who’s Who of Jazz and Soul artists, Doug has garnered high praise from both his fellow artists and the press. Dr. Lonnie Smith said of him, “Doug Munro…well he can flat out play!”

Ernie Sites is a long-time national touring singer/songwriter specializing in Country music. Doug Munro is a twice Gammy nominated guitarist specializing in swing and Bossa Nova. The two met through a “guitar for sale” posting on Reverb.com. By chance it turned out they both lived in the same town. They met and started getting together regularly to jam on songs covering a wide range of popular styles from Johhny Cash to the Grateful Dead. They soon realized they had something special. Please join us for their live debut, playing a style they call Country Fusion.