Image from website with permission from Nathan Borton.

From website with permission from Nathan Borton.

Nathan Borton Quartet

2019 Aug 2, Friday
6:00 – 6:30
7:45 – 8:15
9:30 – 10:00
Turnaround Lounge

“Hailing from Wichita, Kansas, Nathan Borton is a Michigan based Jazz guitar player that draws heavily from the mid-western tradition of bebop and the blues. His studies and performances have taken him across the United States from Brevard, North Carolina to East Lansing, Michigan, and everywhere in-between. Nathan served as the Teaching Assistant for the nationally acclaimed Jazz Studies program at Michigan State University under the direction of Rodney Whitaker durning his Graduate Degree. There he studied guitar under the tutelage of the great Randy Napoleon.

Nathan is also an avid educator of music. He currently teaches at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI and at the Jazz and Creative Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan under the direction of Benje and Ashley Daneman. JCI was most recently featured in Downbeat magazine. Nathan has also taught and mentored at various camps around the nation such as: The Brevard Jazz Institute in Brevard, North Carolina and The Spectrum Music Camp in East Lansing, Michigan. Nathan was also involved in the “Welcome Home Tour” with the Sencalar/Glassman Quintet as a part of an educational outreach to East Lansing public schools.”

This performance includes:

Seth Abersole – Sax
Javier Enrique – Bass
Michael Reed – Percussion

Website: https://nathanborton.com