Guitarist · Educator
Storm Nilson is an electric and acoustic guitarist, educator, and recording engineer. Over a career spanning nearly three decades, he has performed internationally as a solo artist and collaborator.
As an educator, Storm has taught at Stanford University, Cornell University, California Institute of the Arts, and McGill University, among many other schools, clinics, and workshops across the United States and Canada.
Learn more about Storm in his recent interview with Jazz Guitar Today
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Storm Nilson · Solo guitar
Home tells a story about American music and the personal and professional journey behind it. The record brings jazz together with rural American music, connecting Storm’s geographical past with the experiences and influences gathered through a musical life across the continent.
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Storm Nilson · Adam Benjamin
Red Oak Duo is the sound of the modern American West: rural landscapes and one-stoplight towns, suburban sprawl, freeways, strip malls, rugged coastlines, volcanic rock, alpine lakes, and dry arroyos. Adam Benjamin and Storm Nilson compose original music drawn from their experiences in these places, bringing Americana into contact with abstraction, technology, and pastoralia.
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Storm Nilson · Adam Benjamin · Jason Harnell
This evocative trio blends jazz, Americana, and free improvisation into a sonic gumbo that is a feast for any music lover. Jazz Goes Up was recorded at Sam First in Los Angeles and features Storm Nilson with pianist Adam Benjamin and drummer Jason Harnell.
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Nicolás Kello · Storm Nilson
Anemoia is a collaboration with Storm’s longtime friend Nick Kello, featuring a collection of music by some of the great Brazilian and Mexican composers of the 20th century. Storm plays nylon-string and archtop guitars and mixed and mastered the album.
Where or When
Live at the Baked Potato
Tennessee Waltz
I’ll Be Seeing You
When You Wish Upon a Star