Fareed Haque

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Name = Fareed Haque


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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
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Born = 1963
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Instrument = Guitar
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Occupation = Musician, professor
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Label = Blue Note, Owl Studios
Associated_acts = Garaj Mahal
URL = [http://www.fareed.com/ www.fareed.com]

Fareed Haque (born 1963) is a fusion guitar virtuoso of Pakistani and Chilean descent.

He is renowned for balancing classical and jazz styles his jam band collaborations including, but not limited to, ones with Paquito D'Rivera, Dave Holland, Sting, Joe Henderson, Lester Bowie, Arturo Sandoval, Robert Walter, Keller Williams, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Kahil el Zabar, Defunckt, Ramsey Lewis, Gabe Noel and more recently with George Brooks on "Summit" and Garaj Mahal.

Haque received the 'Most Valuable Player' award at the 2002 High Sierra Music Festival.

He is now a professor of Jazz and Classical Guitar Studies at Northern Illinois University. Fareed's notable students include Bradley Fish.

Discography

*"Voices Rising" (1988)
*"The Poet" (1988)
*"Manresa" (1989)
*"Sacred Addiction" (1993)
*"Opaque" (1995)
*"Déjà Vu" (1996)
*"Macedonian Blues" (2001)

External links

* [http://www.fareed.com Fareed Haque official site]