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Bob De Vos
Biography
There's a heavy blues and soul element in the jazz guitar stylings of Bob DeVos. He can't help it, as many of his formative years in Paterson, N.J. were spent performing with groups influenced by B.B. King, Otis Redding, James Brown and other classic blues and classic rhythm and blues performers. While no one in DeVos' family played a musical instrument, he was influenced in his youth by his parents' and older brother's record collections, which included Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra as well as King Curtis, B.B. King, Chuck Berry and other pioneers of rock ‘n' roll.



Shortly after making his professional debut playing blues and classic rhythm and blues, New Jersey-based DeVos discovered pure jazz stylists like Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Jim Hall and Pat Martino. In his early 20's, he chose jazz over rock, realizing he needed more chord changes and the freedom of expression that jazz and soul jazz offered. In the 1980's, 1990's and into the new millennium, DeVos' guitar style in various groups he's led could best be described as an artful blend of blues, classic rhythm and blues and straight-ahead jazz.

DeVos began playing guitar in the 1960's and was a student of legendary guitar teachers Harry Leahy and Dennis Sandole.
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