JASON QUICK
Jazz Guitarist/Bandleader/Composer/Producer/Musician/Educator
PROFILE
Jason Quick is a guitarist, bandleader, composer, and educator based out of Toledo, Ohio. Quick’s namesake Trios and Quartets have featured original jazz music performances in an array of venues in Toledo, Detroit, Lansing, Ypsilanti, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Louisville and more. Festival appearances in Grand Rapids, OH, Grand Haven, MI, Defiance, Columbus, Carmel, IN. Quick Trio performance history includes a 3 year monthly third Saturday residency at Wesley’s Bar. Quick Quartet plays packed house performances at Toledo’s newest jazz listening room, Lucille’s Jazz Lounge. Longtime players on the Toledo music scene, Quick and his ensembles are known for memorable performances at Toledo Museum of Art, Crosby Festival of the Arts, and the Toledo Botanical Garden’s Jazz in the Garden series. As a composer and recording artist, he has written music in jazz, classical, rock, as a singer/songwriter and collaborator.
CONTACT
PHONE:
419 283-5286
WEBSITE:
https://www.jasonquickmusic.com
EMAIL:
jason@jasonquickmusic.com
EDUCATION
Creative and Performing Arts High School, Churchill High School, Livonia, MI
Jazz band, daily rehearsals and numerous outside of school performances, theory classes, private lessons, spring musicals.
Stevenson High School, Livonia, MI
Diploma earned. Jazz big band participation.
Wayne State University 1991 - 1995
Bachelor’s degree in jazz studies, played and traveled with WSU Jazz Big Band, arranged music for big band, 5 guitars, 5 saxophones, various ensembles,
Bowling Green State University 1996- 1998
Completed master’s degree in guitar performances, composed piece for solo piano that was performed at the BGSU New Music Festival, wrote and performed original jazz music for recitals, given a graduate assistantship in order to attend.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Musician for Hire
Guitarist, Electric Bass as a sideman/hired gun. Small venues, outdoor shows, different locations also based in Toledo, Ohio music scene, various genres.
Private Lesson Guitar Instructor
Teaching beginning guitar players as well as more advanced students
Composer/Songwriter
Jazz music, singer-songwriter, classical concert music, string quartet premier performance in 2019.
Bandleader
Guitarist and composer handling creative direction, arranging, booking, musician hiring, fee negotiating, promotion, grant writing.
RECORDINGS OF ORIGINAL WORK
Jason has self-produced several recordings of his original material in jazz and rock:
• Get What’s Comin’ by Quick Trio (2025)
• Low Rent Space by Quick Quartet (2021)
• Amateur Mind Control by Quickness (2018)
• A Few More Seconds by Quick Kreuz Bartolomeo (2015)
• Trio Toledo by Quick Kreuz Knurek (2013)
• The Avocado by Quickness for Old West End Records (2010)
• Get Used by Jason Quick (2006)
Special Programs
2019 Creative Musicians Retreat The Walden School
Alternative Guitar Summit Camp, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
Grants Received
Accelerator Grant 2022
Cycle 3 Grant 2024
TLC ARPA Grant 2025
Quick Trio/Quartet notable venues
Lucille’s Jazz Lounge Toledo
“Jazz Tuesdays” performance at Moriarty’s Pub, Lansing
Hillside Winery, Gilboa, OH
Cliff Bell’s, Detroit
Ginger Rabbit, Columbus
Treelawn Social Club, Cleveland
Ziggy’s, Ypsilanti
Jimmy Can’t Dance, Lousiville KY
NOLA on the Square, Pittsburgh, PA
Monthly at Brewhouse Downtown, Toledo 2024
3-year monthly residency at Wesley’s Bar, Toledo 2021-23
5-year monthly residency at Ye Olde Durty Bird, Toledo 2015-2020
3-year bi-monthly residency at Manhattan’s, Toledo 2012-2015
Notable Festivals Performed
2025 Sunset Jazz Festival, Grand Rapids, OH
2025 Walk the Beat Festival, Grand Haven, MI
Crosby Festival of the Arts, Toledo Botanical Gardens, 2017-2025
Jazz in the Garden, Toledo Botanical Gardens. multiple years
Columbus Jazz and Ribs Festival
Defiance Jazz Festival
Jazz on the Monon, Carmel, IN
Credits as a sideman
Jeff Tucker Band
Stonehouse
Vytas and His Electric Outfit
Lisa Lynn
Sideman Discography
· People & Places by Jeff Tucker and On the Beach (2002) – Bass, Guitar, Organ, Songwriter
· “Box on the Wall” from Rock and Roll Soul by Jeff Tucker (2017) - Guitar
· Space Cadet by Vytas & His Electric Outfit (2008) – Bass, Guitar
· Taking My Secrets to the Grave by Lisa Lynn (2010) – Songwriter, Guitar, Mandolin
· Back Again by Stonehouse (2012) - Bass
· This Song is about You by Stonehouse (2015) – Bass
Private lesson teaching venues:
LOMS Music, Bowling Green, OH 1998-99
Ursula Caufiel School of Music, Toledo 1999-2000
Mars Music, Springfield, OH 2002-2002
Maumee Valley Country Day School 2002-2003
Private studio, Toledo 2003-2004
Forte School of Music 2006-2010
Teach out of home 2010-present
College Teaching
Bowling Green State University – Graduate Assistant 1998-99
Beginning and Intermediate Guitar classes
Owens Community College 2001-2002
Beginning and Intermediate Guitar, World Music, History of Rock