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Tom Guarna (November 27, 1967 in Brooklyn ) is an American modern jazz guitarist and composer.

Biography
Grammy-nominated guitarist, composer and arranger Tom Guarna began his musical studies at age fifteen, rapidly demonstrating a natural ability to play and compose. After studying classical guitar and composition at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in 1986, he played local gigs in New York and fine-tuned his education with John Abercrombie. He earned a Bachelor Degree from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in 2008, and a Master’s Degree at The Juilliard School in 2010.

After working with several jazz bands, he joined Blood Sweat and Tears in 1995 and toured extensively with them for the next three years. Since then, he has forged his own voice as a modern jazz guitarist, performing with a wide range of artists including Wallace Roney, Stanley Clarke, Mark Turner, Branford Marsalis, Randy Brecker, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Mulgrew Miller, Fred Wesley, Mike Clark, Uri Caine, The Allman Brothers, The Yellowjackets, and Gary Bartz.

Guarna has toured five continents with his own quartets and as a top sideman in several exciting groups led by Lenny White, E.J. Strickland, and Les McCann. He was a featured artist on over thirty albums, and composed “If You Dare,” a funk-rock song on Lenny White's 2010 Anomaly CD. Guarna also toured the United States with pianist Manuel Valera, after playing on the Grammy Award-nominated 2012 album, New Cuban Express.

As composer and leader, Guarna has recorded: Get Together(2005), Out from the Underground (2007), Wingspan (2008), Major Minor (2009), Bittersweet (2011), and the hard-grooving Rush (2014), which garnered wide acclaim. His seventh album, The Wishing Stones (2017), featuring an all-star quartet of drummer Brian Blade, bassist John Patitucci and pianist Jon Cowherd, was lauded a 4-star rating in DownBeat Magazine.

Discography

 * Get Together (SteepleChase, 2003), with Gary Versace (o), Mark Ferber (d)
 * Out from the Underground (SteepleChase, 2006), with George Colligan, John Benitez (b), EJ Strickland
 * Wingspan (SteepleChase, 2007), with Joel Frahm, Paul Gill (b), Willie Jones III (d)
 * Major Minor (SteepleChase, 2008), with Peter Zak, Dwayne Burno , Billy Drummond
 * Bittersweet (SteepleChase, 2010), with Peter Zak, Paul Gill, Willie Jones III
 * Rush (Brooklyn Jazz Underground, 2014 ), with Joel Frahm, Danny Grissett, Orlando le Fleming (b), Jonathan Blake (d)
 * The Wishing Stones (Destiny, 2017), featuring Jon Cowherd, John Patitucci , Brian Blade