Ricardo Grilli

Ricardo Grilli is a Brazilian-born guitarist based in New York, known for a post-bop style that folds in the harmonic ambition and textures of progressive rock. Born in 1985 in São Paulo, he studied at the Berklee College of Music before completing a master's degree in jazz studies at New York University, settling in New York in 2012. His 2013 debut, If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, was named a best debut in NPR's Francis Davis Critics Poll, and he followed it with a pair of albums named for his parents' birth years, 1954 (2016) and 1962 (2020). Grilli has led his own groups at rooms including the Blue Note, Smalls, and Mezzrow, and has worked alongside players such as Chris Potter, Mark Turner, Aaron Parks, Eric Harland, and Kendrick Scott.