Glenn Rexach

In the forest of guitar players that is Austin, Tx., Rexach stands apart. His blistering jazz-funk-Latin-blues originals redefine the concept of a Texas guitar slinger. Long a fixture on the Austin music scene, Glenn Rexach has been a first call guitarist for years. His group, the Glenn Rexach Group, which features Rexach’s intricate compositions. has opened for guitarist Scott Henderson, drum legend Billy Cobham, and has performed at the  JazzAlive Jazz Festival, the Wobeon Jazz Fusion Festival, the Jazz on Main Festival, and various venues throughout Texas. 

Rexach has also been teaching guitar for almost 45 years, and many of his arrangements started out as pieces for his students. He has an in depth understanding of the guitar and is able to use that knowledge in his arrangements, ranging in difficulty from beginner level to intermediate/advanced.

He is also the guitarist for the Jacqui Walker Band (blues), Six Sons of a Gun (country), has been a member of the Austin Jazz Workshop (introduces Jazz to 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders in the entire AISD) for the last 30 years,  Jazz PR (Salsa), and is on the praise and worship team at Bethany Lutheran Church. His performing credits include: jazz sax great Eddie Harris,  Eddie Palmieri, Buddy Emmons, the Creative Opportunity Jazz Orchestra, Malford Milligan, Brannen Temple's Atomic Soul, Just Released, Helen Sung, Jr. Medlow and the Bad Boys, Eliza Gilkyson, Dr. James Polk, Tony Campise, Hank Hehmsoth, violin and oud virtuoso Simon Shaheen, La Tribu, Ta Mere, Orchesta Tropicante, Jazz P.R., the Samba Police, Strings Attached, Gary Clark Jr., Carolyn Wonderland, Rotel and the Hot Tomatoes, Lisa Tingle, Atash,  and many others. 

He currently has 3 recordings under his own name, RoundTrip (out of print), Living Joe to Joe, and the group's most recent release, PanaRican (a tribute to his Puerto Rican and Panamanian heritage).