Steve Raleigh is a guitarist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator who makes his home in New York’s Hudson Valley, where he teaches at his home studio in New Paltz, serves as an adjunct music professor at Bard College, SUNY New Paltz, and SUNY Dutchess County, and owns and operates LWR Productions Recording Studio. He completed his Master of Music Education at Boston University in 2011, and for more than two decades he has been a proud endorser of D’Addario strings and accessories. His studies include work with John Scofield, Bill Connors, Arthur Rhames, Jack Wilkins, and Barry Galbraith, as well as attendance at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York, in 1980.

Throughout his career, Raleigh has performed and toured with a wide range of groups and artists, including his own Steve Raleigh Trio, his quintet Inner Door, Judi Silvano, October Project, Evelyn Blakey, Nick Brignola, Darmon Meader of New York Voices, Clint Holmes, Pete Levin, Ira Coleman, Adam Nussbaum, and Tony Martin, and has opened for Chuck Mangione and Tommy James, among others. As a producer, he has been credited as assistant producer on two CD releases on the Evidence label featuring Pharoah Sanders and Sam Rivers, and has produced numerous records including two Charles Lyonhart albums on his own LWR Productions imprint. Bard He has appeared at venues such as Eisenhower Hall at West Point, the first Storm King Art Center Jazz Festival, and legendary New York clubs including the Rainbow Room, Glen Island Casino, and the Joyous Lake.

Raleigh’s guitar playing has drawn high praise from critics and peers alike. Guitar World columnist Mike Varney described him as “a more fusiony Jeff Beck” with a “brilliant sense of melody” Bard, while critics have compared his work to George Benson and Wes Montgomery and noted the “exciting emotional depth” and “soulful and scintillating” quality of his music. He has had a solo guitar arrangement published in Just Jazz Guitar Magazine, released the solo CD Collage in 2001, a recording with his jazz quartet Inner Door in 2003 featuring seven original compositions, the holiday album A Christmas Present in 2005, and a live CD with his band The Llama Dollies in 2007. Between teaching, recording, and performing, Raleigh continues to be one of the Hudson Valley’s most active and respected jazz musicians.