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“Fire in velvet. A fitting description of Joshua Breakstone’s jazz guitar,” wrote Paul Weidman in The Santa Fe New Mexican. “His flowing lines on up-tempo cookers are impeccably clean and fiery, bearing the mark of a first-rate improviser, while his chordal work on heartbreaker ballads is the final word in finesse,” raved Guitar Player Magazine.

Japan’s Jazz Hihyo (Jazz Critique) notes that “The style in which Joshua develops his fluid single-note solos used to be thought of as the Grant Green school, but now this man leads the school.”

In Masters of Jazz Guitar, Charles Alexander writes: “With a firm grasp of the bebop language, Breakstone nevertheless avoids its clichés, instead unfolding a storyline in his solos, all the while building interest with economical, elegant lines and sustaining longer notes with a clear, rounded guitar sound.”

Steve Day wrote in sandybrownjazz.co.uk that “Joshua Breakstone is a fabulously exciting player to listen to.”

With 24 recordings as a leader, featuring such jazz greats as Kenny Barron, Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Pepper Adams, Jimmy Knepper, Jack McDuff, Mickey Roker and Al Harewood, Breakstone tours four to five times each year throughout Japan, annually across Europe, as well as in Australia and across the United States.

Joshua is also the author of Jazz Etudes: Studies for the Beginning Improviser (Hal Leonard Publishing), and has performed and presented workshops around the world.

His first recording, Wonderful, featuring legendary pianist Barry Harris, will be re-released in 2026.

As Eric Harabadian wrote in Jazz Inside (February 2014), “Breakstone is, simply, a tasteful and melodic master.”