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J<\/firstletter>OE LOCOCO was born in Buffalo, New York.\u00a0 He started taking guitar lessons at the age of 12 from a local Buffalo Music teacher who had been a student of Andres Segovia. Growing up in the midst of a flourishing Music Scene, Joe was a motivated student and spent many cold winters indoors as a kid practicing guitar and honing his craft. Taking advantage of every opportunity to play with some of the great Buffalo Musicians, Joe learned to play blues, jazz and rock & roll. It was in Buffalo that he began to make a living as a musician.<\/p>\n

In the late 70\u2019s Joe moved to San Francisco and became established over time as a guitarist\/sideman\/bandleader and vocalist.\u00a0 He\u2019s played thousands of gigs with hundreds of different bands, learning the business side of music, dealing with agents and club owners, booking, promoting and putting great bands together for special occasions.\u00a0 He\u2019s played on many records, including his own solo release, \u201cSmokin\u201d released in 2019.<\/p>\n

As a seasoned pro, Joe Lococo, is highly respected by his peers as a sideman and bandleader.\u00a0 He currently plays regularly in a number of bands, including residencies at San Francisco Saloon with the late Johnny Nitro\u2019s Door Slammers, Lucky Strike, and the Lisa Kindred Band.\u00a0 Joe was a member of the legendary saxophonist Jules Broussard (Carlos Santana, Van Morrison) Band for over 15 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  JOE LOCOCO was born in Buffalo, New York.\u00a0 He started taking guitar lessons at the age of 12 from a local Buffalo Music teacher who had been a student of Andres Segovia. Growing up in the midst of a flourishing Music Scene, Joe was a motivated student and spent many cold winters indoors as a kid practicing guitar and honing his craft. Taking advantage of every opportunity to play with some of the great Buffalo Musicians, Joe learned to play blues, jazz and rock & roll. It was in Buffalo that he began to make a living as a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-parts\/page-template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelococo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelococo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelococo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelococo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelococo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelococo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelococo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}