Jaye Foucher is a potent, dazzling guitar player from Waltham, Massachusetts (U.S.A.) who expresses her style as progressive, funky, bluesy, instrumental hard rock, as one can appreciate on her latest album, "Contagious Grooves".  Her favorite guitar is a Jackson Dinky model ("Customized for me"). Foucher has played guitar since 1984, and candidly avows her career aspiration, "Well gee, I'd love to be rich and famous, but I'll settle for famous and making a living playing original music. So that means I'll have another few albums out (either on a label or on my own), hopefully a clinic tour or two under my belt, a much bigger fan base, and MAN I hope to hell I have some major management by then!"
When asked to name her number one effect for the guitar, Foucher answered back with, "Delay," and then cited her musicial goals, "I try to write songs that are interesting and fun and have melodies that a person could sing along with. And I write solos that fit the song--not ones that are merely a showcase for my technical abilities." She hopes to one day study jazz, and is at this time listening to Sevendust, Dream Theater ("their older albums though"), Stone Temple Pilots, Creed and Alanis Morissette. Her utmost fulfillment? "When someone tells me that they listen to my CD over and over again because they love it so much and it's their favorite CD," she affirms unquestionably.
 Foucher details continuing and future undertakings in her own words, "Lately I seem to spend my musical day trying to keep my in-box from overflowing. Seems I spend more time on the business end of things than on playing--which really bothers me! On the playing side, I'm writing new material for the next album and I'm also trying to put together a second band with this really incredible songwriter/vocalist I know--a very different project than my instrumental stuff, one that's more song and vocal oriented. But I plan to continue doing the instrumental music as well."
Guitar Nine Records visitors have compared the playing style and/or musical approach of Jaye Foucher to guitarists such as John Petrucci and others.
Foucher's discography (available here at Guitar Nine Records) includes several solo albums ("Infectious Licks", "Contagious Grooves").
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