b. 15 April 1955, Akron, Ohio, USA. Golub was already an accomplished guitarist when he attended Boston’s Berklee College Of Music. At the end of the 70s he settled in New York City where he was invited to join Billy Squier’s band. In addition to appearing on several albums, this engagement also resulted in three world tours. Aside from his work with Squier, Golub was also in demand as a session player and sideman, and he supported artists such as Tina Turner, Vanessa Williams and Rod Stewart. Golub worked with Stewart for eight years but in 1988 made his solo record debut, Unspoken Words. He left Stewart’s band in 1994 and formed his own contemporary jazz group, Avenue Blue. The following year, Golub toured with pianist Bob James, appearing on the Grammy-nominated Joined At The Hip with James and Kirk Whalum. After three acclaimed albums with Avenue Blue for Bluemoon Records, Golub returned to his solo career with Out Of The Blue, on which he blended progressive blues-inflected instrumentals with engagingly soulful ballads of which the single, ‘The Velvet Touch’, proved to be especially attractive. A later move to GRP Records found his eclecticism in full flow as he drew upon many aspects of popular music while simultaneously revealing an awareness of the ‘less is more’ characteristic of many jazzmen of earlier generations. Golub’s fluid playing, ranging from the gracefully limpid to the fiercely storming, is ably complemented by his imaginative musical concepts. These qualities have allowed him to move from his rock and blues roots into the contemporary jazz scene with considerable success, authority and élan.
