Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Toronto-based Jazz Guitarist & Composer David Occhipinti. We talk about his brand-new 2025 album Camera Lucida and his remarkable journey through music.

This new recording features eight original compositions blending chamber music textures and jazz guitar improvisations with some of Canada’s finest musicians. David’s 2012 Camera Ensemble recording was praised by his mentor Jim Hall as “an absolute gem.”

Over his career, David has been nominated for multiple Juno Awards and has toured extensively across Canada, Europe, and Japan. Dive into this thoughtful conversation about creativity, collaboration, and the evolving sound of modern jazz.

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Joe Dimino has been writing & creating in a variety of capacities since his college days at the University of Missouri-Kansas City somewhere around 1993. If you are keeping score, that would be about 29 years+. It all began at UMKCs University News as a Sports Writer & turned into a myriad of expressive avenues. Inventing poems, art, video & audio has always been in the proverbial cards.