2019 New Mexico Music Award winners for best jazz CD, Music For The Sole, Bob Gusch, Dan Dowling and John Griffin, have teamed up to play some classic and contemporary jazz, swing, blues, and bossa nova and are a big hit with the swing dance crowd. Seven-string guitarist Dan Dowling is a veteran jazz and blues musician who has been performing in combos ranging in size from duo to big band for the last three decades. Dan was one of the five finalists in the Heritage International Jazz Guitar Competition of 1996, and was named “Best Unsigned Blues Artist.”