Diego Figueiredo who plays Hillsborough Community College in Ybor City, Florida on Feb. 4. 2024. Credit: Stephen Splane c/o Tampa Jazz Club

Seasoned Tampa Bay area jazz fans are familiar with Brazilian guitarist Diego Figueiredo, who’s a frequent visitor here.

His virtuoustic blend of bossa nova, jazz and classical aesthetics has been the hallmark of his nearly two dozen albums as bandleader and even led genre icon George Benson to call the Grammy-nominee “one of the greatest guitarists I’ve seen in my whole life.”

Diego Figueiredo headlines this Tampa Jazz Club matinee on Sunday, Feb. 4 inside Mainstage Theatre at Hillsborough Community College in Ybor City, and tickets start at $10.

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This article appears in Feb 1-7, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...