Alex Belhaj

Alex Belhaj is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he led his own Crescent City Quartet in addition to playing folk music and original music.  He also worked with the James Dapogny Quartet, the Cakewalkin' Jass Band and guitarist Joe Summers before moving to New Orleans in 2015.

In the Crescent City, Alex works frequently with Duke Heitger, Steve Pistorius, Tim Laughlin, the Riverside Jazz Collective and Hal Smith's On The Levee Jazz Band, to name a few.  Alex is an outstanding interpreter of vintage Jazz guitar stylists like Johnny St. Cyr and Kid Ory's longtime sideman Bud Scott.