Whos Who Jazz Guitarists COMPLETE

8/18/2019 Whos Who Jazz Guitarists COMPLETE

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Barney Kessel

Date of Birth: October 17, 1923-May 6., 2004

Place of Birth: Muskogee, OklahomaSchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 21Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

A "first call" guitarist at Columbia Pictures, during the 1960s Kessel be-came one of the most in-demand session guitarists in America, and is con-sidered a key member of the group of first-call session musicians nowusually known as The Wrecking Crew. In this capacity he played on hun-dreds of famous pop recordings including albums and singles by PhilSpector, The Beach Boys, The Monkees and many others. He appeared inan acting part playing a jazz guitarist named "Barney" in one episode ofthe Perry MasonTV show. He also wrote and arranged the source music,including a jazz version of "Here Comes the Bride", provided by the jazzcombo that figured in the story. In 1961 The Gibson Guitar Corpora-tion introduced The Barney Kessel model guitar onto the market and con-tinued to make them until 1973. One custom instrument Kessel playedwas essentially a 12-string guitar neck attached to a mandolin body(similar to Vox's mando guitar), which may have been played on the introto The Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice." During the 1970s, Kessel pre-sented his seminar 'The Effective Guitarist' in various locations around theworld. Kessel died of a brain tumor in San Diego, California. He had been

in poor health after suffering a stroke in 1992 .

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Bucky Pizzarelli

Date of Birth: January 9, 1926

Place of Birth: Paterson, New JerseySchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 10Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

John 'Bucky' Pizzarelli began his professional career in 1943 at 17 yearsold playing in the Vaughn Monroe dance band. He toured and recordedwith Monroe through 1951, and in 1952 he joined NBC as a staff musician.

At NBC, for many years, he played in the Doc Severinson Band on the To-night Show. He also toured and recorded with Benny Goodman into the1980's. In New York, Pizzarelli worked mainly as a freelance musician inthe studios and he appeared on many recordings as part of the rhythmsection. One of the era's most solid rhythm players, Pizzarelli was in highdemand to provide propulsion and background for other musicians. His re-cordings as leader began to appear in the 1970's with recordings like-Green Guitar Blues. On this recording Pizzarelli established a pattern herepeated throughout his career. That is, playing and recording some of thegreat historic guitar compositions from the 1930's. On this recording hepays homage to Carl Kress and Dick McDonough by including Chicken ALa Swing. A few years later he paid tribute to these two guitarists again onhis Guitar Quintet LP. On April Kisses from 1999, he includes original mu-

sic by Carl Kress, George Van Eps and George M. Smith. His extraordi-

nary skill as a rhythm player places him in the company of thegreat rhythm players like Freddie Greene and Barry Galbraith.And he has brought forward the great chord solo tradition begunby George Van Eps and Dick McDonough. Like George Van Eps,Bucky Pizzarelli adopted the seven-string electric guitar. BuckyPizzarelli, was considered the only guitarist next to George VanEps, to play the seven-string electric guitar exclusively.


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Frank Vignola

Date of Birth: December 30, 1965

Place of Birth: Long Island, NYSchools Attended: Culture Arts Center ofLong IslandTeachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 11Currently Touring? Yes

Youtube: Yes

Vignola began on guitar at age five. While he never listened to jazz exclu-sively, he has a wide range of influences, such as Les Paul, Eddie VanHalen and Frank Zappa. He later studied at the Cultural Arts Center ofLong Island. He worked extensively as a sideman in the 1980s, with artistssuch as Madonna, Leon Redbone, and Ringo Starr. In 1993 he signedwith Concord Jazz, when he was 27 and has released several albums un-der his own name since then. He has written 18 instructional guitar books

and has recorded multiple instuctional CD-ROMs for Truefire.com. In1988 with his famed Hot Club of France tribute which was hailed in the NYTimes as one of the top ten acts in New York City in 1988 and forged theway for the many Django Hot Club groups that followed. The early 2000'sfound Vignola recording a solo guitar CD for Acoustic Disc as well as per-forming regularly with guitarist, Les Paul.


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George Van Eps

Date of Birth: August,1913-November,1998

Place of Birth:Schools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 34Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

During those 62 documented years he made hundreds of recordings assideman, but only a handful under his own name. And those he made rela-tively late in his career. Yet, despite this meager output as leading artist,George Van Eps has been revered by every guitar player to come afterhim. What he did to deserve this acclaim was to single handily create awhole new way to play jazz guitar that brought a complexity, depth andbeauty to the instrument that it didn't have before. In the late 1950's andearly 1960's he made a series of solo recordings for Columbia and Capitolthat featured the unique guitar style of George Van Eps. The first of theserecordings was Mellow Guitar , followed by My Guitar, Seven String Gui-tar and Soliloquy. If George Van Eps had not made another recording,this series of recordings would have secured the Van Eps legend. But,then in the 1990's he made a series of brilliant recordings for ConcordRecords with Howard Alden that made his music accessible to a wholenew generation of jazz lovers. And, once again earned the complete admi-ration of a whole new generation of guitarists. Epiphone made him a seven-string guitar in 1938, he began displaying the depth, richness and complex-

ity that are the hallmarks of the Van Eps sound. The first major recordingswith this new instrument were the Jump recordings from the mid 1940's.

The solos recorded at that time like I Wrote It For Joand Kay's Fanta-sy and Tea For Two have Van Eps playing bass, melody and supporting

chords all himself all at the same time. Van Eps is known as the “Father ofthe Seven-String Guitar”


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Grant Green

Date of Birth: June 6, 1935-January 31, 1979

Place of Birth: St. Louis, MOSchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 98Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

Grant Green left St. Louis and moved to New York City in 1959. Througha connection, he met the management of Blue Note records. Blue Notesigned Green in 1960. From 1961 to 1965, Grant made more appearanc-es on Blue Note LPs, as leader or sideman, than anyone else. Grant's firstissued album as a leader was Grant's First Stand . This was followed in thesame year by Green Street and Grantstand . Grant was named best newstar in the Down Beat critics' poll, 1962, and, as a result, his influencespread wider than New York. He often provided support to the other im-portant musicians on Blue Note. In 1966 Grant left Blue Note and record-ed for several other labels, including Verve. From 1967 to 1969 Grant was,for the most part, inactive due to personal problems and the effectsof heroin addiction. In 1969 Grant returned with a new funk-influencedband. His recordings from this period include the commercially success-ful Green is Beautiful and the soundtrack to the film The Final Comedown. Grant was also a huge influence on guitarists, from George Benson to Ste-vie Ray Vaughan. Still to this day guitarists try to get his signature sound,Idle Moments is consider one of the top 100 jazz albums of all time. Grant

left Blue Note again in 1974 and the subsequent recordings he made withother labels divide opinion: some consider Green to have been the 'Fatherof Acid Jazz'. While in New York to play an engagement at George Ben-son's Breezin' Lounge, Grant collapsed in his car of a heart attack in NewYork City on January 31, 1979. Since Green's demise, his reputation hasgrown to legendary status and many compilations of both his earlier (post-bop/straight ahead and soul jazz) and later (funkier/dancefloor jazz) peri-ods, exist.


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Herb Ellis

Date of Birth: August 4, 1921-March 28, 2010

Place of Birth: Farmersville, TXSchools Attended: North Texas State Univer-sityTeachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 37Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

Ellis first heard the electric guitar performed by George Barnes on a radioprogram. This experience is said to have inspired him to take up the guitar.He became proficient on the instrument by the time he entered North Tex-as State University as a music major. Ellis majored in music, but becausethey did not yet have a guitar program at that time, he studied the stringbass. Unfortunately, due to lack of funds, his college days were short lived.In 1941, Ellis dropped out of college and toured for 6 months with a bandfrom the University of Kansas. In 1943, he joined Glen Gray and the CasaLoma Orchestra and it was with Gray's band that he got his first recogni-tion in the jazz magazines. After Gray's band, Ellis joined the JimmyDorseyband where he played some of his first recorded solos. Ellis re-mained with Dorsey through 1947, traveling and recording extensively,and playing in dance halls and movie palaces. Ellis then joined the OscarPeterson Trio (replacing Barney Kessel) in 1953, forming one of the mostmemorable of all the piano, guitar, and bass trios in jazz history. Ellis be-came prominent after performing with the Oscar Peterson Trio from 1953to 1958 along with pianist Peterson and bassist Ray Brown. He was a

somewhat controversial member of the trio, because he was the onlywhite person in the group in a time when racism was still very much wide-spread. The years of 1959 through 1960 found Ellis touring with Ella Fitz-gerald. Ellis died of Alzheimer's disease at his Los Angeles home on themorning of March 28, 2010, at the age of 88.


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Howard Alden

Date of Birth: October 17, 1958

Place of Birth: Newport Beach, CASchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 29Currently Touring? Yes

Youtube: Yes

Alden moved to New York City in 1982 to play an extended engagement atthe Café Carlyle with jazz pianist/songwriter Joe Bushkin. Soon afterward,he was discovered by Joe Williams and Woody Herman. In 1983 he wasalready collaborating with Dick Hyman, when he appeared with him and ahost of other musicians at Eubie Blake's one-hundredth birthday con-cert. In 1988 Alden signed with Concord Jazz record label, and recordedmany albums with them over the following fifteen years as a bandleaderand as a sideman. He taught actor Sean Penn to play guitar for his roleas the legendary (but fictional) jazz guitarist "Emmett Ray" in the Woody

Allen film "Sweet and Lowdown". Alden also performed most of the musicfor the film along with Bucky Pizzarelli on rhythm guitar, with the music ar-ranged by pianist Dick Hyman . It seems that the only thing regardingHoward Alden on which the critics have debate is whether the remarkable

jazz guitarist is one of the best or simply the best. As a result of his asso-ciating with - and inspiration from - George Van Eps, Alden has been play-ing the seven-string guitar since 1992. The seven string guitar imparts agreater range and harmonic richness to Alden's already colorful tonal pal-

ette, as evidenced on three remarkable follow-up albums with Van Eps, hiscritically acclaimed duo recordings with saxophonist/clarinetist KenPeplowski, and the stunning interplay between Alden and special guestFrank Wess on Your Story - The Music of Bill Evans . Alden also teamedup with fellow guitarists Jimmy Bruno and Frank Vignola to record a threeguitar outing entitled The Concord Jazz Guitar Collective , which wasquickly called by some critics "an instant classic!"


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Jeffrey Burr

Date of Birth: September 8, 1974

Place of Birth: San Francisco, CASchools Attended: William Paterson CollegeTeachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 2Currently Touring?

Youtube: yes

The child of two classical bassists, Jeffrey Burr was encouraged to studymusic seriously from a young age, but chose the guitar as his instrument.On the way to Rock Stardom, some Charlie Parker sides got throughsomehow, and Jeffrey wound up spending several years studying jazz im-provisation. At sixteen he performed with bop grandmaster Dizzy Gillespie.

After earning his BA at the renowned William Paterson College, Jeffreymoved his shed to Brooklyn and generally made a nuisance of himself inthe NYC jazz scene. This one time, he played with Norah Jones, but shewasn't famous yet. Before returning to the Bay Area from whence hesprang, Jeffrey recorded “Bright Blue”


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Jim Hall

Date of Birth: December 4, 1930

Place of Birth: Buffalo, New YorkSchools Attended: Cleveland Institute ofMusicTeachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 45Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

Hall moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and theninternational, attention in the late 1950s. There he studied classic guitarwith Vincente Gómez.[2]He played with Chico Hamilton Quintet, (1955 –1956), Jimmy Giuffre Trio (1956 –1959),Ella Fitzgerald (1960 –1961), BenWebster, Hampton Hawes, Bob Brookmeyer, John Lewis, Zoot Sims, PaulDesmond, Lee Konitz and Bill Evans. By 1960 Jim had arrived in NewYork to work with Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer, among others. His liveand recorded collaborations there with Bill Evans, Paul Desmond and RonCarter have become legendary. Formal recognition as a composer camein 1997, when Hall won the New York Jazz Critics Circle Award for BestJazz Composer/Arranger. His pieces for string, brass, and vocal ensem-bles can be heard on his Textures and By Arrangement recordings. Hisoriginal composition, Quartet Plus Four , a piece for jazz quartet augment-ed by the Zapolski string quartet, was debuted in Denmark during the con-cert and ceremony where he was awarded the coveted Jazzpar Prize, andlater released on CD. His most recent large-scale composition was a con-certo for guitar and orchestra, commissioned by Towson Universi-

ty in Maryland for The First World Guitar Congress, which was debuted inJune 2004 with the Baltimore Symphony. He was awarded an NEA JazzMasters Fellowshipaward in January 2004. In November, 2008 the double-disc album Hemispheres was released through the ArtistShare label.


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Jimmy Bruno

Date of Birth: July 22, 1953

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, PASchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 15Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

In recognition of his prodigious talents, Jimmy has been invited to play atmajor music festivals around the world, including the JVC, Berks, Vail, andConcord Jazz Festivals, and a whirlwind stop at the Pescara Jazz Festivalin Pescara, Italy. Over the years, he has shared the stage with a who'swho of legendary and highly regarded musicians: Joe Beck, Bobby Wat-son, Jack Wilkins, Tal Farlow (at Farlow's 75

th Birthday Concert), Howard

Alden, Christian McBride, Curt Elling and many more. When a tribute con-cert was planned for Barney Kessel, Jimmy was one of an invited group of30 guitarists chosen to perform and was honored to open the tribute (withHoward Alden). He has also participated in tributes to jazz giants KennyBurrell, Herb Ellis and Johnny Smith. In May of 2007, Jimmy and Affiliated

Artists opened the Jimmy Bruno Guitar Institute (JBGI). With his uniqueinsight into jazz and jazz guitar, Jimmy brought his method and "no non-sense" approach to jazz improvisation to eager guitar students around theworld. Five months later, his long-standing reputation as a jazz educatorwas further enhanced when he was invited to address and perform at the4-day Jazz Improv Convention in New York City. Downbeat magazine — in

celebration of their 75th

Anniversary in 2009—

named Jimmy as one ofthe top 75 guitarists of all time! In 2011, Jimmy created his own independ-ent online jazz guitar school— the Jimmy Bruno Guitar Workshop— withall-new, improved lesson content and delivery systems to better serve hishuge jazz guitar student base around the world. Having spent three yearswith the Institute, improving upon and tweaking his teaching methodthanks to the direct feedback from his students, he has once again revolu-tionized the way students can learn guitar on the Internet.


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Jimmy Raney

Date of Birth: August 29, 1927-May 10, 1995

Place of Birth: Louisville, KentuckSchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 58Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

Raney joined Woody Herman in 1948. Thereafter he played and recordedwith a number of leading swing era veterans and up-and-coming stars in-cluding Artie Shaw, Stan Getz, Terry Gibbs and Red Norvo. Throughoutthe 60s he worked in studios, making occasional jazz club appearances.This pattern continued into the 70s with the bias gradually swinging to-wards jazz work. A relaxed and highly proficient technician, Raney's solowork displayed a cool, lambent style which is much admired, although hisattraction was often cerebral rather than emotional. Raney suffered forthirty years from Ménière's disease, a degenerative condition that eventu-ally led to near complete deafness in both ears. Fortunately, his playing re-mained unaffected. Raney died of heart failure, in Louisville Ky. on May 10of 1995, just short of his 68th birthday. An obituary in the New York Timesreferred to Jimmy Raney as 'one of the most gifted and influential postwar

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Joe Diorio

Date of Birth: August 6, 1936

Place of Birth: Waterbury, ConnecticutSchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching: USCHow Many Recordings?: 10Currently Touring?

Youtube: Many (who hums when he playsdue to a stroke)

Guitarist and composer Joe Diorio was born in Waterbury, CT, August 6,1936. Joe has 50 years experience playing the guitar and over 40 yearsexperience as a performer and recording artist. He has worked with such

jazz luminaries as Sonny Stitt, Eddie Harris, Ira Sullivan, Stan Getz, Hor-ace Silver, and Freddie Hubbard. He has recently toured Italy with Riccar-do Del Fra (bass player with Chet Baker, Johnny Griffin, Toots Thieleman).

His most recent releases on CD with the new Italian jazz label RAM Rec-

ords include: I Remember Wes, a tribute to Wes Montgomery; A solo gui-tar album We Will Meet Again; Double Take with live recordings of the per-formances with Riccardo Del Fra; and Rare Birds, a duo album with MickGoodrick.

Highly respected as an educator, Joe has many books and an educationalvideo to his name. Joe currently teaches at the University of Southern Cal-ifornia, Los Angeles and has conducted jazz guitar seminars throughoutthe United States, Europe, and Brazil. Additionally, Joe was one of the

three founding instructors for the Guitar Institute of Technology (G. I. T.) inHollywood California.


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Joe Pass

Real Name

Date of Birth: January 13, 1929Died if applicable: May 23, 1994Place of Birth: New Brunswick, NJSchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 96Currently Touring?

Youtube: many

As early as 14, Pass started getting gigs and was playing with bands fronted by TonyPastor and Charlie Barnet, honing his guitar skills and learning the music business.He began traveling with small jazz groups and eventually moved from Pennsylvaniato New York City. In a few years, he fell victim to drug abuse, and spent much of the1950s in relative obscurity. Pass managed to emerge from it through a two-and-a-half-year stay at Synanon, drug rehabilitation program. During that time he playedguitar non stop and further honed his skills. In 1962 he recorded The Sounds ofSynanon. He was a sideman with Louis Bellson, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, JoeWilliams, Della Reese, Johnny Mathis, and worked on TV shows including The To-night Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Merv Griffin Show , The Steve Allen Show , and others. In the early 1970s, Pass and guitarist Herb Ellis were performing togetherregularly at Donte's jazz club in Los Angeles. This collaboration led to Pass and Ellisrecording the very first album on the new Concord Jazz label, entitled simply Jazz/ Concord (#CJS-1), along with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Jake Hanna. In theearly 1970s, Pass also collaborated on a series of music books, and his Joe PassGuitar Style (written with Bill Thrasher) is considered a leading improvisation textbookfor students of jazz. In 1994, Joe Pass died from liver cancer in Los Angeles, Califor-

nia at the age of 65 . Pass's early style (influenced by guitarist Django Reinhardt andsaxophonist Charlie Parker), was marked by fast single-note lines and a flowing me-lodic sense. Pass had the unusual lifelong habit of breaking his guitar picks and play-ing only with the smaller part. As Pass made the transition from ensemble to solo gui-tar performance, he preferred to abandon the pick altogether, and play fingerstyle. Hefound this enabled him to execute his harmonic concepts more effectively. His seriesof solo albums, Virtuoso (volumes 1 through 4) are a demonstration of Pass's refinedtechnique.


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John Pizzarelli

Date of Birth: April 6, 1960

Place of Birth: Paterson, New JerseySchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 40Currently Touring? Yes

Youtube: Yes

John Pizzarelli, the world-renowned jazz guitarist and singer, was called“Hip with a wink” by Town & Country, “madly creative” by the Los AngelesTimes and “the genial genius of the guitar” by The Toronto Star. When heperforms with his wife, singer/actress Jessica Molaskey, and his father,guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli, they were labeled “the First Family of Cool”by the San Francisco Chronicle and “the von Trapps on Martinis” by TheNew Yorker. According to The New York Times, “the Pizzarelli-Molaskeyduo are as good as it gets in any entertainment medium.” After his recentsmash success with the Boston Pops, he was hailed by the Boston Globefor “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.”

And the Seattle Times called him “a tour de force” and “a rare entertainerof the old school.” Before a recent show in the northwest, the local paperquipped “John Pizzarelli is so impossibly cool, he shouldn’t be legally al-lowed to enter Oregon.” In 1997, Pizzarelli made his Broadway debut inthe musical Dream, a revue of Johnny Mercer songs. Particularly laudedfor his swinging interpretations of jazz standards, Pizzarelli also composeshis own songs, some of which have achieved a sort of modern "standard"

status in their own right. He is also a fan of bossa nova and released analbum entirely composed of that type of music. Perhaps his most famousand highly-regarded album, though, is Dear Mr. Cole, an album featuringPizzarelli's versions of some of Nat "King" Cole's most famous songs.


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John Stowell

Date of Birth:

Place of Birth:Schools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 25Currently Touring? Yes

Youtube: yes

Stowell, who plays electric and acoustic guitar, raised in Connecticut hadprivate studies with Linc Chamberland and John Mehegan. Several yearslater he met bassist David Friesen in New York City, and they formed aduo in 1976 that recorded and toured prolifically for seven years, with per-formances in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. The duocontinues to perform thirty years after their first meeting. In 1983, Stowelland David Friesen joined flutist Paul Horn and Paul’s son Robin Horn (ondrums) for a tour of the Soviet Union. In 1977 Stowell recorded his debutalbum Golden Delicious; his sidemen were Jim McNeely, Mike Richmond, and Billy Hart[1]Stowell teaches internationally. He has been an Artist-In-Residence at schools in Germany,Indonesia, Argentina, the United Statesand Canada. He served as assistant director and performer at OregonPublic Broadcasting’s PDX Jazz Summit in 1991, and since 1995 hasbeen a contributing columnist for a number of magazines, including DownBeat, Guitar Player, Canadian Musician, Soundcheck (Germany),and Guitar Club (Italy). In Germany, he teaches at Jazz & Rock SchulenFreiburg with Frank Haunschild, with whom he playes regularly in a duo.

He has also worked with Uwe Kropinski, Dave Liebman, Hiram Mutsch-ler, Gérard Pansanel, Kelley Shannon, and Nicolao Valiensi. In 2005 Stow-ell published Jazz Guitar Mastery (book and DVD). Stowell currently livesin Portland, Oregon. Stowell plays holds the guitar in a vertical position,not unlike a cello player.


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Joyce Cooling

Date of Birth:


Youtube: Yes

Joyce Cooling, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, is best known for her ec-lectic style and colorful body-moving sound. Funky, soulful, and alwaysoriginal, Joyce Cooling is recognized as one of the most dynamic andpopular contemporary jazz guitarists in the world. Joyce has recorded sev-en albums - five of which charted on Billboard. She has to her credit two#1 radio singles, six top 10 and thirteen charting singles in all, and hasgarnered multiple music awards including the Gibson Best Jazz Guitaristof the Year and Best New Talent in the Jazziz Reader’s Poll. She was anominee for the California Music Awards, the Oasis Awards and the GavinContemporary Jazz Artist of the Year. Cooling has performed with such

jazz giants as Joe Henderson, Stan Getz, and Charlie Byrd. Her top-10single, “Mm Mm Good,” featuring Al Jarreau; and Christmas holidaytracks, “The Christmas Song,” with Lee Ritenour and her original single,“It’s Feeling Like Christmas,” have pushed Cooling to new heights of popu-larity while showcasing her musical versatility. Joyce Cooling is an interna-tional attraction at major jazz festivals around the world. Global Cooling ,released in April 2009, is their seventh studio CD and is receiving world-

wide critical acclaim and raving reviews. Global Cooling was #2 on Ama-zon and hit #1 on the smoothjazz Indie charts and stayed there for overthree months. The CD also remained in the top 10 on the TOP 50 RadioCharts for weeks, and the single, “Dolores in Pink,” won the #2 spot onCanada’s 2009 Café Jazz Review. Global Cooling was also chosen as the2009 Album of the Year in the U.K. by PhoenixFM. Cooling has also re-ceived international accolades for Revolving Door (2006 Narada/ BlueNote),


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Kenny Burrell

Date of Birth: July 31, 1931

Place of Birth: Detroit, MichiganSchools Attended: Wayne State UniversityTeachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 106Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

From the start of his career Kenny Burrell was described as a bop andhard bop player. Some of his early recordings supported this description,but like all the great players, Kenny Burrell brought his own unique styleand sound to his playing. The bop elements were there, along with bluesand a great blend of the two styles. And Burrell proved himself to be an ex-ceptional soloist. But, Kenny Burrell also preferred a much gentler, moremelodic and expressive style of play. This style was reflected in two earlyrecordings that pointed the way to a style and format that Burrell woulduse throughout his career. Between 1963 and 1970 Kenny Burrell contin-ued to work the New York studios. In the early 1970s Kenny Burrell moved

to California and began recording on the Fantasy and CTI labels and laterwith Concord Records. It was during this time that Burrell began teaching a

course on Duke Ellington at UCLA. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s and1980s Kenny Burrell released recordings at a regular rate. Burrell released

more than 90 recordings as leader and appeared on hundreds of recordingsas sideman from bop to blues to pop. Today, Kenny Burrell continues to in-

fluence the jazz guitar community and further the value of jazz guitar. Heperforms and records on a regular basis and he continues to teach. He

holds a BA in Music from Wayne State University, an honorary doctoratefrom William Paterson College and he isProfessor of Guitar, Jazz Pro-

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Lenny Breau

Date of Birth: August 5, 1941-August 12, 1984

Place of Birth: Auburn, MaineSchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 23Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

Breau's fully matured technique was a combination of Atkins' and Travis'fingerpicking and Sabicas-influenced flamenco, highlighted by extraordi-nary right-hand independence and flurries of artificial harmonics. His har-monic sensibilities were a combination of his country roots, classical, mod-al, Indian, and especially jazz, particularly the work of pianist Bill Evans.In1967, recordings of Breau's playing from The Lenny Breau Show hadfound their way into the hands of Chet Atkins. The ensuing friendship re-sulted in Breau's first two LP issues, Guitar Sounds from LennyBreau and The Velvet Touch of Lenny Breau. Live! on RCA. He lived invarious Canadian cities until 1976 when he returned to the United States.H e s p e n t t h e n e x t s e v e r a l y e a r s m o v i n g b e -tween Nashville, Maine,Stockton, California and New York City eventuallysettling in Los Angeles in 1983. These years were spent performing,teaching, and writing for Guitar Player magazine. During this time, he hadcustom 7 string guitars made, one classical and one electric. At the time,no company made a string that could be tuned to the high B on his classi-cal guitar. Lenny used fishing line the correct gauge, until La Bella began

making a string for him. Only a few more solo albums and albums record-ed with fiddler Buddy Spicher and pedal steel guitarist Buddy Em-mons were issued during his lifetime. On August 12, 1984 his body wasfound in a swimming pool at his apartment complex in Los Ange-les, California. The coroner reported that he had beenstrangled. His wife,Jewel Breau, was the chief suspect in the case but she was never chargedwith his murder and the case is still unsolve.


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Martin Taylor

Date of Birth: October 20, 1956

Place of Birth: Harlow, EnglandSchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 23Currently Touring? yes

Youtube: yes

At the age of 4 Taylor received his first guitar from his father, bassist Wil-liam ‘Buck’ Taylor. His father frequently played the music of the Quintettedu Hot Club de France and Taylor became inspired by their legendary gui-tarist Django Reinhardt. At age 8 he was playing regularly in his father’sband and at 15 he quit school intent on becoming a professional musician.Over the next few years Taylor played in numerous bands, in holidaycamps, various radio dates and on cruise ships. Performing dates in andaround London soon brought him into contact with fellow jazz guitarist IkeIsaacs who took the younger man under his wing. In addition to performingwith Taylor as a duet, Isaacs helped develop his sense of jazz harmonyand started him on the road to developing his unique fingerstyle tech-nique. Taylor puts his musical talent down to beginning to learn guitar atan early age, playing frequently and also having many musicians on hisfather's side of the family. Keen to avoid having to rely on other musiciansfor income, Taylor took a gamble and started to perform as a solo act. Hisindividual style and engaging stage personality paid off and the gigsproved successful. After a few years he stopped touring with Grappelli

and, aided by a recording contract with Scottish label Linn Records, heconcentrated on his solo career. The relative success of these albums,and his concert dates, raised his profile in the guitar community as hispeers became interested in his unique style. Taylor is an eleven-time win-ner of Best guitarist at the British Jazz awards, Freeman of the City of Lon-don, honorary doctorate awarded by Paisley University, Scotland, and in2002 he was appointed a Member of the British Empire (knighted).


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Mundell Lowe

Date of Birth: March 21, 1922


Youtube: Yes

Mundell left home at the age of thirteen. After working in Nashville, hefound his way to Bourbon Street in New Orleans and the beginning of his

jazz career. From the early fifties to the mid-Sixties, he was an active per-former, working with George Duvivier on bass and Ed Shaughnessy ondrums in Dave Garroway’s “Today Show” studio band. He also playedwith the extraordinary pianist Hank Jones when they both worked in theNBC and CBS orchestras of the early Fifties. After seventeen years atNBC as a guitarist and arranger, Lowe was transferred to the News andSpecial Events Department to work as a composer. MUNDELL MOVED TO LOS ANGELES, California, Christmas 1965—actually, he left to visit somefriends, and never went back to New York! He met Jackie Cooper, then-head of Screen Gems, and began the West Coast phase of his careercomposing music for some of their television and film properties. Loweaugmented his TV and film work with recording his own LP’s. Mundellfound he was spending more time writing than playing, which he foundfrustrating. He made up his mind to turn that around and, during the1980s, he stepped out of the studio world of film and television and re-

turned to performing, the first love of his long and rich musical career. Inthe 1990's, Mundell Lowe continued to record and has a long list of creditswith Andre Previn, Tete Montolu, The Great Guitars, and some new duetswith Sal Salvador. In 2000 he recorded a tribute to Charlie Byrd with gui-tarist Lloyd Wells.


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Pat Martino

Date of Birth: August 25, 1944

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, PASchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 33Currently Touring? Yes

Youtube: Yes

Martino began playing professionally at age 15. Martino played and rec-orded early in his career. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Martino mademany recordings as a sideman and also under his own name.

In 1980, Martino underwent surgery as the result of a nearly fatalbrain aneurysm. The surgery left him with amnesia, leaving him, amongother things, without any memory of the guitar and his musical career.With the help of friends, computers, and his old recordings, Martino made

a recovery , and learned to play the guitar again.His improvisation method,"Conversion to Minor", is often mistakenly thought to be based upon usingexclusively minor systems for soloing. In fact, the system involves concep-tualising chord progressions in terms of the relative minor chord/scale, butin practice this seems to be more a way for organizing the fretboard, ratherthan justifying playing certain tones in terms of whether they are "correct"or not. Martino's lines contain chromatic notes outside any particular IIm7chord that might be conceptualized over a chord progression; even in theexamples he provides in his books and instructional videos. Indeed, on hisbulletin board he has stated that he formulated the system more as a wayto explain his playing, rather than as something to use to create music. Inhis own words, "although the analysis of some of my recorded solos havebeen referred to as modal, personally I’ve never operated in that way. I’vealways depended upon my own melodic instinct, instead of scale like for-mulas". Martino's return to music started once again with the 1987 record-ing The Return.


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Peter White

Date of Birth: September 20, 1954

Place of Birth: Luton, EnglandSchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 12Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

White first gained fame with his distinctive guitar style as accompanist to Al Stewart. During a 20-year tenure with Stewart, he co-wrote manysongs, including Stewart's 1978 top-ten hit "Time Passages". In the late1980s, White accompanied Basia on a series of acclaimed albums. In1996, Basia was featured on White's album Caravan of Dreams, with vo-cals on the single "Just Another Day". White began recording his own al-bums in 1990. His songs— "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)", rec-

orded by Jr. Walker & The All Stars (2006), "Mister Magic", recordedby Grover Washington, Jr. (2007), and "Bright" (2009)— have eachreached number one on the Billboard Jazz Songs chart. Peter White per-formed regularly on many Windows albums appearing as a more or less'permanent guest', In 2001 and 2002, White worked with Creed Bratton inthe release of Bratton's first three solo albums. White produced, mixedand also played guitar on many of the tracks. Peter White won the awardfor best Smooth Jazz Musician in the 2007 Canadian Smooth Jazz

Awards. He was named the Best Guitarist at the National Smooth Jazz Awards for four consecutive years from 2000-2003.

In 2000, White won three Oasis Contemporary Jazz Awards:

*CD of the Year for Perfect Moment

*Song of the Year for "Midnight in Manhattan" with Grover Washington, Jr.*Best Guitarist


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Robert Conti

Date of Birth: November 21, 1945

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, PASchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 9Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

Conti first began performing locally at age fourteen. In 1966, after fouryears on the road touring North America, he settledin Jacksonville, Florida. In1970, he left music to pursue a career in the securities industry. In 1976 hebegan playing jazz again. In 1979, he was signed to LA based DiscoveryRecords label. Conti released Latin Love Affair and a Direct To Disc re-cording titled Solo Guitar as his debut efforts as a leader in 1979. In 1982,he left music again for the business world. In 1985, he released anotheralbum. In mid 1988, he was offered a position under filmmaker Dino DeLaurentiis in Beverly Hills, California. After a lengthy recovery from a backinjury in late '88, Conti was offered a position as resident jazz guitarist atthe Irvine Marriott. He held that gig until mid 1998. Many of his most recentendeavors have been educational in nature; since starting his website in2000, he has released 27 educational DVDs on jazz guitar, including prochord melody and improvisation using his trademark “No Modes, NoScales” approach to teaching jazz guitar. As a performing jazz guitarist fornearly five decades, Robert Conti is ranked in the top handful of theworld's greatest players by knowledgeable musicians and fans. His skill

and a vast repertoire keeps him in demand to perform at numerous ven-ues from Jazz Clubs and festivals to First Class Hotels including and on-going Corporate Events in California and Las Vegas. In 2009, Conti intro-duced the Conti Archtop Jazz Guitars - a high quality instrument with em-phasis on affordability for the majority of guitarists. This model has be-come wildly popular with jazz enthusiasts around the world.


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Roni Ben-Hur

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Youtube: Yes

An avid educator, Ben-Hur's teaching career began in Israel in 1981.Since then, he created and directed the very popular jazz program at theLucy Moses School in the Kaufman Center in New York City, establishedsuccessful high school jazz programs in various high schools in New YorkCity, created and directed jazz summer camps around the world, and pre-sented workshops to students of all ages in Europe and the US. His inspi-rational demeanor and communication skills create a strong personal bondwith his students, prompting actress and social / educational activist, BetteMidler, to ask Ben-Hur to model a music education program for other pub-lic schools in New York City. Ben-Hur has earned high praise from jazzcritics around the world for his previous recordings, Backyard (TCB-1996), Sofia's Butterfly (TCB-1998), Anna's Dance (Reservoir Music-2001), Signature (Reservoir-2005), Keepin’ It Open (Motema-2007)& Smile (with Gene Bertoncini, Motema-2008). Among his most ardent ad-mirers is award-winning writer Gary Giddins, who selected Ben-Hur's

Anna's Dance as "One of the Best Jazz CD’s of 2001" inThe Village Voice.The youngest of seven siblings, Ben-Hur was one of the first Israeli jazz

musicians to have a significant impact on American jazz. He single-handedly blazed the trail for the current new wave of talented Israelis nowmaking their mark. As a determined and impressionable young musician,literally 'fresh off the boat' in 1985, Roni absorbed a lifetime of real-dealexperience hanging out at Barry Harris' Jazz Cultural Theater, the epicen-ter of hip in Manhattan during the 1980s. There he met a veritable who'swho in jazz, each of whom imparted enriching tales about living the jazzlife to the aspiring guitarist.


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Russell Malone

Date of Birth: November 8, 1963

Place of Birth: Albany, GeorgiaSchools Attended: self taughtTeachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 13Currently Touring? Yes

Youtube: yes

Malone began playing at the age of four in his home of Albany, Georgia,with a toy guitar his mother had bought him, influenced by musicians suchas B.B. King and The Dixie Hummingbirds.However, he cites that the mostinfluential musical experience he had as a youth was "[At the age oftwelve] seeing George Benson perform on television…with Benny Good-man."

[1]He learned technique from listening to recordings of Benson, Wes

Montgomery, and Charlie Christian, among others. Malone played with jazz organist Jimmy Smith from 1988—1990.[1] He then joined the HarryConnick Jr. Big Band from 1989-1994. In 1995, Malone became part ofthe Diana Krall trio, participating in three Grammy-nominated albums, thefinal one in 1999, "When I Look In Your Eyes," winning Best Vocal JazzPerformance. Malone was part of jazz pianist Benny Green's recordings inthe late 1990s and 2000: "Kaleidoscope" (1997), "These Are SoulfulDays" (1999), and "Naturally" (2000). The two formed a duo partnership,releasing the live recording, "Jazz At The Bistro" in 2003, and the studiorecording "Bluebird" in 2004. The duo toured until 2007. Malone tours reg-ularly as leader of The Russell Malone Quartet, and more recently in sup-

port of "Triple Play" (2010) of the Russell Malone Trio. When touring theUS, Canada, Japan, and Europe, South America, and Australia, he can beseen in appearances with Dianne Reeves and Romero Lubambo andtours frequently with legendary bassist Ron Carter.


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Tal Farlow

Date of Birth: June 7, 1921-July 25, 1998

Place of Birth: Greensboro, NCSchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 35Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

Nicknamed the "Octopus", Farlow's extremely large hands spread over thefretboard as if they were tentacles. He is considered one of the all-timegreat jazz guitarists. In 1956 he was named by Down Beat magazine crit-ics as the very best jazz guitarist in the world, and for all the right reasons.Where other similar players of his day combined rhythmic chords with line-ar melodies. Farlow preferred placing single notes together in clusters,varying between harmonically richened tones based on a startling newtechnique. His spider-like fingers handled the guitar in a way no otherplayer could match, and this physical approach set Farlow apart from allothers. A supreme technician, renowned for his articulation, and smoothrelaxed phrasing even at the most daunting tempos. Nearly as famous forhis reluctance to perform publicly as for his outstanding abilities, he did nottake up the instrument until he was 21, but within a year was playing pro-fessionally. From 1949 –1953, Farlow became famous in the jazz world.His huge hands and ability to play rapid yet light lines, made him one ofthe top guitarists of the era. In 1958, Farlow retired from full-time perform-ing, returning to a career as a sign painter. He continued to play occasion-

al dates in local clubs. In 1962 the Gibson Guitar Corporation, with Far-low's participation, produced the "Tal Farlow" model in their prestigious

Artist Model line. Farlow only made one record as a leader during 1960 –1975, but emerged a bit more often during 1976 –1984, recording for Con-cord fairly regularly before largely disappearing again.


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Ted Greene

Date of Birth: September 26, 1946—2005


Youtube: yes

While Greene is often regarded as a jazz musician, he played many musi-cal styles. He was known to guitarists due to his role as a music educator,which included private teaching, seminars at the Guitar Institute of Tech-nology, columns for Guitar Player magazine, and his series of instructionalbooks on guitar harmony, chord melody and single-note soloing. A vora-cious reader of almost any book on music theory, especially from the'Common Practice Period' (circa 1600-1900) he distilled very complex con-cepts regarding the structure of western music, and would write out moreaccessible versions for students to understand , often applying keyboardconcepts to the guitar. For example, many transcriptions of the Chorals ofJ.S. Bach would be re-written for guitar, along with useful analysis applica-ble to any musical setting, such as jazz and other styles. He would alsomake occasional live appearances at clubs in the San Fernando Valley, usually playing a Fender Telecaster. While he was a sought-after sessionplayer, he derived much of his income from tutoring. He wrote four bookson the subject of jazz guitar performance and theory: Chord Chemis-try, Modern Chord Progressions: Jazz and Classical Voicings for Guitar ,

and the two-volume Jazz Guitar: Single Note Soloing . His playing style in-cluded techniques such as harp-like harmonic arpeggios, combined withgentle, tasteful neck vibrato, creating a "shimmer" to his sound. Other no-table techniques included playing songs with a "walking bass" line withsimultaneous melodies. Greene used counterpoint to improvise in a varie-ty of styles, such as playing a jazz standard such as AutumnLeaves in Baroque style. He used a large variety of chord voicings, oftencreating the effect of two simultaneous players.


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Tony Mottola

Date of Birth: Aparil 18, 1918-August 9, 2004

Place of Birth: Denville, New JerseySchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 18Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

Like many of his contemporaries he started out learning to play the banjoand then took up the guitar. He had his first guitar lessons from his fatherand by the late 1930s he was playing in George Hall's orchestra. Mottolawas one of the most sought after and respected studio musicians in therecording and music industry. He worked extensively with Frank Sina-tra and Perry Como, and orchestrated albums for Burl Ives. He appearedon the DuMont Television Network program Melody Street . Mottola alsoplayed with Doc Severinsen's Orchestra on The Tonight Show and com-posed music for the films Running on Empty and Violated (1953) as well asthe 1950s television series Danger , which starred Yul Brynner. Several ofhis songs were heavily sampled by The Avalanches for their album Since ILeft You. Mottola's only charted single under his own name was "ThisGuy's In Love With You" which reached #22 on Billboard's "Easy ListeningTop 40" in the summer of 1968. Throughout the 1970's and 1980's TonyMottola produced a large number of recordings that don't fit into the jazzgenre, but were successful guitar recordings. The many recordings hemade with Enoch Light probably fit better in the popular music area and

did much to enhance the popularity of the guitar. He was one of the mostsought after and respected studio musicians in the recording and generalmusic industries. He was certainly one of the most respected guitar play-ers to ever play the instrument.


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Tuck & Patti

Date of Birth:

Place of Birth:Schools Attended: Stanford UniversityTeachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 16Currently Touring? Yes-world wide

Youtube: yes

For nearly three decades, this unique vocal/guitar jazz duo has cast itspassionate musical spell worldwide, capturing the hearts of lovers, the re-spect of jazz buffs, and the jaw-dropping awe of guitarists.With 29 years ofperforming together, and 26 years of marriage, the devotion forged by thisextraordinary couple shows no sign of dimming from the pressure of famili-arity. For them, this pressure creates more diamond than dust. Their in-stinct for refining their music, their technique and their career —their homestudio makeover —their house and garden renovation—never wavers fromtheir credo: It's not done if it's not from the heart. And what comes from theheart demands excellence. Onstage and off, guitarist Tuck Andress andvocalist/arranger Patti Cathcart might, at first impression, strike you as anodd couple. The obvious difference in skin color is quickly overshadowedby the contrast of their personalities. Patti exudes the soft, centered yetpowerful graciousness of a gospel singer; Tuck almost wears his brain onhis skin, anticipating the thousands of musical decisions he'll have to sendto his ten fingers during the course of a performance. Seeing the virtuosityand complexity of Tuck's guitar work, most are surprised to learn that Patti

is the actual writer, arranger, and producer. Without even blinking, Tuck-the-problem-solver brags, "Patti writes and arranges; I am just the orches-tra."


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Wes Montgomery

Date of Birth: March 6, 1923-June 15, 1968

Place of Birth: Indianapolis, IndianaSchools Attended:Teachers:University Currently Teaching:How Many Recordings?: 33Currently Touring?

Youtube: Yes

Wes Montgomery came from a musical family; his brothers, Monk (stringbass and electric bass) and Buddy (vibraphone and piano), were jazz per-formers. The brothers released a number of albums together asthe Montgomery Brothers. Although he was not skilled at reading music,he could learn complex melodies and riffs by ear. Montgomery startedlearning guitar at the relatively late age of 19, by listening to and learningthe recordings of his idol, guitarist Charlie Christian. He was known for hisability to play Christian's solos note for note. Many fellow jazz guitaristsconsider Montgomery the greatest influence among modern jazz guitar-ists. Following the early work of swing/pre-bop guitarist Charlie Christianand gypsy-jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, Wes joined Tal Farlow, JohnnySmith, Jimmy Raney, and Barney Kessell to put guitar on the map as a be-bop / post-bop instrument. While these men generally curtailed their ownoutput in the 1960s, Montgomery recorded prolifically during this period,lending guitar to the same tunes contemporaries like John Coltrane andMiles Davis were recording. While many Jazz players are regarded as vir-tuosos, Montgomery had a very wide influence on other virtuosos who fol-

lowed him, and in the respect he earned from his contemporaries. Tomany, Montgomery's playing defines jazz guitar and the sound that learn-ers try to emulate. Wes Montgomery was certainly one of the most influ-ential and most musical guitarists to ever pick up the instrument....He tookthe use of octaves and chord melodies to a greater level than any otherguitarist, before or since....Montgomery is undoubtedly one of the most im-portant voices in Jazz guitar that has ever lived-or most likely ever will live.

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