Moonlight in Vermont [HL:151663]

Moonlight in Vermont [HL:151663]

Centerstream Publications

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UPC:
888680090364
Composer:
by Lin Flanagan
EAN:
9781574243222
ISBN:
1574243225
Minimum Order Quantity:
1
Pages:
256
UPC:
888680090364
Format:
Softcover
Subtitle:
The Official Biography of Johnny Smith. Reference
Original Currency:
USD
Vendor:
Hal Leonard
Johnny Smith (1922-2013) was the jazz guitarist's jazz guitarist. During the 1950s, he worked for the network broadcasters in New York while also playing regularly at clubs such as Birdland opposite Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, George Shearing and many other legends of jazz. He was the most revered guitarist on the New York jazz scene during a golden era. His technical virtuosity, quality of tone, musical sophistication and literacy were unrivaled in jazz guitar circles. Many celebrated jazz guitarists still consider him to be the benchmark of musicianship by which all others are measured. This is the biography of the man whom many jazz guitar legends call “The Master.”