John Stein (guitarist)

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John Stein (born June 19, 1949 in Kansas City, Missouri ) is an American jazz musician (guitar, also double bass, composition).

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Stein, who grew up in Kansas City, took guitar lessons since he was seven. As a teenager he turned to jazz. In 1967 he attended Beloit College , but dropped out and moved to Vermont. He worked in local clubs and initially played rock music . When he was thirty, he attended Berklee College of Music , where he stayed after graduating as an associate professor in harmony . He received a Masters degree from Harvard. His first album, Hustle Up !, was released in 1995. In 2005 he toured with David Fathead Newman .

For several years Stein wrote a column on arranging and composing for Just Jazz Guitar magazine . Then he published the textbooks Berklee Jazz Standards for Solo Guitar, Composing Tunes for Jazz Performance and Composing Blues for Jazz Performance .

Stein has worked with Bill Pierce , Ron Gill , John LaPorta , John Lockwood, and Zé Eduardo Nazário . He also performed with Lou Donaldson , Dr. Lonnie Smith , Larry Goldings , Johnny Vidacovich and Idris Muhammad . He toured France, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil and the USA.

Discographic notes

  • Green Street ( Challenge , 1999)
  • Conversation Pieces ( Jardis , 2000)
  • Portraits and Landscapes (Jardis, 2000)
  • Concerto Internacional de Jazz (Whaling City Sound, 2006)
  • Encounterpoint (Whaling City Sound, 2008)
  • Color Tones (Whaling City Sound, 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Entry (RadioSwissJazz)