Jim Ferguson Guitar Tab Books, Instruction DVDs, Solos, Arrangements, Video Lessons

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Jim Ferguson - Jazz Blues Guitar Player!
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    Jim Ferguson was born in Dayton, Ohio on December 23, 1948. He is well recognized to jazz guitarists all over the world for his hundreds of featured columns on numerous jazz guitarists composed over a period of several years for Guitar Player Magazine. Jim began to play the guitar at the age of 15, at first drawn to folk and blues music. While at college, he became drawn to both jazz and classical guitar. His early jazz guitar influences were Django Reinhardt and Kenny Burrell.

    In the early 1970s Jim Ferguson moved to the Santa Cruz area of California. It was here that he studied jazz guitar with Davis Ramsey and then George Barnes till the guitarist's death in 1977. Jim published a book on blues guitar then began to work for Guitar Player Magazine which is based in Cupertino, California. Over the next several years he worked in numerous departments with this prominent publication eventually attaining the title of Associate Editor. He wrote hundreds of pedagogical columns, history oriented articles, and profiles of as well as interviews with many of the world's most famous jazz guitarists.

    Jim Ferguson is acknowledged as a leading American jazz guitar authority. He has actually added to The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (1988). He has also compiled and annotated CD jazz guitar collections by Fantasy Records and Rhino Records as well as annotated dozens of jazz guitar recordings for the Concord and Fantasy record labels. With his formal classical guitar background he has likewise transcribed numerous works for this instrument for GSP Publications of San Francisco. He authors reviews routinely for Jazz Times Magazine.

    For a time Ferguson studied jazz guitar with the famous Lenny Breau, ghost writing this extraordinary guitar player's fingerstyle jazz column for Guitar Player Magazine. He has performed and taught in the USA, Europe, and Scandinavia. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in music from Mills College in Oakland, California. Jim presently divides his time between freelance writing, college music teaching, composition, as well as jazz and traditional classical guitar performances. He likewise continues to release new book/CDs on all the different aspects of playing jazz guitar.

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