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Barry Greene
Barry has several books published with Mel Bay Publications and has just completed an ibook titled "Playing Jazz Guitar". He continues to endorse Thomastik-Infeld strings, Acoustic Image Amplifiers, Raezors Edge speaker cabinets, and Benedetto Guitars. He has performed at the Long Island Guitar Show held in New York, numerous times, and has performed in Europe including Germany, and France. Barry is a Professor of Jazz Guitar at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, where he has been since 1995. He teaches a guitar ensemble, as well as applied guitar, jazz history, improvisation and a course on recording with Pro Tools. His series of video jazz guitar lessons is gaining worldwide recognition.
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Barry Greene: Sojourner
by Jack Bowers
Guitarist Barry Greene, who teaches at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, unveils some formidable chops on Sojourner, on which he is ably accompanied by Bales, Hanley and Stombaugh in a program that concisely blends four of his engaging compositions (“Institutionalized,” “Sincerity,” “Sojourner,” “It Happened to Me”) with Jobim’s soft–spoken samba, “Triste,” Charlie Parker’s sunny “Yardbird Suite,” Miles Davis’ “Nardis,” Monk’s “Evidence” and a brace of enduring standards, “Without a Song” and “It Could Happen to You” (whose chord ...
read morehis improvisations were creative with impeccable technique...
20th Century Guitar wrote:
it has all the urgency of the best of Pat Martino's work...
allaboutjazz.com had to say:
an excellent player, a superior musician with power to spare
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