Mickey Baker RIP.

[Bluesnote]

Dont know if many of you were familiar with this guitar great. I just read on another site that he passed away last week.
He was a great influence on my playing in the early seventies. I purchased his jazz guitar tutor in 1970 when I was working in London. It totally opened up my knowledge of the guitar with the vast amount of chords it had in it. I think it influenced many a big name guitarist in later years.
Robbin Ford once commented on it stating that it was the biggest influence on his playing in his early years.
I remember wondering how my fingers could possibly stretch to these crazy chord examples, then all of a sudden finding that I could do them with ease. It was a nice gentle approach to jazz guitar playing as opposed to the Joe Pass and Ted Greene books of later years
Another one gone
Hugh.

[cockroach]

Sad news..RIP Mickey Baker.

He was a great blues/jazz/R'n'B player- he did lots of session playing over the years, and was a pop singer for a while when he did that 'Love Is Strange' song with the lady singer, as Mickey & Sylvia

I also still have his book, which also opened up my eyes to playing guitar when I got it in the late '60's, and is one of the best guitar tutor books, along with dear old Bert's Play in a Day..

[GoldenStreet]

I remember seeing him live at the 1974 Cambridge Folk Festival, when he played a set with Diz Disley... still got the programme!

Bill