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.