interview with Steely Dan guitarist JON HERINGTON

[julesjules]

New interview from the Dr. Jazz Talks interview series, this time Jon Herington – amazing guitarist and composer, with a great last solo album Quiet…talk about Jon's beginnings and influences, being a bandleader, playing with Steely Dan, Jim Beard, Michael Brecker and others, the US and European jazz scene, his improvisational and compositional approaches, etc…

[sgcim]

He was a total jazzer back in Indianapolis. Then he realized he had to learn all styles to get more work. His friend from Ind. Jim Beard just died the other day at age 63. Beard was working with Steely Dan at the time,