Instruction book by Jazz guitar legend Johnny Smith (|) Guitarist Johnny Smith, one of a handful of true jazz virtuosos on the instrument who abandoned a high-profile life in order to raise his daughter in Colorado Springs circa 1958, died on June 11, two weeks shy of his 91st birthday. He'll best be remembered in the music world for his own recordings on the Roost label in the '50s, including the graceful, meditative "Moonlight In Vermont" album, and especially for a composition he first recorded in 1954; "Walk, Don't Run!" which was a hit in two separate versions...
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