Re: top young jazz guitarist?

Date: 5 Jun 2003 16:36:32 -0700
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz
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"D.Onstenk" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message news:<bbj3es$9s7b3$email-address-deleted>...
> I have never even heard Clint Strong and Reg Schwager play and I'd like to
> think I know most international top players so their exposure
> internationally speaking must be very low. Their names don't mean much to me
> at this moment (which doesn't say anything about their skills obviously).
HI Dick,
Clint Strong played with country singer Merle Haggard for several
years, so while he might not be known internationally as a "jazz
player" he is likely known across a wide audience for his talents.
However, I doubt most hardcore jazz fans in the states even would have
a clue who he is. That said, he's a monster jazz player who can hold
his own with anyone playing in the "regular" jazz idiom (I don't know
how he'd do with the ultra-modern school of Ben Monder etc.). I know
his teacher fairly well - Slim Richey - and apparently Clint learned
Hank Garland's "Jazz Winds From A New Direction" album when he was 11
or 12. My friend and former teacher Curt Warren knows Clint, and he
told me that at a jazz guitar show featuring cats like Larry Coryell,
Martino, and Herb Ellis, that Clint stole the show.
Clay Moore
http://www.claymoore.com/