Internationally renowned jazz guitarist John Stein was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, where he took up his instrument at an early age. His talent for and love of music ultimately earned him a faculty position at Berklee College of Music. Stein is an experienced author, recording artist, teacher, and clinician. He has performed as a leader or a sideman with some of the world's finest jazz acts, and his compositions and performances cover the spectrum of jazz styles. A prolific recording artist as a leader (in addition to the contributions he has made to other artists' projects), he has also published educational columns in Just Jazz Guitar magazine for many years, focusing on composition and arranging for jazz guitar. Berklee Press has published Stein's arranging materials in Berklee Jazz Standards for Solo Guitar, and he has compiled the compositional materials into two additional books: Composing Blues for Jazz Performance and Composing Tunes for Jazz Performance.
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