Jeff Linsky (born April 12, 1952) is an American fingerstyle guitarist who plays Latin and

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Career

Linsky was born in Whittier, California. When he was ten, he began playing guitar. During the following year, he played at a church dance and attended a concert by classical guitarist

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. In his teens he often went to a jazz club in Hermosa Beach, but because he was too young to enter, he remained outside to listen to the music. A solo performance by saxophonist Sonny Stitt made a strong impression on him. He took lessons from

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and Vicente Gomez. From the early 1970s to the late 1980s, he lived in Hawaii. He toured as a solo musician in the U.S. and Europe, then moved to San Francisco in 1988, and his music began to get more attention.

Discography

* ''Compositions'' (Insight 1977) * ''Up Late'' (Concord Picante, 1988) * ''Simpatico'' (Kamei, 1991) * ''Solo'' (GSP 1992) * ''Rendezvous'' (Kamei, 1992) * ''Angel's Serenade'' (Concord Picante, 1994) * ''In the Enchanted Garden'' with Kevin Kern (Real Music, 1996) * ''California'' (Concord Vista, 1996) * ''Passport to the Heart'' (Concord Vista, 1997) * ''Guitarra Latina Romantica'' (2013)

DVD

* ''Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar Solos'' (

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, 2003) * ''Latin Jazz Gutar'' (Mel Bay, 2008)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Linsky, Jeff American acoustic guitarists American male guitarists American jazz guitarists Fingerstyle guitarists 1952 births Living people 20th-century American guitarists 20th-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians