Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar - Volume 2

Ton Van Bergeyk launched his career as a musician during the late 1960s playing blues Harp and Ukulele in a duo setting, but he then switched to the acoustic Guitar and quickly learned and mastered the instrument usingfingerstyle techniques. He started to transcribe and arrange classic ragtime compositions for fingerpicking Guitar and was discovered by Stefan Grossman during a tour in Holland.

Stefan produced Ton's first solo album,Famous Ragtime Guitar Solos, in 1973. This contained 14 of Ton's arrangements of classic ragtime pieces and became a best seller. In 1975, Ton's second solo album, Guitar Instrumentals To Tickle Your Fingers, wasreleasedcontaining transcriptions and arrangements of novelty rags, early jazz and popular tunes of the 1930s and 1940s.

In 1980, Ton's third solo album was released and continued his exploration of arrangements for solofingerpicking Guitar, this time with a repertoire covering jazz, blues, contemporary pop and country and even Mexican folklore. This album was titled Lulu's Back In Town, Hot Guitar Solos. Ton also participated in severalanthology projects, i.e. Novelty Guitar Instrumentals, I Got Rhythm, Masters of Ragtime Guitar, The Entertainer and How To Play Ragtime Guitar. All of Ton's albums are available as CDs as well as direct downloads from StefanGrossman's Guitar Workshop, (www.guitarvideos.com) and include tab PDF booklets on the CDs.

Ton recorded the audio lesson series Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar to teach phrase by phrase and measure by measure someof his most requested arrangements. This second volume presents Ton Van Bergeyk's renditions of Duke Ellington's Jubilee Stomp and Take It Easy, Thelonious Monk's classic Blue Monk and theGeorge Gershwin standard I Got Rhythm.