Garry Hagberg
Active in music as a performer since the mid-1970s, Garry Hagberg started his career as a jazz guitarist in Eugene, Oregon, USA. While studying music (both classical and jazz) and philosophy, he toured the West Coast of the US with various jazz ensembles from duos to big bands, for years working in jazz clubs and concerts with his own quartet as well as with many others, during which time he appeared as a featured guitarist on a number of albums with other artists.
A long-time collaboration with legendary guitarist Howard Roberts led to The Guitar Compendium, a major three-volume guitar method covering improvisation, technique, musicianship, and theory -- the most comprehensive work of its kind. Hagberg has taught guitar in colleges and music schools for many years, and is also a professor of philosophy; he teaches theory of the arts and history of philosophy at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
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