JIM CARLTON
Jim Carlton grew up in and around the world of jazz guitar. His dad, Ben, was a top studio musician in Chicago in the forties and fifties and was the staff guitarist at WGN for many years. Jim began his music career in 1962 with Jim Stafford and Gram Parsons in their high school rock band, The Legends. In addition to his playing career, Jim wrote special material for several other performers including the Smothers Brothers, Joan Rivers, Gallagher, Jim Stafford, Mason Williams and many more. He also produced two TV pilots at Universal Studios in Orlando and has written for several television shows. Jim has composed liner notes for several CDs including a series of re-released albums by such jazz guitar greats as Howard Roberts and Joe Pass as well as recordings by the Byrds, Gram Parsons, Rich Walker and Vic Juris. In the past several years Jim has contributed to many music trade publications including Vintage Guitar Magazine, the Fretboard Journal and is a regular columnist and reviewer for Just Jazz Guitar Magazine. He endorses Foggy Mountain Guitars. Jim Carlton lives in Central Florida with his wife Tricia and his Chihuahua Zorro. Conversations With Great Jazz and Studio Guitarists features in-depth interviews with 22 of the industry's most notable guitar players. Jim Carlton's candid conversations render astute insight into revered jazz guitarists, the history and development of jazz guitar and the studio scene that flourished during its Golden Era to the present day.