Dick Garcia is an American jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 guitarist.

Garcia was born in New York City

New York City

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 and was an autodidact at guitar, which he began playing when he was nine years old. He played with Tony Scott

Tony Scott

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 in 1950, and following this with Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. , famously called Bird or Yardbird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer....

, George Shearing

George Shearing

Sir George Shearing, OBE was an Anglo-American jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for MGM Records and Capitol Records. The composer of over 300 titles, he had multiple albums on the Billboard charts during the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s...

, and Joe Roland

Joe Roland

Joe Roland is an American jazz vibraphonist.Roland began as a clarinetist, attending the Institute of Musical Art from 1937 to 1939. He started on xylophone in 1940 and began playing vibraphone in the middle of the decade, playing in jazz clubs in New York City...

. He was with Scott again in 1955, and then recorded with Milt Buckner

Milt Buckner

Milt Buckner was an American jazz pianist and organist, originally from St. Louis, Missouri. He was orphaned as a child, but an uncle in Detroit taught him to play...

, Johnny Glasel

Johnny Glasel

Johnny Glasel , is an American jazz trumpeter.Glasel attended the Yale School of Music early in the 1950s and then played in the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and chamber music ensembles alongside gigs with jazz musicians...

, Joe Puma

Joe Puma

Joe Puma was an American jazz guitarist.Puma's first professional experience came with Joe Roland in 1949-50. He acted as a session musician for many jazz musicians of the 1950s, including Louie Bellson, Artie Shaw, Eddie Bert, Herbie Mann, Mat Mathews, Chris Connor, and Paul Quinichette; he also...

, Lenny Hambro

Lenny Hambro

Leonard William Hambro was a journeyman jazz musician who played woodwinds, primarily alto saxophone, with a host of bands, orchestras, and jazz notables from the early 1940s through the mid-1960s, and continued as a session musician, music producer, booking agent, and entertainment coordinator...

, and Bobby Scott

Bobby Scott (musician)

Bobby Scott was an American musician, record producer, and songwriter.-Biography:He was born Robert William Scott in Mount Pleasant, New York, and became a pianist, vibraphonist, and singer, and could also play the accordion, cello, clarinet, and double bass...

. He released an album as a leader on Dawn Records

Dawn Records

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 in 1956 entitled Message from Garcia, featuring Bill Evans

Bill Evans

William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...

, Tony Scott, Gene Quill

Gene Quill

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, and Frank Isola

Frank Isola

Frank Isola was an American jazz drummer. Died in Detroit, Michigan, on December 12, 2004.Isola was born and raised in Detroit and was heavily influenced by Gene Krupa. He played in the U.S. military during World War II , and then studied and performed in California with Bobby Sherwood and Earle...

. In the 1960s he toured with Shearing again as well as with Kai Winding

Kai Winding

Kai Chresten Winding was a popular Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer. He is well known for a successful collaboration with fellow trombonist J. J. Johnson.-Biography:...

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