Guitar Player is a studio album by American

United States

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 jazz

Jazz

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 guitarist

Guitarist

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 Tal Farlow

Tal Farlow

Talmage Holt Farlow was an American jazz guitarist. Nicknamed the "Octopus", Farlow's extremely large hands spread over the fretboard as if they were tentacles. He is considered one of the all-time great jazz guitarists. Michael G...

. Sides 1 and 2 were recorded in October 1955 while the other half of the double album wasn't recorded until September 1969. It was released in 1974 by Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records

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Tracks

Side 1

Side 2

Side 3

Straight, No Chaser

Darn that Dream

Summertime

Sometime Ago

Side 4

I'll Remember April

My Romance

Crazy, She Calls Me

Liner notes were provided by Jim Crocket, then publisher-editor of Guitar Player Magazine.
Excerpts from liner notes: Wes Montgomery described it perfectly, "Tal came on the scene poppin' and burning". And when Talmadge Hol Farlow hit New York that first time, every jazz guitarist in the nation felt his presence.