Jazz guitar pickers are in a class of their own. Sandwiched between Tiny Grimes in the mid-1940s and early '50s and Grant Green in the 1960s and '70s was Bill Jennings. Born in Indianapolis, Jennings began recording in 1946 as a sideman in the Stuff Smith Quartet and would become a hero to Indy native and guitarist Wes Montgomery. During the early part …
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