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Jimmy Gourley: Cool Guitar

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Marc Myers
Sep 28, 2021
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I last posted about guitarist Jimmy Gourley in 2020 (go here). As noted at the time, Gourley was an American born in St. Louis who moved to Paris in 1951 and died in France in 2008. Enamored of Jimmy Raney's playing style, a combination of several picking techniques, Gourley performed and recorded with a range of French jazz artists in Paris as well as …

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