Mick Goodrick Explained

Mick Goodrick
Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth Date:9 June 1945
Birth Place:Sharon, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genre:Jazz
Occupation:Musician, teacher
Instrument:Guitar

Mick Goodrick (June 9, 1945 – November 16, 2022) was an American jazz guitarist who spent most of his career as a teacher. In the early 1970s, he worked with Gary Burton and Pat Metheny.

Biography

An Elvis fan, Goodrick began studying guitar in his pre-teens and was performing professionally a few years later. When he was sixteen, he became interested in jazz at a Stan Kenton Band Camp. He attended the Berklee School of Music from 1963 to 1967. He taught at Berklee, then spent a few years touring with Gary Burton. After returning to Boston, he settled into a career largely as an educator.[1]

Goodrick has had many notable students, including Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, John Scofield, Lage Lund, Mike Stern, Avner Strauss, and Rale Micic. His first book, The Advancing Guitarist, is an instruction manual for guitarists of all styles. He has also written a series of books addressing the intricacies of harmonic voice leading.

Goodrick worked with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra during the 1980s and early 1990s, with Jack DeJohnette in the late 1980s, and with Steve Swallow in the late 1990s. He performed in a duo with Pat Metheny at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 2005 and with Wolfgang Muthspiel at the Jazz Standard in 2008.

Goodrick died from the long-term effects of Parkinson's disease on November 16, 2022, at the age of 77.[2]

Discography

As leader or co-leader

As sideman

With Gary Burton

With Jack DeJohnette

With Claudio Fasoli

With Charlie Haden

With others

Selected books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Yanow. Scott. The Great Jazz Guitarists . 2013 . Backbeat . San Francisco. 978-1-61713-023-6. 83.
  2. Web site: Ellis, Andy . Remembering Mick Goodrick (1945–2022) . Premier Guitar . 17 November 2022 . 17 November 2022.

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