Chords Galore: A Systematic Approach to Voicing Chords on Guitar

Jack Leroy Petersen is an American jazz guitarist, pianist, composer, arranger, music publisher, music clinician, and renowned pioneer in jazz education who revolutionized guitar education. He was a pedagogical architect for jazz guitar and jazz improvisation at three institutions of higher learning: First full-time jazz guitar teacher at the Berklee College of Music (1962-65 - Inaugural Chair, Guitar Department) Longstanding and influential jazz guitar artist in residence at theUniversity of North Texas College of Music (1976-88 - Resident Artist, Jazz Guitar, Improv). Joining his close colleague, Rich Matteson, who was recruited from North Texas to build a new program at the University of North Florida focusing on jazz, Petersen built a jazz guitar program (1988-1995; fully retiring 1999 - Resident Artist and Associate Professor).