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Survey of education and influences
Although I am mainly self-taught, I have had some help during the years. My first "teacher" was my father, who taught me to always play in "position". Later on I learned that alternated picking was another way of mastering the fingerboard of the guitar.
My first official teacher was a Dutch radio guitarist called Thymen Hoolwerf (http://www.freewebs.com/thijmenhoolwerf/).
I took only about four lessons from him. Later in life I have taken part in several guitar workshops in the UK Hull (Guitar Summer School
in 1995), Wrexham and Huddersfield, France (Maussane), Norway (Bolærene, Beiarn & Søgne), Germany (Ettlingen, Darup & Kerpen-Sindorf), Italy (Ferrare & Palermo), Austria (Mayerhofen) etc.
But the most important “education” was and still is seeing and listening to great guitarists live. My former day job in the travel industry has given me ample opportunities to do just that.
This way I have come across: Kenny Burrell, Tal Farlow, Barney Kessel, Joe Pass, René Thomas and many, many more jazz guitar greats.
Playing
music means a never ending learning process; new tunes,
arrangements and chord theory etc. Therefore I have regularly participated in
jazz guitar weekends and workshops the last few years, both in Norway and
abroad, a.o. in Italy, France, the U.K. and in Germany.
The German “Jazz Gitarren Workshop” has now
launched its own website. Here you will find pictures and video recordings of
the proceedings.
Everything here is written in German.
http://jazzgitarrenfreunde.de/
Teachers I have had during various workshops through the years, in alphabetical order:
Howard Alden (US), Sheryl Bailey (UK), David Becker (US), Roni Ben-Hur (US), Gene Bertoncini (US), Les Bolger (UK), Paul Vernon Chester (UK)
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Corey Christiansen (US), Christian Eckert (D), Jacob Fischer (DK), Bruce Foreman (US), Mimi Fox (US), Wesley Gehring (D), Joe Giglio (US), Adrian Ingram (UK), Jim Hall (US), Randy Johnston (US), Vic Juris (US), Peter Leitch (US), Mundell Lowe (UK), Staffan William-Olsson (S), Øyvind Nypan (NO),
Trefor Owen (UK), Chico Pinheiro (Brazil), John Pisano (US), Hallgeir Pedersen (N), Roy Sainsbury (UK), Dave Stryker (US), Bjørn Vidar Solli (N), Pat Sprakes (UK), Jamie Taylor, Knut Værnes (N), Ulf Wakenius (S), Susan Weinert (D), Jack Wilkins (US), Andreas Öberg (S).
Tonnie playing at a student concert with excellent bass and drums in Wrexham, Wales 2010
Tonnie playing at a student concert with excellent bass and drums in Wrexham, Wales 2010
Jazz Guitar Weekend in Germany
Tonnie in Darup (Germany) Feb. 2017 holding his Forsberg 7-string.
Photo: Thomas Pricking
Tonnie in Darup (Germany) Feb. 2017 holding his Forsberg 7-string.
Photo: Thomas Pricking
I participated in the Samba Meets Jazz Workshop in Ferrara, Italy in April 2017. We had two wonderful teachers; bassist Nilson Matta and guitarist Chico Pinheiro, both hailing from Brasil, but living in New York.
Again in April 2019 I participated in a
Samba Meets Jazz Workshop this time in Palermo. Teachers were Dave Stryker (guitar) and
bassist Nilson Matta.
Tonnie and his 7-string Foster guitar rehearsing with some of the other students and teacher Nilson Matta (bass).
Photo: Alive Schiller
Tonnie and his 7-string Foster guitar rehearsing with some of the other students and teacher Nilson Matta (bass).
Photo: Alive Schiller
North Wales Jazz Guitar Weekend - May 2017
This time we had no less than three guitar teachers:
Corey Christiansen (USA), Adrian Ingram and Trefor Owen, both UK. The Wrexham Jazz Guitar Weekend was proceeded by a Jazz Guitar night at the Bijou in Cheadle.
Was again in Wrexham in May 2017 and took part in the student jam-sessions.
Was again in Wrexham in May 2017 and took part in the student jam-sessions.
On 15-16 June 2019 I participated in a Jazz Blues Workshop in Kerpen-Sindorf, Germany. The teacher was Wesley G. and it was a really worthwhile workshop!
Wesley (L), holding his "Sonntag" guitar and Tonnie (R) holding his C B Hill 7-string guitar.
Wesley (L), holding his "Sonntag" guitar and Tonnie (R) holding his C B Hill 7-string guitar.
In 2019 I participated again in a Jazz Impro summer course in Søgne (in the south of Norway).
We were divided into combos and performed two concerts for the other pupils. A picture of "my" combo can be found below. Our instructor was a wonderful jazz pianist from NYC, called Randy Ingram.
Tonnie in white, all the way to the left. Our instructor Randy Ingram is standing next to me.
Photo: Eirik Lie (our bass player)
Tonnie in white, all the way to the left. Our instructor Randy Ingram is standing next to me.
Photo: Eirik Lie (our bass player)
During a jam
session at Jazz Impro Norway 2021 in Søgne, Southern Norway
We were playing Stella By Starlight. The woman
on bass is bass instructor Ellen Brekken, all the others (including myself)
were course participants.
At the jam session 2021
At the jam session 2021
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