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James Stanley Hall (December 4, 1930 \u2013 December 10, 2013) was an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Early life and education[edit]<\/strong><\/span> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Hall_(musician)” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Read more at Wikipedia” button_alignment=”center” _builder_version=”4.25.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_layout=”dark” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” locked=”off” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.0″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n
Born in Buffalo, New York, Hall moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, during his childhood. Hall’s mother played the piano, his grandfathers violin, and his uncles guitar. He began playing the guitar at the age of 10, when his mother gave him an instrument as a Christmas present. At 13 he heard Charlie Christian play on a Benny Goodman record, which he calls his “spiritual awakening”. As a teenager in Cleveland, he performed professionally, and also took up the double bass. Hall’s major influences since childhood were tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Paul Gonsalves, and Lucky Thompson. While he copied out solos by Charlie Christian, and later Barney Kessel, it was horn players from whom he took the lead. In 1955, Hall attended the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he majored in composition, studying piano and bass in addition to theory.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n
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