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Jazz, Blues, 78 rpm and Guitar solos
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Biography Lonnie Johnson
AlonzoSome online sources state "Alfonzo", incorrectly. "Lonnie" Johnson
(February 8, 1899http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll. There is some dispute
over the year of his birth, and 1894 is what appears on his passport. Some
other sources give 1889. ? June 16, 1970) was an American blues and jazz
singer/guitarist who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as
the first to play single-string guitar solosGérard Herzhaft, Encyclopedia
of the Blues, 1979.
Biography
Early career Johnson was born in Orleans Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana
and raised in a family of musicians. He studied violin, piano and guitar as
a child, and learned to play various other instruments including the
mandolin, but concentrated on the guitar throughout his professional
career. "There was music all around us," he recalled, "and in my family
you'd better play something, even if you just banged
