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Excerpt from “In The Style Of Torsten Goods, Vol. 1“ Check out “In The Style Of Torsten Goods“ lesson series: Torsten improvises over the changes of a blues in the key of F. Lesson excerpt. About: Torsten Gutknecht was born in 1980 in Düsseldorf. His first steps as a guitarist were typically influenced by rock and pop. While he was still in school he attended workshops given by Jim Hall and John Scofield in New York, and frequently visited guitarist Bireli Lagrene in France. He is one of the few guitarists trying to play in the Smooth Jazz tradition in the style of George Benson while still trying to develop a personal style. In 2000 he became a member of the German Youth Jazz Orchestra and in 2001 he recorded the first album under his name Manhattan Walls. In 2005 Goods was the only European to be chosen by Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter for the final round of the “Thelonious Monk Jazz Guitar Competition” in Washington D.C. Since then Torsten Goods has been touring extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and the USA. During this period he has worked with the likes of George Benson, Bob James, Chris Potter, James Genus, Terri Lyne Carrington, Barbara Tucker, Dawn Tallman, Marcus Fugate, Jimmy Bruno, John Ruocco, Johannes Faber, Leszek Zadlo and Patrick Scales.
