Howard Roberts - Essential Classics, Vol. 956- Howard Roberts (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Howard Mancel Roberts (October 2, 1929 – June 28, 1992) was an American jazz guitarist, educator, and session musician.
Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Damon and Vesta Roberts, and began playing guitar at the age of 8 — a Gibson manufactured $18 Kalamazoo student model acoustic given to him by his parents at Christmas. He took lessons from Horace Hatchett, who commented to Roberts' father that Roberts, at the age of 15, "… has his own style of playing and there's nothing else I can show him. He plays better than I do." By the time he was 15, he was playing professionally locally, predominantly blues-based music, where he learned from a number of black musicians, trumpeter Art Farmer being among that group. In 1992 Roberts was quoted in The Independent Newsletter by Steve Voce saying he considered that early experience to be "the most valuable" to him in his development as a player. At the time Roberts and his close friend and roommate, guitarist Howard Heitmeyer, would start their day by practicing 3 or 4 hours, catch an afternoon movie, returning to practice until they went to the clubs in the evening.

TRACKLIST

1. Howard Roberts - When the Sun Comes out
2. Howard Roberts - Terpsichore
3. Howard Roberts - Relaxin' at Camarillo
4. Howard Roberts - All the Things You Are
5. Howard Roberts - Lover Man
6. Howard Roberts - The More I See You
7. Howard Roberts - Ah-Moore
8. Howard Roberts - My Shining Hour
9. Howard Roberts - Will You Still Be Mine
10. Howard Roberts - Easy Living
11. Howard Roberts - Indian Summer
12. Howard Roberts - Godchild
13. Howard Roberts - Have You Met Miss Jones
14. Howard Roberts - A Ghost of a Chance
15. Howard Roberts - I've Got a World on a String
16. Howard Roberts - An Orchid for Miss Sterling
17. Howard Roberts - Indiana
18. Howard Roberts - Serenata Burlesca
19. Howard Roberts - Jillzie
20. Howard Roberts - Sweet Georgia Brown



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