Jack Petersen (guitarist)
| Jack Petersen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jack Leroy Petersen October 25, 1933 Elk City, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Occupation | Jazz guitarist, collegiate jazz educator, composer, pianist, arranger, clinician |
| Employer |
Berklee (1963–1965) North Texas (1970s–1988) North Florida (1988–1999) |
Jack Leroy Petersen (born October 25, 1933 Elk City, Oklahoma) is an American jazz guitarist, pianist, composer, arranger, music publisher, music clinician, and renowned pioneer in jazz education who revolutionized guitar education. He was a pedagogical architect for jazz guitar and jazz improvisation at three institutions of higher learning:
First full-time jazz guitar teacher at the Berklee College of Music (1962–1965 – Inaugural Chair, Guitar Department)
Longstanding and influential jazz guitar artist in residence at the University of North Texas College of Music (1976–1988 – Resident Artist, Jazz Guitar, Improv).
Joining his close colleague, Rich Matteson, who was recruited from North Texas to build a new program at the University of North Florida focusing on jazz, Petersen built a jazz guitar program (1988–1995; fully retiring 1999 – Resident Artist and Associate Professor).
His father, Harold Petersen (April 24, 1904 Beemer, Nebraska – December 28, 1971 Denton, Texas) had worked for LTV and his mother, Effie Ellen Petersen, née Smith (July 7, 1900 Hammon, Oklahoma — May 29, 1974 Denton, Texas) had worked at Russel-Newman Manufacturing Company for 19 years.
When Jack Petersen was 5, his family moved to Denton, Texas. He began playing guitar when he was 16 (about 1949), his initial influence being Western Swing.
Petersen won a course in guitar from a radio contest. The teacher was Bob Hames, an ex-GI attending North Texas from Wolfe City, TX. Hames introduced Petersen – and Petersen's friend, Dick Crockett – to jazz recordings of Carl Kress, Tal Farlow, Chuck Wayne, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, Barry Galbraith, Remo Palmieri, Oscar Moore, and Charlie Christian.
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