Jazz Articles about Ed Gerhard

Ed Gerhard: House of Guitars

by C. Michael Bailey
October 6, 2003

Every guitarist remembers their first guitar. Often it was one of those piece-of-shit Harmonies, Silvertones, Oahues...pawnshop guitars originally sold by Sears in the sixties. The action was as high as the Washington Monument, causing hand cramps making chords in the open position. An instrumentalist’s purgatory, you think? No, these are precisely the instruments über -guitarist Ed Gerhard sought out to record is latest masterpiece, House of Guitars.

Originally form Philadelphia, Ed Gerhard began playing guitar after seeing maestro Andrés Segovia ...