CHRIS FLORY
Swing / Hard Bop / Blues • United States
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American jazz guitarist. Born: November 13, 1953 in New York City, New York.
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Chris Flory played his first gig at the age of thirteen and continued playing in rock and blues bands until his late teens. He took his first jazz guitar lessons from Tiny Grimes, in Harlem, when he was seventeen. He continued studying jazz with another New York teacher for most of that year, but did not start playing jazz professionally until he was twenty and living in Providence, RI. He first led his own group there and then joined tenor player Scott Hamilton's quartet. That group temporarily disbanded in the summer of 1976 when Scott and Chris made their separate ways to New York.
In New York in the late seventies, Chris was around an impressive array of older jazz masters and played gigs with Hank Jones, Illinois Jacquet, Jo Jones, Buddy Tate and others. Scott Hamilton began
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Hard Bop
2008
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