Mick Goodrick


Mick Goodrick is an American jazz guitarist who has spent most of his career as a teacher. In the early 1970s, he worked with Gary Burton and Pat Metheny.

Career

An Elvis fan, Goodrick began studying guitar in his pre-teens and was performing professionally a few years later. When he was sixteen, he became interested in jazz at a Stan Kenton Band Camp. He attended the Berklee College of Music from 1963–1967. He taught at Berklee, then spent a few years touring with Gary Burton. After returning to Boston, he settled into a career largely as an educator.
Goodrick has had many notable students, including Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny, Julian Lage, John Scofield, Lage Lund, Mike Stern, Avner Strauss, and Rale Micic. His first book, The Advancing Guitarist, is an instruction manual for guitarists of all styles. He has also written a series of books addressing the intricacies of harmonic voice leading.
Goodrick worked with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra during the 1980s and early 1990s, with Jack DeJohnette in the late 1980s, and with Steve Swallow in the late 1990s. He performed in a duo with Pat Metheny at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 2005 and with Wolfgang Muthspiel at the Jazz Standard in 2008.

Discography

As leader

With Gary Burton
With Jack DeJohnette
With Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra
With Jerry Bergonzi
  • Con Brio
  • The Ray
  • On Again
With Jimmy Mosher
  • Satyric Horn
With Gary Thomas
With Claudio Fasoli
  • Bodies
  • Cities
  • Trois Trios
  • Ten Tributes
With Harvie S
  • In a Different Light
  • Arrival
With Jim Hall
With Charlie Mariano
  • Somewhere, Out There
With Ed Sarath
With Mili Bermejo & Dan Greenspan
  • ¡Ay Amor!
With Joe Diorio
  • Rare Birds
With The Monday Night Orchestra
With Laszlo Gardony
  • Breakout
With Mika Pohjola
  • Myths & Beliefs
With Hal Crook
  • Nothing to Lose
  • Hero Worship
With Miles Donahue
  • Simple Pleasures
With Steve Swallow
  • Deconstructed
  • Always Pack Your Uniform on Top
With Wolfgang Muthspiel
  • In the Same Breath
  • Live at the Jazz Standard
With John Abercrombie
  • Noisy Old Men
With Dan Wall
With Ed Byrne
With Bruno Råberg
  • Chrysalis
With Vardan Ovsepian'
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