Fuuny how stuff comes up on Mudcat! I was taught to play guitar in the late fifties by a guy called Jack Llewellyn, who was then quite old and living on his own in a crummy flat in a poor part of Coventry, England.

He did mention that he had played with a lot of bands and he certainly had some beautiful techniques - many lessons deteriorated into me sitting there open-mouthed while he played jazz classic chord sequences to me. Once he played Beethoven on a banjo (yes, really).

But just how good he was, I didn't appreciate until I read some of these sites - it seems that he played with Django and Grapelli on several recordings made around 1946.

I would dearly love to know a bit more about him - I regret that as a teenage guitar fanatic, all I wanted to do was play rock 'n roll licks, which must've made me a bit of a disappointment to him and I never bothered to keep in touch after deciding to quit lessons. If anyone has any information, PM me please!