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Lenny Breau was an American-Canadian guitarist who blended jazz, country, classical, and flamenco styles. He influenced many musicians, such as Chet Atkins, Pat Metheny, and Randy Bachman, and recorded several albums before his death in 1984.
Learn about Lenny Breau, one of the true geniuses of the guitar, who influenced many great players with his chordal harmonics and musical voice. Explore his biography, discography, documentary, gallery and more.
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Harold Breau and Rita Coté—better known by their stage names as Hal Lone Pine and Betty Cody—had already achieved considerable regional success as Country and Western performers when their first son, Leonard Harold Breau, was born in Auburn, Maine on August 5th, 1941. At the age of three, Lenny was singing harmony with his parents on a local radio ...
In 1957, Lenny’s parents moved to Canada to take a job with radio station CKY in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Lenny continued to play country music in his parents’ band but was beginning to learn the bebop lines of jazz guitarists such as Tal Farlow and Barney Kessel. While living in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan where they performed on radio station CHAB, Lenny ...
One of the first people to give Lenny’s career a hand up was George Sukornyk, a music lover, lawyer and business entrepreneur who had driven from Toronto to his hometown of Winnipeg at the urging of a friend who had seen Lenny perform at the Stage Door. Astounded by what he saw, Sukornyk invited Lenny to be his guest at his home in Toronto where he...
In 1966, Lenny hosted his own eponymously named TV show, which often featured his by now highly evolved solo guitar work. A year later, he managed to get a tape of one of his shows into Chet Atkins’ hands in Nashville. Atkins was then Vice President of RCA Records and immediately offered Lenny a recording contract. After some initial hesitation, Le...
Lenny was now left to his own meagre resources to manage a career that was rapidly failing. His inability to look after himself and his interests was worsened by his growing drug use. In the early 1960s, like countless other people of his generation, Lenny had begun to experiment with LSD and marijuana, claiming that these drugs enhanced his creati...
A year later, at Chet Atkins’ urging, Lenny returned to Nashville and began playing a nightly restaurant gig that Atkins had arranged for him. Although he continued to struggle with addiction, the next few years were relatively fruitful ones for Lenny particularly in terms of his recorded output. This included two excellent albums recorded in Chet ...
Lenny spent his last years in Los Angeles performing regularly at Donte’s jazz club. Recently released CDs of material recorded live during this period attest to the high level of his playing at that time. His audiences often included top jazz guitarists such as Pat Metheny, Larry Coryell and Phil Upchurch, who asked Lenny to play on an album he wa...
In the years immediately following his death, aside from the memories of friends, family members and die-hard fans, Lenny Breau’s contribution to jazz guitar was overlooked and largely forgotten. Most of his albums were either out-of-print or difficult to find. Although he had produced a book with the help of guitarist John Knowles explicating his ...
It may be tempting to view Lenny Breau’s career as a series of missed opportunities and lament his lack of commercial success. But as his close friend and band mate Ron Halldorson put it ”Lenny was successful in the ways that mattered to him—in the ways that matter to real musicians.” Halldorson’s point is well-taken. Lenny Breau’s lifelong passion...
Learn about the life and music of Lenny Breau, a virtuosic and innovative guitarist who influenced Chet Atkins and Bill Evans. Discover how he developed his unique style, recorded his masterworks and faced personal challenges.
Oct 12, 2023 · Lenny Breau was a guitar prodigy who blended jazz, flamenco, classical and country influences. He had a troubled relationship with his wife and died in mysterious circumstances in 1984, leaving his legacy largely unknown.
Watch videos of Lenny Breau, one of the greatest fingerstyle guitarists and musical minds, on his official YouTube channel. Learn about his life, music, legacy and influence on other musicians.
Jan 4, 2019 · Breau got his start at age 12 touring with his parents, popular country and western performers Hal “Lone Pine” Breau and Betty Cody. By the time he was a teenager, Lenny had mastered the Chet Atkins thumb-pick and finger-style playing and soon became fascinated by jazz.
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Learn about Lenny Breau, a Canadian jazz guitarist who combined fingerpicking, flamenco, and jazz influences in his unique style. Discover his career, recordings, legacy, and tragic death in this comprehensive biography.
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