I was searching for some fingerstyle jazz today and came across Laurence Juber. Though I have played for decades, and read some of the niche magazines for players, I was not aware of Mr. Juber, which seems like a serious oversight.
His website says the following about him:
A music graduate of London’s Goldsmith’s College, he was featured guitar soloist with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra before becoming established as a studio musician in the mid-1970’s. First internationally recognized as lead guitarist in Beatle Paul McCartney’s Wings, with whom he won a Grammy, Juber has since established himself as world-renowned guitar virtuoso and entertainer.
LaurenceJuber.com
He has more than two dozen albums to credit, the latest of which is his fourth album in a series of arrangements for solo guitar of Beatles songs called The Fab 4th.
Here is Mr. Juber with an impossibly beautiful version of my absolutely favourite Beatle song, “I Will” from the aforementioned The Fab 4th album. By the way, here’s a link to an Acoustic Guitar review of the album. Nice read.