Charlie Byrd(1925-1999)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Jazz composer and guitarist, noted for using his fingers in the
classical style, rather than a flat pick in the typical jazz style, to
play his instrument. Inspired by the Belgian guitarist Django Reinhardt, he
later studied classical guitar under the self-trained Spanish maestro
Andrés Segovia. In the early 1960's he was among the first musicians to
popularize Brazil's soulful Bossa Nova sound in the United
States.
