Who, The Stones and Zeppelin. I
loved all the British stuff. I mean,
they had been listening to all
the right records that somehow I
didn’t get to hear as a kid!”
Raised in a musical family, he
had piano lessons and played
saxophone as a kid, but was
largely self taught on guitar. Herington learned how to play the
blues from the British bands. He
played in bands in high school
with gigs at school dances and
bars in Asbury Park. He began
getting serious about learning
guitar once he reached college
where he saw guitarists who
were far more disciplined.
Herington studied classical and
jazz composition and theory at
Rutgers University, but his real
career training was bolstered by
private study with the great jazz
guitarist, Harry Leahey. He studied with him for several years and
was serious about learning jazz
and improving his technique. He
followed that training with sever-
Watch the Jon Herington Band Perform “I Ain’t Got You”
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