John Wheatcroft

John Wheatcroft is head of guitar at "Tech Music School" in London. Outside classroom he is constantly busy performing and sharing his knowledge through other media.
He regularly contributes to "Guitar World" (USA), "Guitarist" and "Guitar Techniques" magazines and he has recently released his first book, "Improvising Blues Guitar" , published by Schott Publishing.
He has toured the world with Carl Palmer (ELP) and John Jorgenson (Elton John/Hellecasters). He performed alongside artists as diverse as Mike Stern (Miles Davis), Frank Gambale (Chic Corea) and Glen Hughes (Deep Purple).
John currently fronts his own acoustic quintet exploring the music of Django Reinhardt, and is the musical director for Liverpool based jazz/soul singer Thomas Lang.