Welcome to the Freddie Green Web Site.

Devoted to jazz rhythm guitar and the man who epitomized the big band guitar style.

This site is dedicated to the master of the rhythm guitar - Freddie Green - and exists to collect and share information that will aid the big band jazz guitarist in keeping this style alive and well. Musicians, scholars, and Freddie Green fans from around the world continue to collaborate in assembling technical explanations, transcriptions, historical information, and photos for this on-line resource.

This web site is strictly a not-for-profit, educational endeavor. All research, writing, and editing is done by volunteers. The site is continuously expanding. We hope that you will find it useful throughout its evolution.

If you have additional resources, references, quotes, photos, or other useful information to contribute, please contact us. Also, please visit our Visitor Comments page and leave a note, or read what others have to say about the Freddie Green web site.

Rhythm guitar is like vanilla extract in cake.
You can't taste it when it's there, but you know when it's left out.

Be sure to check out Bucky Pizzarelli's new CD, "5 for Freddie: A Tribute to Freddie Green". Our Chief Editor, Michael Pettersen wrote the liner notes for Bucky.

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Now you can hear Freddie Green speak! Here's a brief audio excerpt from an interview that aired during a National Public Radio tribute to Count Basie in 2004.