“Despite his late and haphazard start, Cecchini also became a renowned teacher of both jazz and classical guitar. Students traveled from out of state to pick his brain, and by the early 1980s lines formed down the stairs of his Chicago school in the evenings. His own formal training, of course, had been those free clarinet lessons. “I’d say I’m 98 percent self-taught,†he told me. He switched between instruments and found his way through trial and error. Epstein, David J. . Range (p. 69). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. ”
