![Animato Animato](https://musicgrid.me/wp-content/themes/standard-child/timthumb.php?src=https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/1eb94e651baa652b214063f8c55f55d2.jpg&w=400&h=400&q=100)
John Laird Abercrombie (December 16, 1944 – August 22, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist, composer and bandleader. His work explored jazz fusion, post bop, free jazz and avant-garde jazz. Abercrombie studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He recorded his debut album, Timeless with Manfred Eicher's ECM label, and has recorded principally with this label since. Abercrombie has played with Billy Cobham, Ralph Towner, Jack DeJohnette, Charles Lloyd, Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker. Read more on Last.fm
A lot's changed since we got started a few years ago, but our mission never has: make ways to discover and discuss music. We've evolved to better accomplish that mission. Read more on our new direction if you're interested.
We're now curating killer music content at TuneDig.com and sending out what we call the TuneDig Weekly: 5 of the best music + tech nuggets delivered directly to your inbox each week, carefully curated by our team of real human beings and guaranteed to be killer. We'd love for you to sign up and give it a shot: