About Ed Bickert
Edward Isaac Bickert, (November 29, 1932 – February 28, 2019) was a Canadian guitarist who played mainstream jazz and swing music. Bickert worked professionally from the mid-1950s to 2000, mainly in the Toronto area. His international reputation grew steadily from the mid-1970s onward as he recorded albums both as a bandleader and as a backing musician for Paul Desmond, Rosemary Clooney, and other artists, with whom he toured in North America, Europe and Japan. Bickert's parents were semi-professional musicians, his father playing fiddle and his mother playing piano. When he was ten years old, Bickert started playing a guitar owned by his older brother, and he was soon performing at country dances with his parents.
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