Young jazz guitarist wins fans - and benefactors - in Madrid.

MADRID (Reuters) - If you're a guitar aficionado visiting the Headbanger Rare Guitar shop in Madrid, Spain, you're likely to find a teenager in a baseball cap bent over a 1955 Gibson, his nimble fingers producing jazz scales that belie his youth.

The shop, with a selection of vintage guitars carefully hung on black walls, is a second home to Pedro Gonzalez, 17, who is attracting attention in the Spanish capital for his talent playing jazz guitar.

"(His technique) seems influenced by Django Reinhardt," said Madrid-based guitarist and professor Joaquin Chacon, comparing Gonzalez to the late Belgian-born musician considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time.

This summer, Headbanger's owners organized a concert with a group of Spanish indie rock musicians to raise 2,000 euros ($2,138) for Gonzalez to study at the private Escuela de Musica Creativa in central Madrid under Chacon.


By Tracy Rucinski.
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