Jack Eskridge is a guitarist, composer, and educator who has performed and taught full-time in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1967. As leader of the original rock groups Strawberry Window and Dandelion Wine, he helped pioneer the psychedelic sound of that era. Since the mid-1970s, he has focused on jazz and has become known for a style which has been strongly influenced by Wes Montgomery, George Benson, and the late Joe Pass, with whom he studied privately. He has taught guitar for the U.C. Berkeley Jazz Ensembles and for Diablo Valley College, and maintains a six-day-a-week teaching schedule at his studio. He performs regularly with his jazz group and is currently completing a series of guitar instruction books for publication.