George Golla
Guitarist
1935 –
Who is George Golla?
George Golla AM is an Australian jazz guitarist. In 1959 he commenced a long-term working musical partnership with clarinetist/flautist/saxophonist Don Burrows that continued for almost forty years. On 10 June 1985, Golla was made a Member of the Order of Australia with the citation, For service to music. In 1987, The George Golla Orchestra won the inaugural ARIA Fine Arts Award category of 'Best Jazz Album' for Lush Life.
He has made hundreds of recordings, including The Don Burrows Quartet at the Sydney Opera House, and Steph'n'Us with Stephane Grappelli during a tour with Grappelli and Burrows.
George Golla was a teacher at the Academy of Guitar in Bondi alongside Don Andrews, specializing in Jazz and Classical guitar, he wrote several books on theory, scales and the modes.
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