John Stein is a jazz guitarist and teacher from Kansas City, Missouri. Born: 1949 (age 74 years), Kansas City, MO

A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Stein took his first guitar lesson when he was seven and his first jazz lesson when he was thirteen. In 1967, he attended Beloit College, but he dropped out and moved to Vermont. He worked in local clubs playing rock music, then took jazz lessons from a pianist. When he was thirty, he attended the Berklee College of Music and taught there after he graduated. He received a master’s degree in education from Harvard and also plays double bass. His first album, Hustle Up!, was released in 1995.