Dance Band Chords For The Guitar by Eric Kershaw - 1946

Eric Kershaw was a London session guitarist and an author of various guitar method books, including "Dance Band Chords for the Guitar" which he wrote in Reykjavik, Iceland during World War Two.

Published in 1946, the book is described on the front cover as : " The most convenient method of chord finding ever published. Every dance-band chord for Guitar (including 9ths, 11ths' etc.,) is shown in both diagram form and musical notation and the fingering of the chord is also shown. No matter what chord you wish to play, it takes only a second to find it in this book. four-note, five-note and six-note formations given. "  

In the 1930's Eric Kershaw was heard regularly on the B.B.C. Radio programme, 'Eric Kershaw and his Rhythmic Guitars'. He subsequently performed with top bands such as Jack Parnell's Orchestra and Cyril Stapleton. In the sixties Kershaw performed for many shows in the West End including Expresso Bongo and the Benny Hill Show. Kershaw also become the jazz guitar lecturer at Leeds College of Music, U.K.(until 1981) where the guitar prize, the Eric Kershaw Guitar Award, is competed for each year by the guitar students at LCM.