Earl Theodore Dunbar (January 17, 1937 – May 29, 1998) was an American jazz guitarist, composer, and educator.
Dunbar collaborated with Gil Evans, Roy Haynes, Jimmy Heath, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, and Tony Williams.
[1] In 1972 he became one of the first jazz professors at Rutgers University and taught Kevin Eubanks, Vernon Reid, and Peter Bernstein.
He wrote a series of books on tonal convergence that are inspired and related to the Lydian chromatic concept.
The centerpiece of this series is entitled A System of Tonal Convergence for Improvisors Composers and Arrangers.