Career
Allaboutjazz.com referred to him as a "guitarist"s guitarist" and noted his "soulful and sophisticated finger-style arrangements". Poole began playing the guitar at the age of 14, after hearing Chet Atkins"s album Finger Style Guitar. He became a professional musician in 1966, and over the years he played with the likes of Jack McDuff, Tal Farlow, Joe Pass, Howard Alden, Jack Wilkins, Groove Holmes, Mark Murphy, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Jimmy Raney, Mundell Lowe, Cal Collins, Howard Alden, Jimmy Bruno, James Brown and others
He played Wednesday and Thursday evenings at the Stein & Vine Public in Cincinnati.
In the 1980s he performed regularly with Cal Collins as a guitar duo. Before his death from cancer in 2006, he released the Tom Antony and Marcos Sastre-produced album Heritage, a live album featuring his solo performances at Cincinnati"s Heritage Restaurant.
The book Ohio Jazz: A History of Jazz in the Buckeye State referred to him as "a legend in Cincinnati".
