KARMA CHAMELEON
HOW AARON LEE TASJAN spent his lone semester at the Berklee College of Music says a lot about his interests as a guitar player. After winning a scholarship through a high school jazz band competition, he largely put off attending class, preferring to hole up in his room and listen to Wilco’s experimental-pop classic Yankee Hotel Foxtrot on repeat.
“Berklee was really eye-opening in a lot of ways,” he recalls. “Just sitting in the room with some of the other kids that were warming up, I thought, I’m probably not going to be a jazz guitar player for a living any time soon if this is the competition. At the time, I was really hungry to play gigs. I had a lot of hot air in my head and
