Bumpin’,' jazz legend Wes Montgomery’s first Billboard charting album, is getting a vinyl reissue through Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series.
The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding their own way. Fourteen musicians and writers share their favorites. Credit..
James Blood Ulmer is among the most distinctive and influential electric guitarists who has made a career built on left turns and reinvention. One of the most expressive guitarists on the planet, ...
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Veteran jazz guitarist Rich Goldstein digs into soul jazz roots on his new album, “Into the Blue,” set for release Sept. 27 via Truth Revolution Records. In this new work, Goldstein, a longtime ...
Bill Frisell, one of the world’s most acclaimed jazz guitarists, was puzzled. At the conclusion of the first of his two Oct.
Recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, award-winning guitarist and composer Peter Sprague is working intensely on a number of new projects (and his 23-year-old concerto).
Award-winning jazz guitarist Louis Mhlanga has always let music take center stage. For the 67-year-old award-winning Zimbabwean, music has been the sole focus of his life. “I did nothing else except ...
Dublin's finest export? Not Guinness, but Irish jazz guitarist Louis Stewart (January 5, 1944—August 20, 2016). A guitarist of tremendous skill, invention and personality, Stewart was certainly the ...
Dave Corbus teaches the jazz guitar majors at the University of Colorado Boulder. This includes BM, MM and DMA students. At all levels, Corbus works with his students to develop and maintain a solid ...
As different as George Harrison and Jerry Garcia may have been as guitarists, it would appear that their influences both came from the same special talent.