Evan Haga, music journalist and editor The Tony Williams Lifetime (featuring John McLaughlin), “Emergency” At its apex, jazz-rock guitar delivers the most bracing elements of a handful of ...

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 ...

The metal guitarist found rebirth and rejuvenation when he overheard a John Coltrane album being remastered in a nearby ...

In Christian’s hands, the Gibson ES-150 electrified jazz guitar and foregrounded the guitar player as a band leader. It was Gibson’s first successful ‘electric Spanish’ guitar, inaugurating electric ...

Modern jazz guitar, for lack of a better term, describes the new players who took the traditional forms and twisted them asunder. The new generation has absorbed swing, bop, and blues—but also free ...

Free summer music guide: See 100-plus shows without dropping a dime In the world of jazz, however, these are the best of times for guitar fans, and one needn’t look far to find astonishing ...

Leigh Fuge is a guitar player and content creator with a love for all things '80s. When he’s not creating gear demos for his Youtube channel he’s teaching students via his online guitar course Right ...

In 1939, Charlie Christian auditioned for Benny Goodman, who heard the future and hired the electric jazz guitar pioneer on the spot, forever changing the sound of jazz. Still, as forward thinking ...

Williams also began playing music, and when he was 13, he began attending the Escuela Libre de Musica performing arts school to study classical guitar.

There are 1,001 stories worth telling about George Freeman—guitarist, raconteur, raucous traffic cop at the five corners of jazz, blues, and funk—but I think two do a lot of the heavy lifting ...