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 ...

Jazz doesn't have to be dauntingThe world of jazz guitar is vast. When we think of the leading players from all walks of jazz we think of highly skilled, virtuoso players who effortlessly comp complex ...

Best jazz guitars: Our top picks You could throw a dart at the D’Angelico hollowbody catalogue and come up trumps with a top-quality archtop for jazz. But the D’Angelico Excel EXL-1, a largely ...

If you go back far enough, it gets hard to tell genres apart. Just under a century ago, it wasn’t totally clear yet what was jazz and what was blues, or what was becoming R&B and what would soon ...

Dave Corbus Dave Corbus, instructor of jazz guitar, combines a background steeped in diverse music styles including blues, bebop, classical and world music. He came to the Denver area after playing 10 ...

Prior to the advent of electrical amplification, the role of the guitar in jazz was strictly that of a chorded rhythm instrument. But as soon as guitarists could plug into an amplifier, the ...

Bucky Pizzarelli, a tasteful sage of jazz guitar who spent the first phase of his career as a prolific session player and the latter as a celebrated patriarch, died on Wednesday in Saddle River, N.J.

Jazz Guitar Virtuoso (Yazoo, 1990) Eddie was the first jazz guitar virtuoso. Playing for Paul Whiteman and Bing Crosby, Eddie paved the way for every guitar soloist in the future. "Feeling My Way" is ...