After being named as a member of Fender’s Class of 2024 and lauded as a 2025 Spotify Artist to Watch, Maya Delilah makes good ...

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.

“I’d gotten to know Miles by then, and I’d go by his house a lot in those days. He would call up and say, ‘Come by the house, ...

Nolan’s friendship with the family continued beyond Harrison’s death in 2001. And after plucking up courage during one ...

Gilmour says that as a young guitarist he worked out blues solos by Clapton, Hendrix and Howlin' Wolf that later informed his ...

Maya Delilah's soul-soothing blend of jazz, pop, and, well, soul, broke through during the pandemic, but the guitarist and singer-songwriter was far from just a fleeting trend.The artist doubled down ...

Many know of guitarist Charlie Christian, but how many have studied his playing or even listened to one of his solos? Christian could be considered the most influential jazz guitarist ever. He ...

Metheny even called Hall “the father of modern jazz guitar”. Jim’s harmonic awareness, rhythmic placement and dynamic sensitivity are what sets him apart.

He found that learning to play jazz guitar, however, wasn’t an automatic. “It was almost like starting over,” Skolnick says. “The language was so different from what I knew.

Purcell’s 160-page thesis tackled Peter Bernstein, a New York City musician he called “one of the greatest living jazz-guitar players.” The military again provided a door — and Purcell ...

“When I was 14, my ears were trained by listening for hours on end to American jazz guitar players and trying to understand their solos and their lines, and that’s what I developed,” he told ...