Bachman met Lenny Breau when they were teens in Winnipeg and continues to honor the late guitarist's legacy with a deep ...

While still in high school, Upchurch started playing with popular neighborhood groups such as the Cool Gents, who were ...

Jazz guitar has always been a dynamic art form, adapting to new styles while staying rooted in tradition. From the early swing and bebop pioneers to today’s fusion innovators, guitarists have expanded ...

This studio is led by Tim Wendel and includes BM, MM and DMA students. At all levels, students develop and maintain a solid foundation for all aspects of playing jazz guitar—including technique, ear ...

Pat Metheny performs during the Jazz Foundation of America. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/ Courtesy of Getty Images for Jazz Foundation Of America) Two hours of musical mastery from one of jazz’s most ...

Jazz guitarist extraordinaire John Pisano, renowned for his solid rhythm, melodic solo lines and generosity, died May 2 at his home in Studio City with his wife Jeanne by his side. He was 93 years old ...

Jazz guitar…. There is no other pairing of words that strike fear into the hearts of guitar players more than those two. The world of jazz guitar is vast. When we think of the leading players from all ...

The creative jazz guitarist Jim Hall died on Dec. 10, 2013. We remember Hall with a five-song introduction to his music by guitarist Rez Abbasi, originally published Dec. 1, 2009. The most difficult ...

Ask a dozen jazz guitar fans for their all-time top guitar albums and The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery is likely to be high on every list. If it isn't, chances are Montgomery's live set ...

Unlike the structured precision of a piano-driven quartet, saxophone-guitar albums thrive on spontaneity. Imagine a smoky jazz club where the deep, soulful wail of a saxophone weaves effortlessly with ...

Honour the life and legacy of George Lindsay Benjamin Wall by encouraging and rewarding undergraduate jazz guitar students enrolled in the B.F.A. Jazz Performance program. The George L. B. Wall Prize ...

The jazz guitar of Wes Montgomery, deemed "the biggest, warmest, fattest sound on record," still reverberates today, nearly forty years after his death. The most influential, widely admired jazz ...