A student of jazz guitar greats Johnny Smith and Jim Hall ... triumphing in DownBeat magazine’s Best Guitarist polls on two occasions during that time. His eloquent style, with its lucid ...
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 turn into rock ’n’ roll. And the guitar was near the ...
Five new vinyl reissues are on the way from Original Jazz Classics. The Craft Recordings series is kicking off 2025 with a release slate including two Miles Davis albums, The Musings of Miles and ...
After growing up in Washington D.C., he returned to Boston to study at the Berklee College of Music and got his start as a guitar player with Blood ... During his three-year period with Miles, Mike ...
To be totally honest, it’s nigh on impossible to select the best electric guitar. Guitars come in such a variety of styles and configurations that finding a single instrument in such a crowded ...
The basic premise sounds like a “Saturday Night Live” skit. A rapper from a yesteryear superstar group finally releases his long-awaited debut album, except now he’s a flautist and the album’s all ...