Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Julian Lage You may have heard that jazz guitar players artfully play ‘wrong’ notes. However, if you just play at random frets you ...

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. Credit..

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 ...

The ii-V-I has been referred to as a chord progression, a turnaround, and a cadence depending on the circumstances it is used. It is most known as the jazz progression as it is the backbone of many ...

Over the last 30 years, jazz guitarist John Abercrombie has made nearly 50 recordings for the adventurous ECM label, playing a lead role in many of them. On his new CD, The Third Quartet, Abercrombie ...

Back in the early 1980s, Alex Skolnick was pretty much like any other teenager. He loved electric guitar players like Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads and George Lynch. “I was caught up in the whole ...

Independently, guitarists Calvin Keys, Lloyd Gregory, and Carl Lockett are three of the most skilled musicians the San Francisco Bay Area has to offer. While each has played on stage and in the studio ...