Video: Jazz Guitarist Mark Wingfield on Playing Synths and Samples with Guitar, Alternate Chord Voicings & More

Sep 6,2011
More...

Kevin Kastning and Mark Wingfield on Improvising an Album

Sep 20,2011
KEVIN KASTNING AND MARK Wingfield strive to transcend the traditional limitations of their instruments—albeit in very different ways. Kastning typically plays custom acoustic guitars such as 12-string extended baritone, More...

GP Flashback: Emily Remler, September 1981

Sep 16,2011
Seldom does a woman venture into what is generally considered the man’s realm of jazz guitar. Indeed, most people can only name a handful of famous female guitarists in any genre. But, at 23 years old, Emily Remler is making More...

Nguyên Lê

Oct 21,2011
French guitarist and composer Nguyên Lê is arguably the most potent creative force in the rapidly evolving world-jazz-fusion movement. Born of Vietnamese parentage and raised in the international musical mecca of Paris, Lê More...

Bill Frisell and Vinicius Cantuária on Lagrimas Mexicanas

May 1,2011
BILL FRISELL AND VINICIUS Cantuária have crossed paths numerous times over the years, including working together in Frisell’s groundbreaking world-fusion ensemble the Intercontinentals in 2003, and appearing on each other’s More...

John Renbourn on Davy Graham

Mar 30,2011
“I could go on for hours about Davy,” says legendary fingerstyle guitarist John Renbourn. “Back when I was a teenager, the craze was skiffle, which was the British attempt at playing American folk music. Because of skiffle, More...

Ask Barney Kessel!

Jun 14,2011
What do you do when you comp behind a singer? Comp is an abbreviated term for "accompaniment," but a particular kind of accompaniment. Instead of playing some steady, recurring rhythm pattern behind a vocalist or instrumental More...

GP Flashback: Byrd, Kessel and Ellis - Unbeatable Jazz Trio, October 1974

Jun 14,2011
“The Great Guitars!" That's their name, and that's not over-stating the case a bit. Barney Kessel, HerbEllis, Charlie Byrd are a historic jazz trio—one that combines 90 years of professional experience, and one that More...

Exclusive Jack Bruce and Vernon Reid Announce Formation of New Jazz Fusion Supergroup Spectrum Road

Feb 7,2011
During an historic interview at Music Player headquarters on February 4, 2011, bass icon Jack Bruce (Cream) and innovative guitarist Vernon Reid (Living Colour) announced that the Tony Williams Lifetime Tribute band More...

THE NEW UNIVERSE MUSIC FESTIVAL

Feb 25,2011
GUITAR GREATNESS DESCENDED upon Raleigh, North Carolina, on the weekend of November 20 and 21, when John McLaughlin, Jimmy Herring, Wayne Krantz, and Alex Machacek performed at the historic Lincoln Theater as part of the More...

Tim Brady

Feb 1,2011
Canadian guitarist and composer Tim Brady has been doing his best to increase the electric guitar’s presence in classical music since 1988. “Brahms didn’t write much electric guitar music,” he quips. Brady’s own work runs the More...

Pierre Bensusan

Feb 1,2011
Composition is a marathon, not a sprint, for acoustic guitarist and vocalist Pierre Bensusan. Throughout his 35-year career, the French-Algerian virtuoso has treated his pieces as something to nurture and evolve over More...

Rez Abbasi

Feb 1,2011
Pakistani-born guitarist and composer Rez Abbasi is in many ways the embodiment of East-West fusion. His family relocated to Los Angeles when he was four years old, he later traveled to India as a student of master tabla player More...

Normalizer2 Project Audio Samples

Aug 25,2011
Here are the audio examples from my September 2011 GP story The Normalizer2 Project: More...

Robben Ford and John Scofield Trade Blue Notes

Aug 18,2011
IN NOVEMBER OF 2010, THE BLUE Note in New York offered the rare opportunity to see Robben Ford and John Scofield playing together, in a quartet with drummer Toss Panos and bassist Andy Hess. Though both guitarists can play More...

Next