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

Sep 6,2011
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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...

12 Rhythm Guitar Greats

Mar 22,2012
Richard Thompson  (From top to bottom) Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper, Cornell Dupree, Larry Carlton, Jimmy Page, Jimmy Nolan, Grady Martin More...

Oz Noy's Twisted Blues

Mar 22,2012
The title of Oz Noy’s new instrumental album, Twisted Blues Volume 1[Abstract Logix], might have taken a few of his fans by surprise—but one listen to any cut on this CD should be enough to convince anyone that “blues” is a More...

Sharon Isbin's Guitar Passion

Feb 6,2012
Sharon Isbin isn’t your average internationally renowned, multiple Grammy Award winning, Billboard chart-topping female classical guitarist. No. In addition to making dozens of recordings of music from the traditional and More...

Larry Coryell

Feb 6,2012
File Larry Coryell’s CDs under “Jazz” if you must—but for the past five decades the man many consider to be the Godfather of fusion guitar has been creating artistically unfettered and genredefying music that transcends easy More...

“Freaky” Pete Murano On Context

Feb 3,2012
Pete Murano gets his freak on at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The biggest buzz band in New Orleans is Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, which runs the gamut from traditional jazz to searing More...

Dennis Rea’s Metamorphic Rock

Feb 3,2012
Although he has been involved with numerous projects in recent years, Seattle- based guitarist and composer Dennis Rea is currently focused on Moraine, a quintet that showcases his multifaceted musical approach. “Moraine is More...

Chris Taylor’s Semicentennial Debut

Feb 2,2012
After a short stint at Berklee in 1981, Chris Taylor returned to New York City and began gigging, taking whatever jobs he could get for a few years. “Then I started to do more studio work and writing and a lot of R&B More...

Guitar Man George Benson

Feb 14,2012
“I was in Jack McDuff’s band years ago,” says legendary jazz guitarist George Benson, reminiscing about his stint touring with the soul-jazz organist. “One night, he took me aside and said, ‘I don’t know how to evaluate you. More...

Nels Cline’s Dirty Baby

Apr 23,2012
A provocative mating of art and music, Dirty Baby [Cryptogramophone] is guitarist and composer Nels Cline and poet and producer David Breskin's re-contextualization of Ed Ruscha's "Censor Strip" paintings. The lavish double-CD More...

Oscar Penas From Now On

Apr 16,2012
Hailing from Spain, the birthplace of the modern guitar, Oscar Peñas’ approach to guitar playing and composition is transcontinental, combining contemporary jazz with traditional Spanish music and music from Latin More...

Stian Westerhus: Pitch Black & Star Spangled

Apr 16,2012
Stian Westerhus certainly resembles a rock star: tight pants, boots, vintage military coat, long spiky hair waving as he attacks his instrument with punk-like fervor. But unlike, say, Slash, he is often alone on stage, save for More...

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