Starting off with Jazz Guitar Technique is a great way for jazz players to learn the basics of improvisational guitar. Though several books claim they can help the struggling guitarist few if any have ...

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 ...

JAZZ'NIQUE: In episode 4 of this season of Jazz it Up!, Stanley Jordan performed on piano and guitar simultaneously. In this episode he demonstrates his “touch" technique by comparing it to the usual ...

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 ...

French jazz guitarist and composer Jean “Django” Reinhardt’s life is the stuff of legend. Two of his fingers became paralyzed as the result of a fire early in his career, but he persevered and went on ...

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 ...

Long before the amplification and electrification of musical instruments, there was a simple truth: The louder you could play, the more likely you would be heard. In jazz, tubas overwhelmed basses, ...

The late guitarist, who would have just turned 100, blew the minds of Carlos Santana, John Fahey and more with his hypnotic technique and expansive creative vision San Francisco, early 1962. For ...