My Morning Jacket's day-closing set on the New Orleans Jazz Fest's Gentilly Stage opened with the heartbeat pulse of Bo Koster's keyboards and singer-guitarist Jim James wondering if he should wet the ...

My Morning Jacket's day-ending performance on the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival's Gentilly Stage on Saturday would have been memorable if the band had only burned through its repertoire with ...

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..

Unlike the structured precision of a piano-driven quartet, saxophone-guitar albums thrive on spontaneity. Imagine a smoky jazz club where the deep, soulful wail of a saxophone weaves effortlessly with ...

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 ...

How do you define what makes the best jazz guitars? That’s a question for the ages. Perhaps any good electric guitar could do the job, as long as it wasn’t fitted with nuclear-powered humbuckers. Why ...