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 ...

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 ...

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 is the first John Surman-authorised reissue of his seminal album released on the Island Records label in 1973 (ILPS9237) that acted as a signal delineation between what preceded it (a relatively ...

Andrew Bird‘s new album is his take on nine jazz standards from a bygone era, but he says he approached tunes like “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” and “I Fall in Love Too Easily” as if they were ...

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 ...

The recently formed Pete Roth Trio are well on their way to becoming one of the most exciting new names in modern jazz. Led by German-born, UK-based guitar instructor Pete, with session musician Mike ...

In 1939, Charlie Christian auditioned for Benny Goodman, who heard the future and hired the electric jazz guitar pioneer on the spot, forever changing the sound of jazz. Still, as forward thinking as ...