Like a lot of musicians, I tend to wear several hats in the recording studio. Along with engineering and production, I do a lot of my own acoustic guitar work. The issue here is that in order to ...

Jazz is littered with examples of starry duos aligning in one-off recording projects that do not quite match expectations. Often the lack of real spark comes down to too much deference being shown.

Whatever style of acoustic guitar you most want to play, it’s worth dipping a toe into as many genres as you can. Most genres have a handful of defining signature sounds. By getting those signatures ...

"Quique and I were working on a traditional Andean folk song from Chile one day called 'Tata San Juan,' " acoustic guitarist Alex de Grassi recalls. "At the same time, I was showing him the chords to ...

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 ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Check out the latest track to be shared from Lage's highly anticipated Blue Note album, The Layers, out 17 March When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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 ...

Rex "Wrecks" Bell, former owner of a popular Galveston venue and club known for its live blues, jazz and acoustic music, has ...