Mr. Freeman's guitar solos were throaty and daring and danced around the sax work of greats like Gene Ammons and Charlie ...

Steely Dan co-leaders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker cultivate the most sympathetic characters of their career on the ten ...

First, some context. The electric guitar came about in the early 1930s due to the necessity of being heard in increasingly larger clubs by jazz and big band ensembles, with the smaller sound hole ...

Jonathan Horsley has been writing about guitars and guitar culture since 2005, playing them since 1990, and regularly contributes to MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitar World. He uses Jazz III nylon ...

If you’re a guitarist, chances are you’ll be after recording yourself at some point or other. Your route to at-home or on-the-go recording is, of course, the humble audio interface – an essential and ...

Jazz, with its rich history and diverse styles, has produced countless masterpieces over the decades. This list attempts to capture the 100 most influential, innovative, and enduring jazz albums of ...

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which combines traditional jazz elements with lively improvisations, often featuring acoustic guitars and violins, rooted in Romani musical traditions. The goal of this evening is to raise a minimum ...

Wynton Marsalis says his approach to performing was influenced by his father (Credit: Natassja Ebert) Wynton Marsalis made history when he became the first musician to win classical and jazz ...

Throughout its history jazz has been in fashion and out of it – but it’s never gone away. Jazz is at its heart Black American music, but it has spawned sub-genres the world over from Nordic jazz to ...

In making the leap from the page to the screen as a 1990s-set adaptation that stretches the definition of “live-action” as much as some Disney’s modern-era remakes, The Electric State ...

So you’ve decided to take a gamble on an electric vehicle, but you’d like to keep the ante down for getting into the game. There are lots of good reasons not to spend the kids’ college fund ...