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..

That Hall is one of the great living jazz guitar players has been universally known for more than three decades. Other guitar players can play faster, swing harder and toss off pyrotechnic fretwork ...

In my opinion, Mickey Baker’s The Wildest Guitar is in the top five of greatest album covers. I’ve stared at Mickey’s face, I’ve analyzed what his left hand is fingering. I’ve looked to see if his ...

Prior to the advent of electrical amplification, the role of the guitar in jazz was strictly that of a chorded rhythm instrument, chugging along with the bass and drums and helping to propel whatever ...

Several teachers helped make Page the ace guitarist he was in Led Zeppelin. Yet in terms of technical skills, Page said jazz guitar legend John McLaughlin taught him as much as anyone (via Light & ...

Louis Stewart began his musical career in the sixties as a member of the Dublin jazz scene. In 1968 he received an invitation to the Montreux Jazz Festival together with the Jim Doherty Quartet. He ...

“My guitar is not a thing,” Joan Jett once said. “It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.” The guitar is the most universal instrument, the most primal, and the most expressive. Anybody can pick ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Jazz guitarists Ulf Wakenius and Martin Taylor perform at The Ark Tuesday night. Akul ...

CLINE: Oh, yeah, absolutely and, you know, many great jazz guitarists I could name. I have to say that Jim Hall is a huge inspiration and a touchstone for much of this record for me. And Jim and I ...

For years, Pat Metheny couldn't find the right guitar strings. He had a specific need - nylon strings for an unconventional tuning on a baritone guitar. Last fall, he found them on Amazon, and they ...

One of the categories of jazz I love most is modern jazz guitar. And 2020 has been a banner year with more releases in this category than any year in memory by some of the finest guitarists in the ...