Every time Jazz Guitarist Dave Stryker comes out with a new CD it’s like visiting with an old friend that you haven’t seen in a while. The sound and feel are comforting and familiar but […]
Nelson Riveros latest CD – The Latin Side of Wes Montgomery – not only pays tribute to the late, great Jazz Guitarist but also to the music of Riveros’ cultural roots in a celebration that […]
Just when you think you know someone she does a 180 and your world is forever changed! Okay, that might be a touch dramatic but Mimi Fox, the superb electric Jazz Guitarist from San Francisco […]
“When I came into Jazz, I wanted more than what rock and blues had to offer and the first stuff that spoke to me was, you know, the earliest Be-Bop 101 with Charlie Parker and […]
“I was so young when I met him and I just thought everyone had a Pat Martino in their life that acted as a Jazz Guitar mentor. It wasn’t until I lost my own father […]
“It changed my life. I knew I didn’t have any concept of how Bird put those phrases together or even where any of those notes were on my instrument. From the first lesson with Roni […]
“I come out of Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Benson of course, Jim Hall, Jimmy Raney, Barney Kessel and Tal Farlow. These are my idols and these are the guys that I emulated. The purity and […]
“…when you do something from your heart, when you come forward, people respond to it. Because all of my technique and everything I’ve developed over the years and all my years studying Jazz and Harmony, […]
The guitar duo in Jazz has been a tried and true format since the early days of Dick McDonough & Carl Kress. Over the years there have been some very exciting pairings such as George Barnes/Carl […]
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