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 ...

Unpredictable as ever, Incus have released an album rich in melody and harmony, neither typical of the Incus catalogue. If an electric guitar can produce some of the most violent of improvised music, ...

Back in 1981, Nick Webb and Simon James, two enterprising British music school students, decided to start an instrumental acoustic jazz band focused on dueling steel- and nylon-string guitars. Mind ...

Guild guitars were first founded in New York City back in 1952, but at that time, the guitar company was focused on Jazz guitars. Through the decades, many big-name artists have played Guild ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

We're not sure what they were teaching the guitar students upstairs at Jammin' Java Wednesday night, but those pupils, guitar cases in hand, had to walk past the stage during Alex de Grassi's ...

Acoustic Rooster is a brand new children’s series from GBH Kids based on the book by Kwame Alexander. Alexander and GBH worked with Canadian jazz musician Mark McClean to create original music to ...