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Nov 06, 2009
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BILL FRISELL PERFORMING "Poem For Eva."
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Oct 23, 2009
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PAKISTANI-AMERICAN JAZZ GUITARIST Rez Abbasi demonstrates the concept of rhythmic offsets employed on his composition "Dream State."
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Oct 22, 2009
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DAVID TORN discusses his live guitar and looping rig, with live performance examples.
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Oct 01, 2009
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MIKE STERN MOSTLY PLAYED ROCK, BLUES, AND funk before studying jazz guitar with
Pat Metheny at Berklee when he was 23. Metheny helped him land a gig with Blood,
Sweat and Tears, and from there Stern went on to work with an
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Sep 01, 2009
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BILL FRISELL IS SO PROLIFIC THAT WHENEVER YOU SPEAK WITH HIM IT’S DIFFICULT TO
do more than take a snapshot of his kaleidoscopic career. This year alone he has
released a stunning solo live-performance DVD called Bill Frisell:
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Sep 01, 2009
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PHILADELPHIA-BASED GUITARIST AND
composer Tim Motzer finds infinite joy
in diversity. His output as a leader and
sideman crisscrosses multiple musical
universes, including jazz, fusion, prog,
hip-hop, soul, electronica, and
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Sep 01, 2009
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CELEBRATED JAZZ VIBRAPHONIST GARY Burton has always had great
guitarists in his bands, beginning in 1967 with Larry Coryell. Burton
first crossed paths with Pat Metheny at the Wichita Jazz Festival in
1973, when the
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Sep 01, 2009
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BORN IN MCKINNEY, TEXAS, IN 1921, Herb Ellis’ first influence was the late Charlie Christian—the pioneer of electric jazz guitar. After graduating from Texas State College in 1941, Ellis joined the Glen Gray Orchestra. Herb’s
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Aug 01, 2009
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SCORES OF CDS BY JAZZ GUITARISTS ARE
released every month, most of them remarkably
similar both musically and sonically. But
Julian Lage’s Sounding Point [EmArcy] is different,
as becomes evident upon hearing the first
few
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Jul 21, 2009
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Excerpted from: Mike Stern - Live New Morning, The Paris Concert 2004.
Stern is featured in the October 2009 issue of Guitar Player.
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Jul 01, 2009
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“TWO THOUSAND NINE IS A VERY
significant year for me for several reasons,”
enthuses John McLaughlin. “It was
in January 1969 that I found myself in
the CBS studio in New York City with
my perennial hero Miles Davis, just
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Jun 12, 2009
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So many topics were covered in GP’s September 2009 feature
interview with Bill Frisell that we couldn’t fit everything into the
magazine. Here, Frisell discusses his upcoming Films of Buster Keaton, Music By Bill Frisell DVD.A
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Jun 01, 2009
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FOR A SMALL GUY IN HIS EARLY 20S, JAKE HERTZOG
certainly lives large. Since earning a scholarship from
Berklee and taking that institution by storm, he has
been awarded the Grand Prize in the Montreux Jazz
Festival’s 2006
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May 01, 2009
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BRUCE EISENBEIL IS A BIG APPLE-BASED
guitarist who began playing when he was four,
and had already delved deeply into the music
of John Coltrane by his early teens. After studying
with master guitarists such as Harry Leahy,
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Apr 01, 2009
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“Breaking down the wall between the artist and the fan has been the
foundation of ArtistShare’s business model, and we have found that
artists do some of their best work when that wall is broken down,” says
the company’s Brian
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