"Jazz music forces us guitarists to learn our fretboards. There is no getting around it. In all of its harmonic comple…"

"Prior to the advent of electrical amplification, the role of the guitar in jazz was strictly that of a chorded rhythm…"

"Who says you need to plug in to rock? In the right hands, an acoustic guitar can be every bit as funky, soulful and r…"

"The instrumental finger technique common to classical guitar—individual strings plucked with the fingernails or, less…"

"The instrument's classical music repertoire"

"In the classical guitar world, Andrés Segovia changed the game. Not only did he state the case that the guitar can do…"

"Variously called rebop, bebop, or simply bop, the new approach was forged by restlessly innovative musicians who had …"

"For guitar players who are studying jazz, taking the next step in jazz improvisation can mean incorporating the disti…"

"Jazz in the late 1940s moved away from big band jazz and morphed into a new expressive form that reflected social dev…"

"If Chicago jazz epitomised the devil-may-care mood of the 1920s, it also looked forward to the ’30s: Chicago stars su…"