Greatest Hits Live is something of a misnomer as applied to Steve Winwood's expansive in- concert collection. Not that the title doesn't contain his most well-known numbers, because it does, ranging ...

Bucky Pizzarelli, a jazz guitar giant and member of the New Jersey Hall of Fame who played with most of the greats in his decades-long career, has died. He was 94 and had been diagnosed with ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) George Benson’s music has a way of wrapping around you — like a smooth breeze on a late summer evening or the sound of someone you trust speaking truth with melody. Whether he’s ...

Guitarist and songwriter Vlatko Stefanovski has led a life of constant artistic evolution. Not standing still has served him well and given us a corpus of works in which no two are the same. The ...

Back in the early 1980s, Alex Skolnick was pretty much like any other teenager. He loved electric guitar players like Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads and George Lynch. “I was caught up in the whole ...

Déjà vu – Bob Bretz, guitar, and Rich Kingera, piano – will play easy-listening jazz in a recital at noon Oct. 21, at First ...

*Years after his first extended run of radio hits and success on the contemporary jazz charts, SoCal-based composer/guitarist Dr. Dave mounted a massive comeback in 2018, forming The Housecall Band ...

Dave Corbus teaches the jazz guitar majors at the University of Colorado Boulder. This includes BM, MM and DMA students. At all levels, Corbus works with his students to develop and maintain a solid ...

For Lady Antebellum guitarist Jason “Slim” Gambill, working on an almost entirely instrumental album drenched in jazz influences was actually a return to his roots, not a nudge from his comfort zone.

The Grammy Award-winning singer and musician had rigorous classical training. Now she's making music that crosses genres: ...