An interview with Cline about 'Consentrilk Quartet' and much more. Plus: the best new jazz releases of the month.

When playing the scalic runs keep your plucking fingers flat in order to forcefully drive each rest stroke. Practice slowly ...

Spread the loveJazz, with its rich history and diverse styles, has produced countless masterpieces over the decades. This ...

I love Strats, I’m such a Strat girl, and Fender actually recently did the 70th-anniversary Strat. And so this is one of the ...

The group’s debut arrives seven years after they teamed up for a John Zorn show. Their inaugural tour launches March 30 ...

Sheryl Bailey, the nationally revered jazz guitarist, plays a series of shimmering ascending and descending chords to open ...

By the early 1970s, Joe Pass had already built a strong reputation as a jazz guitarist, but his career was nearly derailed by ...

Delfeayo Marsalis’s Uptown Jazz Orchestra and the majestic downhome Gillian Welch and David Rawlings spark up the weekend.

The rhythmic beat of the drums and the low, swinging bass lines of the guitar permeated the air as attendees came to listen ...

“I guess because Walter and I were jazz fans we were bored by most rock guitar solos,” he explained. Elaborating further on his distaste for rock music and all of its sister genres, he said: “We were ...

It was about making sure that the song had depth, and every time his guitar sang, you weren’t simply hearing ... no one was using the kind of inversions and jazz chords that are found in this song, ...