In the striking black and white cover portrait adorning the front cover of Julian Lage’s Speak To Me, his facial expression is one of both challenge and curiosity. And while those
The title of Pat Metheny’s latest album, Dream Box, is taken in part from jazz slang for a hollow-body guitar. But it’s the Missouri natives’ imaginative use of such instruments
Just last week we brought you a trio recording with the bass-drum tandem of Scott Colley and Brian Blade. While those two have long been trio mates to saxophonist Benjamin
Octogenarian George Benson is still performing, having appeared at the Montreal Jazz Festival earlier this month. Once a premier jazz guitarist, (he played with Miles Davis after all) mostly through
Jared James Nichols enters more rocking territory with his self titled new album
Guitar icon Steve Vai returned to Boston’s Wilbur Theater on November 3 with his Inviolate Tour, supporting his most recent album by the same name. The virtuoso guitarist, composer, and
Guitarist Bill Frisell, on his third recording for Blue Note, expands the quiet, explorative music he delivered on 2020’s Valentine through a much different instrumental configuration
Not only does Olli Hirvonen fuse jazz with Americana, but he adds slide guitar, and fashions an airier, lighter overall sonic due to both his own playing and that of bassist Kenney, who plays a Fender Bass VI.
Spending the majority of 2022 celebrating the 25th anniversary of his hugely successful second album, Trouble Is…, Kenny Wayne Shepherd will continue his celebratory tour in 2023
Guitar virtuoso Julian Lage expands his horizons on View With A Room, a collection of 10 compelling original compositions out September 16 that marks his second release for Blue Note Records. Having established
