Jazz & Guitar Articles
Girl from Ipanema
Jan 08, 2022
The Girl from Ipanema is a Brazilian bossa nova and jazz song. This is performed and recorded be me.
Read MoreThat New Guitar Smell
Dec 24, 2021
There is something about the smell of a new guitar. It’s like a new car only better. And when you get that new guitar, you need to show it off with a fresh recording of a song you always wanted to play. This is one of those times...
Read MorePent Up House
Jan 31, 2016
Quite some time ago I recorded this in a studio. I am bringing it back to life on here with simple some graphics. I hope you enjoy it!
Read MoreJazz Guitar Book Recommendations
Jan 31, 2016
I've wasted a lot of money over the years buying books that did nothing for my playing. I started this article to bring you the books that have actually changed my playing for the better. I would highly recommend each and every one of them.
Read MoreBlack & Blue - An Original
Jan 23, 2016
Some time ago I recorded a little number and posted it on You Tube just to see if I could. So I figured I also make it available here as well.
Read MoreThe Art of Playing Jazz Guitar - A True Preparation Primer Part 2
Jan 23, 2016
In part 1; we discussed various metronome techniques to advance our awareness, concentration, feeling, and broaden our minds while practicing. This article will go into what we should be practicing and, more importantly, thinking when using those techniques.
Read MoreThe Art of Playing Jazz Guitar - A True Preparation Primer Part 1
Jan 23, 2016
I’m not going to kid you; playing Jazz Guitar is extremely difficult at best and almost downright impossible at worst.
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Jazz Byte...
Man, all music is folk music. You ain’t never heard no horse sing a song, have you?
CYNDI LAUPER WAS 'THROWN OUT OF JAZZ SCHOOL' FOR PLAYING ROCK MUSIC. NOW SHE'S A 2-TIME ROCK HALL NOMINEE (EXCLUSIVE)
Mar 22, 2025, 2:00 PM
Lauper is among the artists nominated for potential induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's class of 2025
THEO CROKER FINDS A PATH TO JAZZ GREATNESS ON ‘DREAM MANIFEST’ BY UNLEARNING THE RULES OF THE GENRE
Mar 19, 2025, 5:32 PM
Eclecticism and adventurous spirit propels Croker’s excellent upcoming release 'Dream Manifest,' due June 13. For his eighth album, Croker let the full scope of his imagination wander.
MUSICIAN DANNY BARKER WAS BORN IN A QUARTER TENEMENT, ABOUT THE SAME TIME TRAD JAZZ WAS EMERGING
Mar 19, 2025, 2:15 PM
Born in 1909, around the same time that trad jazz was emerging in New Orleans, Barker lived with his parents, Moses Barker and Rose Barbarin Barker, along with his paternal grandparents, in the building on the back patio opposite the street frontage. The fire maps of the day listed the entire compound as a tenement.
THE JAZZ SANCTUARY ANNOUNCES UPCOMING FREE CONCERTS FOLLOWING FUNDRAISING SUCCESS
Mar 12, 2025, 5:00 AM
The Jazz Sanctuary, Philadelphia’s unique performing arts non-profit, is gearing up for three free live jazz performances this March after the success of a two-month matching fundraising campaign
JAZZ NEWS
Mar 19, 2025, 12:00 AM
“I dreamed about being born in medieval times,” says composer Yelena Eckemoff. Yelena’s newest album is not a rendering of early-music tropes in modern jazz feels. Rather, in her writing on this album Yelena synthesizes classical music constructs and ...
KEN AUNE NAMED JAZZ EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR
Mar 22, 2025, 1:00 PM
Ken Aune of Jamestown was named the 2025 Jazz Educator of the Year by the North Dakota Band Directors Association.
RED CAT JAZZ CAFÉ: A QUARTER CENTURY OF KEEPING THE GROOVE ALIVE IN HOUSTON
Mar 07, 2025, 7:56 PM
Red Cat is roaring back to life, this time, in a venue Sam had been eyeing for years—Bayou Place—in the heart of Downtown Houston.