The Goldtop Les Paul and the Les Paul Custom were a significant new direction for a traditional archtop guitar manufacturer ...

For decades, an obsessive duo of guitar guys has been amassing a definitive collection. The art these objects created changed ...

Music Festival on Sunday and Tod Machover's opera 'Schoenberg in Hollywood' raise the question of whether there's ever been an L.A. school of music. Our critic has thoughts.

It was an incredibly rare guitar, even in 1968, and fitting that even two world-class rock stars would be forced to share custody of just one (free love, free guitars, I guess). Reverb/Victor ...

Jazz guitar has always been a dynamic art form, adapting to new styles while staying rooted in tradition. From the early swing and bebop pioneers to today’s fusion innovators, guitarists have ...

Lagrène’s unique approach to jazz guitar is based on a style of jazz made popular by Belgian musical artist Django Reinhardt in the 1930s, a reflection of Lagrène’s French upbringing and musical ...

Just under a century ago, it wasn’t totally clear yet what was jazz and what was blues, or what was becoming R&B and what would soon turn into rock ’n’ roll. And the guitar was near the ...

His band, assembled in 1974, was populated by members of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, including now legendary ... but because they share an equal gift for playing an archtop guitar brilliantly.

More than a decade before Duane Denison carved his name into the annals of noise rock with the Jesus Lizard, he tried to sell ...

“A friend of mine worked at a guitar shop that carried rare archtop jazz guitars, and there was a Guild George Barnes acoustic-electric.” Barnes was a renowned swing jazz guitarist, typically ...

We join two of experts on Gibson’s history to try to shine a light on some of the more interesting ‘what ifs?’ and behind-the ...