By the late '50s, rock ’n’ roll was in full swing – and so for Guild, a ‘jazz guitar’ maker, it was time to catch up. Enter ...

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 ...

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 ...

This diverse presentation of guitars includes magnificent archtop and flattop guitars along with the occasional ... Our VIP class ticket includes an intimate concert and a Friday evening kick-off jazz ...

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 ...

Denison had grown up idolizing prog rock shredders – then one day he found himself attempting to convince one of them to buy ...