Maya Delilah was sitting at home when she got the email. For the sixth year in a row, Fender had named a group of artists meant to represent the future of guitar, and Delilah had just found out she ...

2009 International Fingerstyle Guitar Champion Mark Sganga has enthralled audiences from Stockholm to Kuala Lumpur to the Thredbo Jazz Festival in Australia. His dynamic playing has been featured on ...

Blues is an intrinsic part of jazz and undoubtedly led on to that music. The harmony is far more sophisticated and we'll give you pointers where applicable. The bars of 6/4 are there as we've added a ...

An accomplished guitarist-composer and Charlie Byrd devotee, nylon string fingerstyle player Nate Najar has distinguished himself as a talent worthy of recognition with his impressive output over the ...

It seems only natural that Martin Taylor would choose to become a professional jazz guitarist. “My father, Buck Taylor, was a jazz bassist, so I grew up hearing jazz all the time,” Taylor said. “He ...

On Sunday, April 17th at 7:30pm, SB Acoustic Guitar Series will present a live Double Bill performance with French acoustic guitar master Pierre Bensusan, and, renowned American jazz guitarist Sean ...

Harlem born and raised guitarist Adam Rafferty got his first standing ovation on guitar when he was six. He played “Blackbird” by the Beatles. “The first songs I ever played were Beatles songs,” ...

Richard Smith, the 2001 National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion, together with his wife, cellist Julie Adams, will be in concert for one night only at the UCO Jazz Lab at 8 p.m. Thursday. A child prodigy ...