Russell Malone is jazz guitarist born 1963 in Albany, GA. He’s mostly a self-taught guitarist having been influenced by B.B. King as a kid but was heavily impacted musically at 12 yrs. old when he saw George Benson perform on…

Guitarist, Jimmy Rosenberg has become one of my newest “favorite guitarists” which I had learned about from a Facebook post. I am completely flawed with this young virtuoso’s playing. Joseph “Jimmy” Rosenberg is a Dutch guitarist, known for his virtuoso…

I first heard about Django Reinhardt on my 15th birthday when my mom had gotten me a record album featuring a collection of the greatest jazz guitarists. 

Looking at the album, I had recognized some of the names but others…

Wes Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was one of the greatest jazz guitarist in American history. He is widely considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian…

One of my top Jazz influences for almost as long as I’ve been playing guitar is Jazz guitar great, Joe Pass. 

The first time I heard his playing was on a vinyl album that was given to me as a…

Growing up in New York in the 1970’s, I had a lot of exposure to great music that was being played on our NY radio stations, one being a Jazz station that always played a wide selection of jazz stylings…

One of my favorite Jazz guitarists is Pat Martino. Martino is an Italian-American jazz guitarist and composer within the post bop, fusion, mainstream jazz, and hard bop idioms. His style and approach to playing is both melodically complex and hypnotically…

Today I’m featuring the guitar work of Larry Carlton. I’ve had some really great musical heroes in my life that all influenced me and my guitar playing in one way or another. But it was Larry’s powerful sense of melody…

When I first heard John McLaughlin, I was in my early teens learning to play guitar and listening to a number of the well known Rock bands like Led Zeppelin, Cream, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk, etc.…