D’Angelico guitars have always been rare beasts. John D’Angelico and his various apprentices completed approximately 30 guitars per year between 1932 and his death in 1964. From company ledgers, it’s ...

The death of jazz guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli on April 1 from Covid-19 was a gut punch to the music world. In his honor, D’Angelico Guitars is auctioning a signed Excel EXL-1 model guitar played by ...

While the violin maker gets most of the acclaim and prestige for turning lumber into musical instruments, you can’t deny the sheer beauty and grandeur of a jazz-style archtop guitar. Much larger than ...

SOUTHBURY -- Red spruce and curly maple from the Northeast, bubinga from Africa and urundel from South America. These are the woods Carl Barney starts with. Out of them come his acclaimed guitars. "I ...

Jazz is littered with examples of starry duos aligning in one-off recording projects that do not quite match expectations. Often the lack of real spark comes down to too much deference being shown.

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Benedetto Guitars make some of the finest jazz guitars in the world and they are all manufactured in Savannah, Georgia.

How do you define what makes the best jazz guitars? That’s a question for the ages. Perhaps any good electric guitar could do the job, as long as it wasn’t fitted with nuclear-powered humbuckers. Why ...