Signature Songs:A Song For You; Magic Mirror; This Masquerade; One More Love Song; Tightrope; Stranger In A Strange Land; Hummingbird; Back To The Island; Out In The Woods; Lady Blue; Delta Lady.

As a corporation, Mel Bay has been well known for decades for providing guitar instructional material. A rather recent change has been the corporate venture as a jazz music label. MB has issued ...

Bucky Pizzarelli, a jazz guitar giant and member of the New Jersey Hall of Fame who played with most of the greats in his decades-long career, has died. He was 94 and had been diagnosed with ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) George Benson’s music has a way of wrapping around you — like a smooth breeze on a late summer evening or the sound of someone you trust speaking truth with melody. Whether he’s ...

The term “standard” seems antithetical to something as freeform and limitless as jazz. But, time has proven that these songs are not rigid at all. The only strict parameter is the lyrics, and yet ...

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 expanded ...

In the post-bop world of jazz, the guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli is a novel concept. He is a jazz musician who remembers when his job description was to play dance music; he prefers to be a sideman and ...

Paul Riedl (vocals/guitar/synth) and Morris Kolontyrsky (guitar/synth) used B.C. Rich Ironbirds through 5150 tube amps for ...