My Afternoon Lesson With Tosin Abasi of Animals As Leaders

Getting older is a funny thing. “You just wait and see” must be on an endless subconscious loop in the minds of my parent’s generation. The younger you are, the more you think you know, and the more the older generation can’t wait for you to grow up a little bit and see the expression [...]

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Spread the Guitar Love

I want to try and get some good audience participation going with today’s thread. As I’ve written about before, the hater community is very much alive and well among guitarists. So what I would like to do today is flip the script a little bit and get some publicity for those players that we love [...]

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Terrence Brewer: Groovin’ Wes

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Mike Ian: Puzzle Pieces

Back in college, my friends and I came up with a nickname for musicians who were so good that we felt compelled to cut off one of their fingers to make it fair for the rest of us. We called these folks “nine-fingers.” When I met NJ-based musician Mike Ian, it took all of about [...]

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Artist Spotlight: Scott McGill on Playing Fretless Guitar

The guitar offers many technical challenges for the serious player/student. The more you dig into it and try to master it, the more elusive it can be before finally succumbing to your charms and giving you control. For those of us who are gluttons for punishment and simply cannot sit idly by and enjoy the [...]

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Artist Spotlight: Doug Wamble, A Conversation on Songwriting

Doug Wamble is well-known in the jazz guitar community. Having cut his teeth playing with Madeline Peyroux, Cassandra Wilson, Wynton Marsalis, and being signed to Branford Marsalis’ record label, Wamble has established himself as a true spokesperson not only for jazz guitar, but guitar in general. His compositions span a wide range of styles and [...]

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Artist Spotlight: Steve Herberman

In today's age where the world is much smaller thanks to the Internet and the ease of creating commercially-available music is widespread thanks to home recording and MP3 distribution, it seems much harder for jazz guitarists to stand out and make a name for themselves. There are just so many out there, how can you keep track?

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