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 ...

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Jazz guitarist Larry Coryell, known as the “Godfather of Fusion,” has died in New York City. He was 73. His publicist, Kurt Nishimura, said Coryell died Sunday in his hotel room of natural causes.

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Homage records can be tricky business. How to be reverent to the subject without being so imitative as to be completely superfluous? On that level, the sheer irreverence of A Guitar Supreme means that ...

Tone Center, Mike Varney's fusion-only label, is not only helping to keep the genre in good shape—it's pumping it full of steroids. Last year the label released A Guitar Supreme: Giant Steps in Fusion ...

With inspirations from “Mario Kart” to Louis Cole, Super Groove Technology aims to bring heart to jazz fusion. “It (the band’s music) is like CASIOPEA meets Louis Cole meets Vulfpeck,” Blank said. “It ...

Allan Holdsworth, known as a guitarist’s guitarist for his progressive rock and jazz fusion work with bands including Soft Machine, Gong, and U.K., died on Sunday, according to a Facebook post from ...

Few musicians have mastered the art of both the electric and acoustic guitar with the dazzling skill of Al Di Meola. His blindingly fast scalar runs, subtle rhythms and technical mastery have, over ...

In 1939, Charlie Christian auditioned for Benny Goodman, who heard the future and hired the electric jazz guitar pioneer on the spot, forever changing the sound of jazz. Still, as forward thinking as ...

There’s an old joke about an anthropologist who discovers a tribe in the jungle who play drums non-stop, day and night, for weeks on end. Then suddenly, one day, the drumming stops. Panic ensues. When ...