The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding their own way. Fourteen musicians and writers share their favorites.

“And I love the idea of having a record that will be an annual thing. I really hope we hit on something that people want to hear every year.” The way “You Make It Feel Like Christmas” has ...

At a school like Georgetown, it can feel like everyone is an overachiever. Everyone is accomplished at something or the master of a talent. Most times I think it’s a blessing to be surrounded by such ...

Fatboy Slim says he "doesn't feel like" making music anymore. The 63-year-old musician - whose real name is Norman Cook - achieved massive success in the 1990s with a string of big-beat albums and ...

Speaking to Guitar World in 2014, the Animals As Leaders maestro recalls the grueling salmon cannery and poop-scooping dog kennel jobs that helped him save for his first Vai signature model, and discu ...

“I love their simplicity…the stark chords of Link Wray ... “I’m not a schooled guitar player,” she once said, “but I love taking risks.” “Like a great frontman, a really good ...

Tossikian is one of the most creative and talented Greek guitarists. He was born in 1981 in Piraeus to an Armenian father and ...

Fatboy Slim says he "doesn't feel like" making music anymore. The 63-year-old musician - whose real name is Norman Cook - achieved massive success in the 1990s with a string of big-beat albums and ...

All musicians like food ... are informed by the chord progression that you’ve written, and while guitars can voice chords beautifully, the archetypal rock guitar often works on a tradition ...

Constipation is when you have stools that are hard to pass, you don’t feel like you pass all your stool, or there are fewer than three bowel movements per week. Constipation can make you feel ...

Jason Kostal’s Queen Creek basement is filled with tools to make guitars "the old-school way," he said. While a normal wait time for a custom guitar ... just to feel like - here’s this person ...

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