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.

The New Acoustic Collective features many of the top up-and-coming jazz, bluegrass, and classical musicians in the Bay Area, combining a variety of strings to bring a modern and unique sound to the ...

Guild guitars were first founded in New York City back in 1952, but at that time, the guitar company was focused on Jazz guitars. Through the decades, many big-name artists have played Guild ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whatever style of acoustic guitar you most want to play, it’s worth dipping a toe into as many genres as you can. Most genres have ...

Named for the 1939 Wizard of Oz theme, Willie Nelson recorded his 26th LP at Gilley’s Recording Studio in Pasadena, Texas. Using only a mandolin, a fiddle, a stand-up bass and guitars, Nelson put his ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Back in 1981, Nick Webb and Simon James, two enterprising British music school students, decided to start an instrumental acoustic jazz band focused on dueling steel- and nylon-string guitars. Mind ...

Whether you’re hooked on all the Instagram Live concerts musicians are doing, or inspired by the careers of recently lost legends like John Prine, Bill Withers, and Adam Schlesinger, you might be ...

Bibb on why he won't call himself an electric guitar player anytime ...