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2021-02-03 update: after a couple of comments below by John Lyon, author of Sean Levitt—Seven Transcriptions , which includes the most compl...

There is very little footage of Django Reinhardt playing ( this , go to 2:28, is by far the best available), which makes it difficult to ap...

Photo by Nathan West Julian Lage is one of the great guitar players of his generation. A child prodigy, as documented in Jules at Eig...

Sergio Pujol Oscar Alemán: La guitarra embrujada Planeta; Buenos Aires, 2015 Paperback; 312 pp. The life of Oscar Alemán (1909-1...

Today it's the 100th anniversary of Charlie Christian's birthday. For a special 2h30m programme we've done (in Spanish) in El C...

BB King by Naiel Ibarrola BB King has died, and it feels like the end of an era. There are artists who seem to have been "always ...

Being one of the most spoken languages in the world, both in terms of people and geography, Spanish has a bibliography about jazz that woul...

STEVE BROWN & GUILLERMO BAZZOLA Una Pequeña Alegría Brown Cats Productions (BC9508) Guillermo Bazzola, Steve Brown (g). Recorde...

Johnny Winter "I just hope I’m remembered as a good blues musician." —Johnny Winter, just a month ago,  here . With his...

Guitar proficiency today is just ridiculous, especially with this not-so-new wave of eclecticism, of not restricting oneself to one style o...

Francisco Sánchez, a/k/a Paco de Lucía (picture: ABC ) Francisco Sánchez's passing will leave us without new adventures of Paco de ...

Fans of any kind of music just love a good discussion on pioneers, on who was the first to do something, and none more so than electric gui...

There are records that are not so good, but still hold pleasant surprises. Some are even memorable for just one tiny moment of glory. O...

One of the most fascinating aspects in the history of American popular music is the origin of blues music. Having been put at the centre of...

George Barnes I hope you enjoyed yesterday 's video of "Liza" , from George Barnes's Guitars Galore album, released ...

This may sound over the top, but I think we will not have a clear idea of how much American popular music of a certain age was soaked in ja...

I don’t want to impose some agenda on a song. I respect the ability to read the song, to figure out the song’s intentions. Chops need to be ...

On January 23 I marked Django's birthday with an impromptu, off-the-cuff selection of his recordings, and I posted it on Twitter . His ...

(This is a translation of my review for Cuadernos de Jazz ) Charlie Christian: The Genius of the Electric Guitar (4-CD set, Sony/Legac...

Ted Gioia  has just published his latest book, The Jazz Standards - A Guide to the Repertoire  (Oxford University Press). Gioia has a stron...