KALAMAZOO — Charlie Hunter chases down sounds. “You just get a sound in your head and an idea of the way that it should be, and you just keep going until you reach that,” Hunter said during a phone ...

Stephane Wrembel, one of the foremost experts on Django Reinhardt’s jazz manouche guitar style, is playing San Antonio club Jazz, TX on Thursday evening.

The term “standard” seems antithetical to something as freeform and limitless as jazz. But, time has proven that these songs are not rigid at all. The only strict parameter is the lyrics, and yet ...

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 ...

German jazz guitarist Martin Schulte's previous album Walking Distance (Laika-Records, 2016) was a quartet (sometimes quintet) recording of Schulte's compositions. Here the instrumentation is stripped ...

Holly Hofmann, who has performed at the Rancho Bernardo Library many times, is returning on Tuesday evening as part of a jazz trio playing selections from the Great American Songbook. “I’m looking ...

Greg favors the use of his thumb to produce the rich sound he achieves... The music swings compulsively at all times with the leader’s exotic sound and constantly inventive lines, the mainstream ...

Recording sessions are not always drama-free. "I've seen police cars and ambulances," jokes jazz clarinetist Tim Laughlin. George LongTim Laughlin, left, wanted to draw attention to veteran cornetist ...