Charlie Hunter is a guitarist, producer, and composer celebrated for his innovative approach to the instrument. He gained widespread recognition for his pioneering technique on an eight-string guitar, ...

Genre-curious jazz guitarist and composer Charlie Hunter swings into Orlando for an eye-popping two-night stand of four (count ’em!) gigs at the intimate Judson’s Live. Over a 35-year career, Hunter ...

With all but one of these ten tracks credited as group compositions—the exception is the album (nick)namesake's "At Long Last"—the sixty-one plus minutes of Jubu is a wholly instrumental exercise of ...

In a culture so besieged by the conflict between art and commerce, it’s perhaps natural that the use of pop idioms is disparaged by the critical elite, anxious to protect their canon from dilution.

Charlie Christian is the first guitar player I heard that, to me, was a bridge between the blues and that kind of stuff I was playing and the jazz that I would later play. This article was first ...

The 1990s saw several young guitarists gaining notoriety, despite guitar-based music giving way to saccharine pop mid-way through the decade. These players’ influence will cast a long shadow, whether ...