The Estate of Jeff Healey has announced a new documentary celebrating the life of the late Canadian blues guitar legend. See The Light: The Jeff Healey Story will comprise newly shot interviews, ...

Despite its stature as one of the best concert documentaries and maybe the first, “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” was going to be lost to history. The 1959 film, directed by famed photographer Bert Stern and ...

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 ...

A documentary telling Detroit’s jazz legacy premieres at the 2024 Freep Film Festival. A local documentary premiering at the 2024 Freep Film Festival, “The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit,” ...

Melvin Sparks was one of the finest and most important guitarists during the jazz-funk movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. For the Prestige label, Sparks recorded with Lou Donaldson, Sonny ...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe began recording on the electric guitar in 1941, for her first Decca sides with Lucky Millinder's band. She was one of the first true fusion artists, combining multiple styles of ...

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. Credit..