In jazz, Bucky Pizarelli and George Van Eps have played the seven-stringer along with Howard Alden and John Pizarelli. Breau's grace on the sever-string guitar is only enhanced by the inclusion of ...
When cellist Tomeka Reid first shifted from classical to jazz as a college student in the late 90s, she didn’t know of many musicians who’d taken similar paths. In 2013 she founded the Chicago Jazz ...
The key difference between the resonance of stringed instruments and the saxophone, to pick one example, is due to the material of the respective instruments. Wood boxes vibrate as a result of the ...