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Jazz Guitar: Six Essential Albums
JAZZIZ LIVE host Brian Zimmerman walks us through SIX essential guitar albums that should be…
Sing a Song of Six Strings: A Jazz Guitar CD Roundup
With a string of groundbreaking releases through the 1970s, beginning with 1976’s Bright Size Life and continuing with 1977’s Watercolors, Pat Metheny almost single-handedly created a new sound and vocabulary for jazz guitar.
Pat Metheny ECM Catalog Headed for High-Res Download and Streaming
Big news for audiophile fans of Pat Metheny: The guitar legend’s complete ECM catalog of…
Dig In: The Essential Jazz Guitar Playlist
Join us on a journey through the evolution of jazz guitar, starting with early pioneers like Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt and continuing through to modern masters like Pat Metheny, John Scofield and Julian Lage.
Remembering Ennio Morricone: Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny, “Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso”
The great Italian maestro Ennio Morricone passed away today, July 6. He was 91. Morricone…
Tales of ‘Sco: Guitarist John Scofield on His Fusion Origins & His New Album, ‘Swallow Tales’
Guitarist John Scofield discusses his new album Swallow Tales on ECM Records, which features compositions…
JAZZIZ Last Call: Guitarist Gideon King on Steely Dan, John Scofield, Metheny & More
Gideon King is a New York-based jazz guitarist and leader of City Blog, a band…
10 Essential Jazz Fusion Albums
While the blending of jazz and rock aesthetics had started years before, the 1970s was…
Pat Metheny – From This Place (Nonesuch)
Pat Metheny’s music has always contained a certain spaciousness, perhaps hinting at his Midwestern origins.…
Year By Year: Essential Albums of 2005
Jazz may not have an official yearbook, but it does have a vast and well-documented…
JAZZIZ Backstage Pass: 10 Albums You Need To Know for February 2020
Singer-songwriter Kat Edmonson’s new album Dreamers Do is one of the 10 Albums You Need…
The Interchange: New Takes on ‘Kind of Blue’
John Coltrane (left), Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis and Bill Evans recorded the original version of Kind…
Kurt Elling, Pat Metheny, Miles Davis & More: The Week in Jazz
The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
10 Albums You Need to Know: February 2020
A jazz legend’s 80th-birthday celebration; an exploration of the concepts around dreaming; a guitar hero’s…
JAZZIZ Weekly Discover: February 10, 2020
Pat Metheny will release a new album, Wide and Far, on Nonesuch Records on February…
Remembering Lyle Mays: His Life in Music
Keyboard pioneer and frequent Pat Metheny collaborator Lyle Mays died on February 10 after complications…
Lyle Mays, Keyboard Innovator and Frequent Metheny Collaborator, Dead at 66
Keyboardist-composer Lyle Mays, a longtime collaborator with Pat Metheny, died on Feb. 10 after a…
Year By Year: Five Essential Albums of 1997
Jazz may not have an official yearbook, but it does have a vast and well-documented…
JAZZIZ Weekly Discover: November 18, 2019
A track from guitarist Pat Metheny’s new album, America Undefined, is featured in our Weekly…
