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Les Paul is a unique blend of musician and inventor. His performing career started at the age of 13 and by the early 1950s he was the greatest jazz guitarist of his generation. As an inventor, Les Paul's breakthrough creation of the solid-body electric guitar paved the way for electric music made the sound of rock and roll possible. In 1953 while performing with Bing Crosby, he perfected the first multi- track recording machine, allowing separate lines of instrumental music and vocals to be blended together. His many recording innovations--including sound-on-sound, overdubbing, reverb effects, and multi-tracking--greatly accelerated the advancement of studio recording

Article: So You Don't Like Jazz

Thirty Essential Transformative Guitarists

by Alan Bryson
September 9, 2026

"Best guitarist" lists are inherently subjective--often nonsensical. They rank the unrankable, folding popularity, technique, cultural impact, sales, and personal taste into a single hierarchy. This list takes a different approach, acknowledging thirty guitarists who transformed the instrument itself: they created new techniques, pioneered fresh concepts, expanded its sonic vocabulary, and changed how those who followed them played. ...

Article: Interview

Tommy Emmanuel: Finding Common Ground On Guitar

by Jim Trageser
April 4, 2026

Tommy Emmanuel began his musical career at age 6, playing guitar in his family's band as they busked around the Australian bush more than six decades ago. An invitation from guitar legend Chet Atkins to visit Nashville led to Emmanuel's relocating to the United States in 1997, where his genre-defying career has only further exploded.

News: Recording

Composer, Guitarist, and Inventor Jack West Releases 'Guitars On Life,' An Acoustic Guitar Duo Album Featuring West and Guitarist Walter Strauss

February 8, 2026

West Also Releases Essential Curvature, a Double-LP Compilation of Recordings Made with His Group Curvature Between 1996 and 2003 Both Albums are Available on Vinyl and Digital Platforms via Otá Records Composer, guitarist, and inventor Jack West will release two albums on Otá Records (the label behind most of Omar Sosa’s recordings). The first, Guitars On ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

The Jazz Sides of Nat King Cole, Part 3: Recordings with Jazz Greats

by Larry Slater
March 28, 2025

Nat King Cole spent the '40s with the King Cole Trio, but he also played with many of the prominent jazz musicians of the era in a variety of settings. including Les Paul, Lester Young and Lionel Hampton. In 1956 he waxed the famous “After Midnight" sessions with Stuff Smith, Sweets Edison, Juan Tizol and the ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Vocalist Teodora Brody

by AAJ Staff
November 6, 2024

Meet Teodora Brody Born in Romania, and now based in Switzerland, Teodora Brody initially trained in classical jazz and rose to prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s singing with legendary jazz pianist Johnny Răducanu . Acclaimed for her extraordinary vocal power and creative vision, Teodora pioneered the fusion of jazz with Doina--Romania's ...

Article: Profile

Hi-Hats Off to The Jazz Corner on Its 25th

by Gloria Krolak
April 8, 2024

Twenty-five years ago, on March 30, 1999, Bob and Lois Masteller opened their club, The Jazz Corner, on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. They had both enjoyed productive careers, he in human resources, she in property management. Now it was time to indulge their passion for jazz. Bob grew up with music in the house--his dad ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Anthony Pirog, Les Paul, Ethan Philion and More

by Jerome Wilson
March 20, 2024

This show has electronics, guitarists, vintage Chicago avant work, and much more. Musicians heard include Anthony Pirog, Les Paul, Philip Cohran, Ethan Philion, and Bobby Hutcherson. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Jeremy Dutton “The ...

Article: Live Review

Joey Alexander Trio at Chris’ Jazz Café

by Victor L. Schermer
March 13, 2024

Joey Alexander Trio Chris' Jazz Café Philadelphia, PA March 8, 2024 All musical genres, and specifically jazz, have produced any number of musicians who blossomed in childhood and already in their teens were performing and competitive with the masters. The greatest historical example of course was Wolfgang Amadeus ...

Article: Live Review

John Pizzarelli Live at Scullers Jazz Club

by Doug Hall
June 9, 2023

John Pizzarelli Scullers Jazz Club Debut of new album Stage & Screen Cambridge, MA June 2, 2023 With an evening dedicated to the American Songbook, acclaimed jazz guitarist and vocalist, John Pizzarelli, performed with his jazz trio at the intimate cocktail-lounge setting of Scullers Jazz Club for a small but ...