Hector Manuel Quintana, Artist of the Week
Hector came to our attention via one of our JGT contributors – thanks John Stowell! Enjoy Artist of the Week,
Mark Stefani’s Final Step in the ‘Seven Steps to Changes Heaven’ – Recording and Evaluating Your Work Recording your solos and work in general is an...
Mark Stefani’s Step #6 – Arranging Model Solos to Put It All Together The second solution that I discovered is one that has been working for...
Mark Stefani’s ‘Seven Steps to Changes Heaven’, Step #5 – Application Using “Dry” Improvisation Once you are on the right path with regards to acquired language...
Mark Stefani’s Step #4 of ‘Seven Steps to Changes Heaven’ Focuses on Reviewing Your Language Vocabulary As your blues and jazz language vocabulary grows due to...
Jazz Guitar Today welcomes a viewpoint of ‘What is Jazz?’ from guitarist and music industry veteran, Mark Altekruse. Now that I am retired from the corporate...
Mark Stefani’s Step #3 Recommends Transcribing Daily to Acquire Core Language Given all of the above, it should come as no surprise to you that I...
Mark Stefani Stresses the Importance of the II-V Progression in Step #2 of the ‘Seven Steps to Changes Heaven’ It has been stated on many an occasion...
Jazz Guitar Today continues the series of articles featuring ‘Flattops in Jazz’. Mark Althans of Collings Guitars discusses the beginnings of the Julian Lage Signature model. Collings...
JGT Contributor Chuck Anderson offers his views on talent and how to make the best of it! In Lesson #1, Chuck explores anxiety and frustration, as...
JGT Contributor Mark Stefani presents his ‘Seven Steps to Changes Heaven’. In this first step of the series, Mark embraces Blues as the Foundation of Jazz....
As many players are well aware, Wolf Marshall is not only an eclectic guitarist but one of the leading authors and educators of our time. I...
A young Wolf Marshall gets called to the front of the class at a Pat Martino clinic – GIT, Los Angeles 1977 “I was still very...
Aclaimed Guitar Educator and Director of the UCLA Jazz Guitar Department, Wolf Marshall celebrates the career of his good friend, Pat Martino. Pat Martino is an...
Howard Paul of Benedetto Guitars on the making of a ‘classic’ signature guitar. The collaboration between Pat Martino and Benedetto Guitars began with a phone call...
Jazz Guitar Today pays tribute to Pat Martino Bob Bakert, Editor of Jazz Guitar Today: Pat Martino is a legend whose vision and philosophical outlook transcends...