Geography is Destiny

Ulf Wakenius, Swedish jazz guitarist, doesn't get the credit he deserves in the U.S. Check out this amazing solo video performance. Ulf's web site is here.

Update, June 2008: It appears that Ulf's website is now on MySpace.

Frank Gambale Riff

D'addario strings has a lot of guitar information on their site - interviews, performance videos, and so on. Click here to see Frank Gambale showing off some pretty cool riffs.

The Wes Montgomery Doctoral Dissertation

What could be more interesting to a Wes Montgomery fan than a doctoral dissertation entitled Wes Montgomery's Improvisational Style (1959-1963): The Riverside Years?

This dissertation, along with several other academic studies of Wes Montgomery's music, is available at Reno De Stefano's web site, here.

[Update: De Stefano is selling this dissertation, so only teaser chapters available now]

Introduction

The amount of material relating to jazz guitar that is on the web is enormous and seems to be growing exponentially. This blog will collect and feature some of it. And, since the guitar is not the only instrument that is worthy, from time to time I'll wander into other instruments, most notably the piano and saxaphone, and other styles, including blues and rock.