When playing the scalic runs keep your plucking fingers flat in order to forcefully drive each rest stroke. Practice slowly ...

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I remember we saw their name on the preliminary round lineup and assumed they were probably pretty good,” keyboardist Rob ...

Thirty years ago, Dan Bejar picked up an acoustic guitar and started performing as Destroyer. Since then, the project has consistently evolved: into a full band on 1998’s City of Daughters, toward pop ...

Rundgren, who boycotted his Rock Hall induction, cites former Del Mar resident Bacharach as a key early influence on his ...

Its metallic, resonant sound is so inherently cool and mellow that even its lightning-fast virtuosos — mainly in jazz ... guitar and horns. Yet there sits Ayers, putting tranquil chords into ...

Jennifer Lucy Allan attempts the impossible: offering a gateway into the colossal artistic practice of Tori Kudo ...

You can hear that sharper focus take effect in real time on the opening “With a Grain”: For its first 45 seconds, the song floats off in a splendorous cocktail-jazz daydream, before a sound ...

strummed chords on the banjo set the rhythm for dancing, cutting through the other instruments better than an acoustic guitar. Banjo is still heard in some types of jazz, but it mostly has been ...