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Today, music lovers around the world celebrate the natal anniversary of guitarist Django Reinhardt . Django , the Belgian-born Romani jazz m...

Continuing the topics of musicians and July birthdays, today we pay tribute to one of the lesser-known masters of 20th century music and jaz...

The customary Sunday blog post, asking who was born and what movies/animated cartoons were released theatrically on a given day, notes that ...

Continuing the thread from the last post, as the following caricature of Django Reinhardt from The Triplets Of Belleville illustrates, we...

"Lenny Breau was the best guitarist to ever shit between two boots." Jerry Reed "Lenny was a comet passing through" Ch...

Has there ever been a jazz guitar player who surpassed the musical brilliance of Wes Montgomery? Ever (yes, even right now in November 2013...

My guess is, in the immortal words of John Lennon, the following guys, guitar virtuosos all, have "blisters on their fingers", alt...

Yesterday's posting about Peter Frampton regaining his long-lost favorite guitar after 31 years led my music-obsessed subconscious direc...

Before Django, before Oscar Alemán, before Charlie Christian, there was Eddie Lang . Trained as a violinist, the Philadelphia-born Lang ...

Once upon a time in the early and mid-1990's, some amazing music was being played in San Francisco clubs on a regular basis. It was the ...