The guitar may be the iconic instrument of rock'n'roll, but for the first five decades of jazz it generally trailed behind the charismatic stature of saxophones and trumpets, and the erudition of ...

Barney Kessel lived multiple musical lives during his remarkable career, which saw the Oklahoma-born, San Diego-based guitar master play on a slew of classic jazz, pop and rock records. The new, ...

Today for Music Education Monday, you can get a video lesson from the legendary guitarist Barney Kessel. Some younger musicians and fans understandably might not know Kessel, who died of a brain tumor ...

Barney Kessel, a jazz guitarist who played in a number of celebrated bands in the 1940s and enjoyed a long career as a studio musician, has died. Kessel died of brain cancer at his home in San Diego, ...