Guitar

Calvin Keys was known for working with big names like Ray Charles and Ahmad Jamal. But it was his drive to carve out his own path that set him apart. He died at 82.

Russell Malone was a versatile musician whose soulful style made him one of the most in-demand guitarists in the world. He died in August at the age of 60.

French guitar virtuoso Sylvain Luc had a great ability to accentuate the beauty in jazz, classical and popular music. He passed away this year at 58.

Instruments owned by the late Jeff Beck are going up for auction, including more than 130 items, including 90 guitars, who died at age 78 in January 2023.

The gifted guitarist combines traditional Dominican music with jazz and rock in his performance.

The versatile guitarist has played with celebrated and unsung jazz heroes from the mid-1950s onward. Burrell and many of his fellow Detroiters are some of the music’s most renowned leaders and sidemen.

A fixture of the Chicago blues scene, guitarist Earl Hooker's life and career ended too early. His recorded performances as a side-man for Muddy Waters and Junior Wells, endure.

Guitarist Jeff Beck died in January at age 78. He was a pioneer of psychedelic rock, jazz, fusion and even trance blues.

Performing on his own, guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli fills a room with joyful music and stories.

Born Aug. 22, 1917, blues singer/guitarist John Lee Hooker took a ‘B’ chord and ran with it, riffing his way through a career that spanned more than 50 years. Hooker not only influenced a generation of rock and blues musicians, he recorded with them.