SAN DIEGO - Barney Kessel, one of the most influential and innovative jazz guitarists of his time, has died at the age of 80. Kessel died Thursday at his San Diego home of a malignant brain tumor, the ...

SAN DIEGO -- Muskogee native Barney Kessel, a high-profile jazz guitarist who performed with Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum and other music greats, died of brain cancer Thursday in San ...

Apparently, the median age of a jazz listener is in his or her mid to late 40s. So, perhaps, the representative listener was born in the mid-1970s. Sonny Rollins first recorded in 1949. The recordings ...

In a near six-decade career, he was rated the #1 guitarist in Esquire, Downbeat and Playboy magazine polls between 1947 and 1960. Barney Kessel, a pioneer of the electric guitar and a master of ...

On ‘Reunion,’ Bruce Forman, John Clayton, and Jeff Hamilton cover and rearrange the music of Barney Kessel, Ray Brown, and Shelly Manne, who made five ‘Poll Winners’ albums starting in 1957. Detail of ...

He's part of Oklahoma's jazz legacy and he's in need of support. That's why the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame announced Thursday it will hold a benefit concert for guitarist Barney Kessel, a hall of fame ...

Pamela and Bruce Forman have brushed off and polished up their “Cry Me A River” show, featuring a live musical performance with biographical notes on legendary jazz guitarist Barney Kessel and actress ...

Writing for the album liner notes, famous music critic Nat Hentoff explained the magic of improvisational jazz. “One mark of continually creative artists, however long they have been professionals, is ...

Herb Ellis, 88, a jazz guitar virtuoso who swung hard behind such jazz luminaries as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Stan Getz and was a member of the celebrated Oscar Peterson Trio in the 1950s, ...

After far too many years away from Bay Area stages, guitarist Bruce Forman is back, playing with all the poise and improvisational daring-do that made him a San Francisco mainstay from the mid-1970s ...