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From the Feed: Nathan Salsburg Revisits a Tune from Another Lifetime
I’ve written about Nathan Salsburg here and elsewhere before, and one thing I’ve come to enjoy about our conversations is how a specific question about a piece of music can open onto larger questions about the ideas and impulses behind his...
On the Record: A Pair of Brazilian-Influenced Songs by Mia Doi Todd
Photo by Alexandra Dascalu-Nelson
Some years ago, when my wife and I were in the early years of parenthood, she happened to hear Mia Doi Todd’s “What If We Do?”on the Los Angeles radio station KCRW and connected with it immediately. To her...
A World Around Me: Goran Ivanovic Finds His Own Language
From his family’s guitar shop in Yugoslavia through classical study and war to a new voice on steel-string guitar—plus a transcription of his recent tune “Brazilian Brothers.”
In recent years, some of the people who have taught me the most...
So Long, Gene Bertoncini, 1937–2026
A brief remembrance of a beloved and singular nylon-string jazz guitarist, with a transcription of his radically reharmonized take on “Body and Soul.”
When I was a junior or senior in high school—which, as my kids are kind enough to remind...
Sturm und Twang: Jim Campilongo and His Fender Telecaster
Campilongo on the primacy of melody, becoming a freer improviser, and finding new territory on his mainstay guitar. Plus, a transcription of a new solo piece and its early-jazz inspiration.
There are many fine guitarists who have been clos...
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Editorial Director at Stringletter Media, publisher of Acoustic Guitar, Ukulele, and Strings magazines. 25+ years in music publishing. Professional transcriber, arranger, and engraver.
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