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 ...

Guitarist Barney Kessel is "a treasure from Oklahoma, one of the greatest artists to come from this state," says Chuck Cissel, chief executive officer of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. Kessel, ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Barney Kessel's birthday today! Legendary musician, guitarist, influential jazz artist, composer, arranger, session player, record producer, one of the leading figures in ...

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 ...

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 ...