It wasn’t bebop or jazz but it was good ... where Purcell launched a jazz combo and paid the bills through private jazz guitar instruction. He also taught at Middle Tennessee State University.

Baker, a finger-style acoustic guitarist, is a folk music omnivore. Besides Scottish and Irish fiddle music, he is at home with bebop, blues, free jazz and free improvisation. Let that last sentence ...

John Scofield’s guitar work has influenced jazz since the late 70’s and is going strong today. Possessor of a very distinctive sound and stylistic diversity, Scofield is a masterful jazz improviser ...

In the early 1940s, the modern jazz idiom, known as bebop, exploded old certainties and changed jazz forever. Bebop represented the avant-garde – new experimental ideas and methods – of jazz ...

She has played and taught guitar professionally since 1949, played bebop jazz guitar in dozens of nightclubs around Los Angeles with top groups (also in Bob Neal's jazz group with Jack Sheldon ...

His 1967 recording “Alligator Boogaloo,” with organist Dr. Lonnie Smith and guitarist George ... a Harlem jazz club known as ...

was one of jazz’s greatest drummers, a maestro of bebop with the crisp, rapid snare and cymbal patterns that earned him the nickname of “Snap Crackle”; he played with a panoply of leading ...

the magic component of heart and soul,’ said the guitarist Pat Metheny Roy Haynes, who has died aged 99, was one of jazz’s greatest drummers, a maestro of bebop with the crisp, rapid snare and ...