Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Some of the most innovative guitarists in the world -- and the engineers who record them -- share their scientific, artistic, psychological, and sometimes complex approach to capturing a good acoustic ...

It’s easy to imagine that larger-than-life rock stars are born with an electric guitar in hand, ready to unleash a barrage of thunderous riffs before they’ve even taken their first steps. But you ...

Whatever style of acoustic guitar you most want to play, it’s worth dipping a toe into as many genres as you can. Most genres have a handful of defining signature sounds. By getting those signatures ...

Jazz is littered with examples of starry duos aligning in one-off recording projects that do not quite match expectations. Often the lack of real spark comes down to too much deference being shown.

Three acoustic musicians — one a guitarist, two mandolinists, all three world-renowned in their craft and all good friends — will share their talents with Santa Cruz when they play Kuumbwa Jazz Friday ...

This spring, PBS Kids is introducing preschool children to jazz music concepts and important life skills through the new series of music videos Acoustic Rooster: Jazzy Jams. Based on bestselling ...

Acoustic Rooster is a brand new children’s series from GBH Kids based on the book by Kwame Alexander. Alexander and GBH worked with Canadian jazz musician Mark McClean to create original music to ...

We're not sure what they were teaching the guitar students upstairs at Jammin' Java Wednesday night, but those pupils, guitar cases in hand, had to walk past the stage during Alex de Grassi's ...

Correction: This story has been updated to correctly identify Almost Acoustic, which was incorrectly called Nearly Acoustic in a previous version. Our editor is very tired. Our sincere apologies.