Guitars and fiddle sounds as fun as these inevitably are happy reminders of the great Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli duets, most especially on the Hot Club classic "Minor Swing . For The ...

You can't do what he did." Pizzarelli is also known as one of the first jazz guitarists to master the seven-string guitar, a technique he learned from jazz guitarist George Van Eps.

The Benedetto Players return to Napa on Aug. 21 after their successful show last year. The group is made up of guitar masters Bucky Pizzarelli, Howard Alden and Howard Paul with bassist Ben Tucker ...

Pizzarelli is known as one of jazz's great chord soloists, as well as an extraordinary rhythm player. Now 83, Pizzarelli was recently honored by the New York Public Library as one of its speakers ...

John Pizzarelli performs “Big Band Swings in Tribute to Bucky” on Friday at the Mayo Performing Arts Center, 100 South Street, Morristown, at 8 pm. Tickets are $39-$79.

Veteran guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli's latest is a master class in the art of the popular American song as interpreted by someone who's spent a lifetime perfecting the language of swing. Combining solo ...

Pizzarelli’s first instrument was banjo, when he was 7. He started trumpet a couple of years later, moved on to guitar at 10 — no surprise, since his dad was the legendary guitarist Bucky ...

On One Morning in May Pizzarelli plays in a heartfelt, swing style. The line-up of composers includes Bix Beiderbecke, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Hoagy ...