This week Riverwalk Jazz salutes Benny Goodman's pioneering Sextet featuring the early electric guitarist Charlie Christian. Our guests are both life-long devotees of the Benny Goodman Sextet.

You’ll notice classics like “Smoke on the Water,” “Iron Man,” and “Enter Sandman” missing. And don’t forget the sweet ones: “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” and “Sweet Emotion.” One could ...

There are a number of factors that might make a song immediately recognizable—a whisper, a cough, a G note… But nothing gets our little black hearts racing quite as rapidly as a guitar riff we know ...

If the flannelly, lo-fi nature of ’90s grunge killed the hairspray bravado of ’80s hair metal, then the 2000s definitely brought back some of its technicality and musicianship. The first decade of ...

If you wanted to assemble a time-lapse movie of rock 'n' roll's development, you could begin by illustrating the way riffs have often defined rock's great songs and performances. Elmore James kicked ...

A new poll for the oft-debated topic of Greatest Guitar Riffs has some stupefying results. The U.K. study done in March 2022 by music content and software provider Muse (also owner of Ultimate Guitar) ...

Hartford's bustling summer jazz scene will make a smooth transition into the fall, thanks to the classy Hartford International Jazz Festival, which has just announced its exciting Main Stage lineup ...