Jeff Gunn

Oct 20, 2024 | acousticguitar.com | Ron Forbes-Roberts |Alan Barnosky |Jeff Gunn |Ron Jackson

One of my favorite rhythm guitar approaches is the one that the late jazz master Freddie Green pioneered in his work with the Count Basie Orchestra. Throughout his 50 years on the gig, Green played an acoustic archtop, unamplified. Though his strumming was sometimes more felt than heard, it contributed so much to Basie’s signature sound and swing. Green’s style—quarter-note strums in 4/4 time (aka “four to the floor”)—seems simple enough. But it’s rarely mastered.

Aug 27, 2024 | acousticguitar.com | Andrew DuBrock |Jeff Gunn |Jamie Stillway |Pete Madsen

There are several ways to approach learning bottleneck slide guitar. The natural inclination is to focus on one string, allowing the slide to do what it does best: deliver a vocal-like quality with the freedom of movement that stretches the 12 semi-tone octave range to a wider spectrum of microtonal possibilities.

Jul 2, 2024 | acousticguitar.com | Maurice Tani |Jeff Gunn |Adam Perlmutter |Ron Jackson

The blues is of central importance to American music. Without the earthy style that emerged around the 1860s, you wouldn’t have jazz, rock ’n’ roll, hip-hop, and so many styles and variations. Jazz and the blues go hand in hand; traditional blues guitarists enrich their playing with jazz vocabulary, while jazz guitarists use the feel and simplicity of the blues to add emotion and grit to their playing.