Freeman was a staple of Chicago's jazz music scene – and played with contemporaries including Gene Ammons and Groove Holmes ...

and his big Gretsch guitar, which he utilizes to weave a stream of classic jazz, quiet lounge melodies, and rustic Americana. Known for his work with pedal steel player Jon Rauhouse (who plays for ...

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States (where he also died of a heart attack in 1968), Montgomery came from a musical family, in which his brothers, Monk (string bass and electric bass) and ...

During that time Charlie Byrd made some of his best recorded work: “Jazz Recital,” ‘(57) “Blues For Night People,” (’57) “Jazz at The Showboat,” (’58) “Guitar in the Wind,” (’59) “The Artistry of ...

Last time Gossip Wolf checked in with Strawberry Jacuzzi guitarist Shannon Candy, she was about to drop her solo debut in November 2020. The irreverent bubblegum dance-punk on that album ...

That may sound simplistic, self-evident, or a plain statement of fact. But the 60-something jazz guitarist has his own, singular, way of expressing his native cultural baggage through his music.

Credit: Paul Natkin/WireImage/Getty Images Jazz guitarist George Freeman, a mainstay of Chicago’s music scene, died on April 1 at 97 – mere days before he was due to play a show in celebration ...