Barney Kessel lived multiple musical lives during his remarkable career, which saw the Oklahoma-born, San Diego-based guitar master play on a slew of classic jazz, pop and rock records. The new, ...

Barney Kessel, one of the finest and most lyrical guitarists ever to emerge in jazz, died Thurs., May 6 in his San Diego home, of effects stemming from a cancerous brain tumor, which he was diagnosed ...

SAN DIEGO - Barney Kessel, one of the most influential and innovative jazz guitarists of his time, has died at the age of 80. Kessel died Thursday at his San Diego home of a malignant brain tumor, the ...

The guitarist Barney Kessel, who died of brain cancer May 6 at age 80, was playing a ballad at the Washington club Charlie's in 1982 when a dish dropped and several cubes of ice fell to the floor.

Today for Music Education Monday, you can get a video lesson from the legendary guitarist Barney Kessel. Some younger musicians and fans understandably might not know Kessel, who died of a brain tumor ...