One of the top living swing-based guitarists, Bucky Pizzarelli has been a fixture on the jazz and studio scenes since the 1950s. Born in 1926 in Paterson, New Jersey, he learned the guitar and banjo ...

Bucky Pizzarelli, famed jazz guitarist and former member of the Tonight Show orchestra, died Wednesday after testing positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). He was 94. His son, John Pizzarelli ...

Peekskill NY -- Jazz Legend Bucky Pizzarelli will keep the New Year's weekend celebration alive with his stellar jazz guitar performances at The Division Street Grill in Peekskill January 2nd 2010 at ...

If you enjoy jazz guitar played in a traditional style, today's post might be right up your alley, as we feature not one, not two, but three guitarists - Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola and Vinny ...

This Zoot Sims-Bucky Pizzarelli set of duets is now 33 years old but there's nary a sign of cobwebs here on a session in which the mutual pleasure of these two pros is happily apparent. If it ...

Bucky Pizzarelli was exposed to music from an early age, taught guitar by his uncle (Pete Domenick) after school. Domenick hosted frequent family sing-alongs at his home, in which the young Pizzarelli ...

Sure, this is a small-combo session, but Bucky Pizzarelli is nevertheless in a large-ensemble frame of mind here, one big-band veteran guitarist saluting another. A longtime admirer of Green’s work ...

One of the great jazz guitar records of the ’80s was Swinging Sevens by the father-son team of Bucky and John Pizzarelli. That seven-string encounter, recorded long before John would become the vocal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Martin is the son of Bucky Pizzarelli, a legendary guitarist and NJ native, who’s performed with the likes of Benny Goodman to ...

In the post-bop world of jazz, the guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli is a novel concept. He is a jazz musician who remembers when his job description was to play dance music; he prefers to be a sideman and ...

Like father like son, or in the case of jazz guitarists Bucky and John Pizzarelli, like father and son. John Pizzarelli’s musical influences range from Nat “King” Cole to The Beatles, but his most ...

Hearing seven-string guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli play solo, as he does on Flashes (Arbors), is as rare an occurrence as a guitarist who knows what to do with that extra low string as well as Pizzarelli ...