By Mark Corroto For baby-boomers and their children, the guitar has been the delivery system for most music we hear.
Bars never hold air-clavichord competitions for a very good reason.
Those six-strings were freedom to a Vietnam generation and a common vocabulary for all listeners. Perhaps the guitar more than any instrument allows beginners and startup bands to get up on stage, and in the case of rock music, get a contract with a major label. In jazz it s a different story. Your axe will betrays your abilities just as a young inexperienced Charlie Parker once dodged a flying cymbal. For guitarist Christopher Jentsch, his credentials are solid, as is his music.