Summer playlists usually teem with high-energy party music, but nights spent camping under the stars at Joshua Tree or amid the Big Sur redwoods call for sounds more contemplative, organic, earthen.

Say the words ‘instrumental guitar’, and music fans of a certain age might think of Hank Marvin; your longtime guitar fan will probably throw out the names of OG shredders like Joe Satriani and Yngwie ...

As a composer of instrumental guitar-based music, I’m continually challenged with trying to write single-note melodic themes that tell a musical story and develop it in a conversational way while ...