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, ...

Legendary musician, guitarist, influential jazz artist, composer, arranger, session player, record producer, one of the leading figures in West Coast jazz, later delving into hard bop, Barney Kessel ...

This isn’t a guitar I would normally choose for an article, but I think it demonstrates just how extreme Gibson’s custom division was prepared to get in order to make a customer happy back in the day.