Harmony Guitars has brought a classic – and in many cases sought after – archtop back from the dead in the shape of the H62 Reissue, and it might just be one of the coolest jazz guitars of the year.

"We considered purple and even red," says Scott Chinery, owner of 1,000-plus guitars, the world's biggest and best such collection. "But blue was the perfect color to jolt people out of the old, staid ...

Few album reviews bother to assess the very instruments that shape the music but for musician Chris Vincent, it’s impossible to separate the songs from the guitars that birthed them. In a world ...