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I miss it.
Wish I had them all, but three house moves put paid to that.
I guess it didn’t prove financially viable, but I would really love to see it appearing again. What are the chances?
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02-16-2026 04:35 PM
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There was a previous thread on this topic -- Just Jazz Guitar Magazine
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Thanks. Not a lot there. Jazz Guitar Today is less engaging for me. Ah well.
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There were a lot of good articles in the old Guitar Player magazines too, but alas, it's defunct now too.
Guitar Player Magazine Halts Publication After 58 Years
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Yeah, I remember waiting at the mailbox just to get a new issue! Such a great magazine! [I wrote a few interviews in there; Ed was a great guy to work with!]
Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop
[I have stacks of them still - each issue contained lessons for a year's worth of work!]
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I didn’t know that, Marc. Good for you. It must have been great to be involved.
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Well, you can buy the complete set on eBay at a price I can’t pay: This link is to the UK eBay, but the sale is in the US:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326978275...3ABFBM0pLOiY1n
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Yes, Jazz Guitar Today looks good but it's missing a few features. For instance, it doesn't seem to have any transcriptions (I had a number of mine published in Just Jazz Guitar).
My fave was Guitar Extra from the early '90s. There were only around ten issues published and I bought them all. Transcriptions of jazz, blues, bluegrass, soul, folk and classical guitar often with an accompanying overview of the artist and selected tune or solo with lots of interviews, articles, album reviews etc.
Last edited by PMB; 02-16-2026 at 07:19 PM.
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Never saw that magazine, but it looks good. I would definitely have bought it.
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JJG was a real treasure.To me the best Guitar mag ever made for it's in depth articles and interviews.Those magazines were heavy,can't imagine shipping 87 of them.Hope the seller is a good packer.
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Magazines are a thing of the past for the most part. I miss Just jazz Guitar (as I posted in the last thread, Ed Benson wanted that magazine to simply end) and I miss Backpacker magazine (lots of great hikes to read about). I still get Easyriders magazine and enjoy the custom motorcycles. That magazine folded, but was resurrected a few years ago. I don't expect that one to last much longer.
Today's world is a digital world.
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Still something to be said about the old glossy magazines vs digital everything. I used to get every issue of The Horse Backstreet Choppers when my local 7/11 carried it. I loved that magazine. Great looking classic old school chops plus the ladies on the bikes were generally pretty easy on the eyes. They folded up shop some years ago now. Other than accessing information, getting hard to find items like fur hats, and bringing down prices on stuff from insane local brick and mortar shops I can mostly live without it. Youtube is probably my favorite part of the whole works. Learned a lot of stuff there. Originally Posted by Stringswinger
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I'll always remember the time I did my usual daily walk to the mailbox to get my mail, and there's the current JJG issue. So of course I eyeball the contents to see an interview with - Ralph Towner - ! Couldn't believe it !
I also liked Guitar Aficionado for the glossies, of course.
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I was a magazine writer for more than 25 years--including 17 doing reviews, features, and profiles for Acoustic Guitar--so I got to watch the forces chewing away at the business. Some of it was ordinary cost-of-operation inflation (printing, distribution, postage), but the biggest was the destruction of the income stream caused by the internet--the same forces that have been destroying newspapers. Nor did it help that "free" websites were being supplied by amateur "content providers" or (in the case of the limited-circulation business-segment books) PR and marketing flacks. I'm still writing book reviews for a print magazine, but it has to compete with amateur-hour stuff from anybody with a platform. (And both surviving print magazines I worked for now depend on GoFundMe-like programs--sort of the post-CPB public radio model.)
You guys think musicians are underpaid--writers wish they had your income.
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I think Downbeat is still around? Haven't seen it in years but I used to enjoy their transcriptions, Blind Fold Test column, et. al.
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It is but Downbeat has a digital version that most likely attracts more advertising than the hard copies:
DownBeat February 2026
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@Rob I have a few duplicate JJG editions - copies I bought individually on ebay before getting hold of a not-quite-complete collection. About 10-12 I think. I can detail which ones I have incase you are interested in reacquainting yourself.
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Thanks, Doug,
PM on its way..
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Yes Downbeat... Originally Posted by Mick-7
I was very young-way before playing guitar..I don't remember what attracted me to the publication. Perhaps it had an article on a pop star at that time.
What intrigued me for unknown reasons was the small ad for David Baker instructions in jazz--(I think it was the ii7-V7 stuff). I had no idea what it was about but I seem to remember thinking of it as being something like a foreign language or a scientific/math formula ..but I felt the pull of wanting to know more.
And that strange energy of wanting to know more still grows and moves me in many new directions today.
Blame Downbeat?..Perhaps.
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It’s always nice to see publications focused on specific interests like that. Jazz guitar doesn’t always get the spotlight it deserves. Having dedicated content helps keep the community active. It reminds me of how something like Waco Tribune Herald pissedconsumer.com/company/waco-tribune-herald/customer-service.html keeps its audience informed in its own niche. Have you been following it for a while? I might have to check it out myself. Always open to new material.
Last edited by benhatchins; 03-18-2026 at 03:42 PM.
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Not when I'm on the can it isn't. Originally Posted by Stringswinger
Simply can't imagine reading an iPad or phone whilst doing my business. My stack of guitar and photography magazines, some going back to the 90's, occupies a permanent position next to the throne.
Who's with me here?
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