When master luthier John Monteleone begins work on a new guitar, he said the materials — thick boards of maple, spruce and exotic hardwood like Hawaiian koa and Brazilian rosewood — speak to him. “I ...

Monteleone created the Sun King after finding inspiration in an unlikely material: the scrap wood in his workshop. "That guitar happened very rapidly, just out of the very excitement of the design," ...

When summer settles in, jazz fans turn their focus toward festivals. No stranger to this scenario, The Jazz Loft, in Stony Brook, NY, draws plenty of ears and cheers with its John Monteleone Art of ...

A tight group of guitar aficionados gathered inside Rudy's Music in SoHo Monday night to celebrate the release of an album 12 years in the making. The album's long gestation period hadn't anything to ...