“I think a lot of people are afraid to play jazz on anything other than an L-5,” says Cecil Alexander, the man who recently broke the internet shredding bebop on a Jackson Soloist.
Jazz only gripped the Michigan-born guitarist after he fell in love with Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix. As such, he hasn’t allowed himself to be regimented by tradition. “When I was doing my master’s, my main guitar was a Thinline Tele,” he explains. “My tutor told me, ‘Wes Montgomery would never play something like that; you need to get a real jazz guitar.’
