NAMM 2023: D’Angelico has unveiled the Excel SS Soho, an electric guitar that was developed alongside Grammy winning jazz guitar legend Mark Whitfield, that takes the storied NYC guitar brand’s 15-inch single cutaway form and makes it fully hollow for the first time.
This is 21st century guitar design, but it is steeped in old world guitar making; this is one classic jazz box. And to celebrate its release, Whitfield himself has put the Excel SS Soho through its paces at the Django, underneath the Roxy Hotel in Lower Manhattan, where he performed Wes Montgomery’s Four On Six.
