I purchased a used Carved Palen with a floating pickup and a new Palen Performer (which is also hand carved, but has a set humbucker). So far, I have been enjoying my new amazing guitars for the past 3 weeks at home and at local gigs. I have done the review with Harmony Central: FEATURES: […]
Archives for December 2010
Mike Moss Palen Performer
Review of Palen Performer Overall Rating: 11 I first played a Palen Jazz Performer in May 2006 at the Long Island Guitar show. I told Lou Del Rosso, owner of Guitars n Jazz, that I loved it and would order one immediately. I did. I received the guitar in September 2007. It was well worth […]
Rodney Jones Palen
My name is Rodney Jones. I was the guitarist on the Rosie O’Donnell Show, Showtime at the Apollo, as well as musical director for Lena Horne and James Brown. I am good friends with George Benson. We drove out together to the Classic American Guitar Show in Long Island New York where he purchased your […]
Mike Orea Palen
Mike Orea playing his Palen 7-string guitar, on his AWESOME arrangement of “Yardbird Suite” for solo guitar!
Howard Morgen Eastman 905-7
Lou at Guitars ‘n Jazz picked me out a real winner! This Eastman 905-7 became my favorite the minute I picked it up and played it.” – Howard Morgen visit Howard’s Website
Philip C. Palen
Hi Nelson, WELL – I am blown away by this guitar! I was late to work this morning because I finally got it out of the box for the first time Sunday evening, and didn´t get to bed until 2AM! I wanted to tell you that – forgetting for a quick moment that this is […]
Have strings shipped directly to your door from the new GNJ String Store!
Guitars ‘n Jazz offers a large selection of guitar strings available for online purchasing! We carry strings by many manufactures including La Bella, Newtone and Thomastik.
Exclusive distributor for Palen Archtops!
Guitars ‘n Jazz is proud to be the exclusive dealer for Palen Archtops! PALEN ARCHTOPS are among the finest archtop guitars ever built. The Palen Archtop is an “X” braced traditional instrument, descendent from the D’Aquisto school of instruments- very light and acoustic. It features a hand carved and graduated top and back, slightly thicker […]
Largest selection of Eastman guitars anywhere!
We carry the largest in-stock selection of Eastman Carved Archtop Guitars anywhere, including top performing Guitars ‘n Jazz exclusives such as the Eastman Custom Jazz 16 & 17 Elite.
Instrument setup and repairs now available!
Guitars ‘n Jazz now Services and repairs all instruments that we sell and rent in our own workshop with skilled technicians at very reasonable rates. All repairs, setups, re-frets, stringing fully guaranteed!!! Technicians are available 3 days each week, so much of the work can be done in less than a week, and in some […]
Welcome to the new Guitars ‘n Jazz Website!
Hello everyone, and welcome to the new Guitars ‘n Jazz website. The old site was completely redesigned form the ground up with all new content. Throughout the site you will find a huge assortment of pictures, videos, and even sound clips. The site will keep evolving as more and more content is added.. If you […]
Justin Perdue – Eastman Jazz 16
Lou- Just an note that a year or so later, that Eastman JAZZ 16 is still a joy to play! Finally got a video with some halfway decent audio – thought you might enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK8iwo67JP8 As you’ll see, find myself standing while playing lately – thinking of having added a strap button near the heel […]
Akira M. Eastman
Hello, Lou. My two Eastman’s guitars finally arrived today (December 2nd). As a matter of fact, they arrived in Japan on November 19, but the custom office commanded me to make a procedure to import them. It took about two weeks to receive them…What a shame! They are very light and beautiful,and also sound great […]