Good enough to bum out Les Paul. For the past three years, the Long Island native has backed Paul, the electric guitar's inventor and ultimate senior Looking for a free mini puzzle? Play the USA TODAY ...

Time's Top 10 list of electric guitar greats blew it last year. The magazine forgot to include Frank Vignola. We had the extreme good fortune to snag a seat on stage at the Minstrel in Morris Township ...

"Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today," says Mountain Stage host Kathy Mattea, introducing a stunning guitarist she'd met some years prior at a ...

As a long seasoned professional musician and, at this point, a somewhat jaded listener, I was unprepared for my first experience of hearing this duo perform as part of the Frank Vignola Quintet. From ...

The Frank & Joe Show's second release finds the group expanded to a sextet—lead guitarist Frank Vignola and percussionist Joe Ascione add rhythm guitarist Ken Smith, bassist Gary Mazzaroppi, and ...

As a young guitar-slinger eager to make an impression on the New York City scene in the mid-1980s, Frank Vignola toured and recorded with high-profile acts such as Madonna, Ringo Starr and Donald ...

Guitarists Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo will perform at the New Jersey Jazz Society’s (NJJS) Jersey Jazz LIVE! Concert at ...

"I like a Gershwin tune," Frank Sinatra sings on the Burton Reed/Ralph Freed classic, "How About You." Guitarist Frank Vignola apparently loves a Gershwin tune, passionately. Vignola—with twelve CDs ...

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA has announced the return of legendary jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Ken Peplowski to ...

KALAMAZOO, MI-- Frank Vignola was six when he heard guitarist Les Paul play a Django Reinhardt tune on a record. "And I thought, wow, that's what I'm going to do for a living," Vignola said from his ...

Frank Vignola grew up in a musical family on Long Island — his dad and brother both play instruments — and Frank gravitated to things with strings. He first took up guitar, getting lessons from a ...

WARWICK - At the Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival in August 2019, Frank Vignola teamed with fellow guitarist Vinny Raniolo and bassist Gary Mazzaroppi for a dazzling performance that included American ...