Jim Campilongo would have made the move from San Francisco to New York City sooner or later. His career as a musician demanded it. But the events of Sept. 11, 2001, sealed the deal.

Guitarist Jim Campilongo is in dream mode. The alt-rocker, who melds the blues with jazz and Americana, will be releasing his 10th studio album, Dream Dictionary, in January.

Jim Campilongo, a guitarist from San Francisco now based in New York, offers a distinctive, postmodern take on Telecaster music. He's mastered many of the idiomatic techniques and tones that ...

“Norah, Lee and Richard wrote that when they were driving back from Texas,” Campilongo says. “They got punchy.” The group formed after the friends discovered they shared a hankering for ...

Telecaster maestro Jim Campilongo talks to CBS SF about his latest trio album and his life as a working musician in New York City ahead of a return to the Bay Area to play Yoshi's in Oakland with ...

Guitar great Jim Campilongo who moved back to his Bay Area home last year after two decades in New York City brings his 4-Tet to Freight & Salvage Thursday evening.

Vito and Elizabeth Campilongo (center) left their North Oakland home in the 1960s to make room for a BART line. (Courtesy of the Campilongo family) And so BART begins Like much of the country in the ...

Guitarist Jim Campilongo is one of the city's strongest regulars—he plays a variety of different styles well. Here he pairs up with transplanted Kansas City gui ...

Prepare to be charmed. What's more, support comes from local guitar mainstay Jim Campilongo playing as part of an acoustic duo with Norah Jones collaborator Adam Levy.

A Palo Alto resident for 17 years, Maico Campilongo saw the lack of live music in the city and jumped at an opportunity in 2020 when California Avenue closed to traffic.

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Jim Campilongo is doing exactly what he wants to do -- make music for people to enjoy. His career began in the mid-70s when he started taking lessons with Bunnie Gregoire as a pre-teen and now he ...