My Morning Jacket’s jam-band festival origins aren’t easy to discern when listening to their later, song-driven studio albums. There’s not a lot of what critics call “noodling,” the practice of long, ...

It was “Sears Night” in Denver when two “master craftsmen,” Joe Satriani and Steve Morse performed instrumental pyrotechnics for the mostly male audience at the Paramount Theatre on Sept. 4. The Steve ...