Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fender Jazzmasters Released as Fender’s top-of-the-line electric Spanish guitar in 1958, the Jazzmaster was an instant misnomer.

How did a guitar that failed to grab its intended market – the market it was literally named after – end up becoming the instrument of choice across surf-rock, post-punk, new wave, power pop, shoegaze ...

Launching that expansion was the Jazzmaster, a high-end electric that continued Fender's ambition to be taken seriously by discerning customers (in this case jazz musicians) and to distance itself ...