Mary Osborne was an American jazz electric guitarist. Osborne was born in Minot, North Dakota, the tenth of eleven children. Her family was very musically inclined; her mother played guitar and her ...

Despite the vast re-issue market both here and abroad, some jazz artists, sadly, continue to be overlooked. One of those is guitarist Mary Osborne. Despite appearing on 40 known jazz sessions and ...

Barnes and Osborne would both be 100 on July 17. Barnes grew up in Chicago and went on to play on Bob Dylan's first single. Osborne turned up on records by Mel Tormé , Wynonie Harris and others. This ...

It's perhaps too easy to say that Mary Osborne is an unsung heroine of jazz history, though there's certainly a large degree of truth to such a statement. A disciple of Charlie Christian, she played ...

For two decades, the 1940s and 1950s, the best female jazz guitarist in the nation was a North Dakota native. Mary Osborne, who grew up in Minot and Bismarck, was the first woman in the country to ...