Fender Announces Costello Signature Jazzmaster

Fender Announces Costello
Signature Jazzmaster
Fender announces a new Elvis Costello Signature Jazzmaster guitar, honoring one of the most recognized Jazzmaster players in music history. The iconic electric guitars produced in Fender's manufacturing headquarter in Corona, Calif. is a detailed replica of Costello's original instrument.

"I don't think there's one record I've made on which the Jazzmaster doesn't feature somewhere," Costello says.

This signature release comes during the 50-year anniversary of Fender's introduction of the Jazzmaster guitar model, which first appeared in 1958. Costello has been using it since the mid-1970s. At the time, the Jazzmaster guitar had largely fallen from fashion. Fender's new Elvis Costello Signature Jazzmaster replicates the guitar as it existed at the time he recorded his acclaimed 1977 debut album, My Aim Is True. Unique, Costello inspired features include a post-'68 neck design, a walnut stain finish and a tremolo with easier and greater travel. It has a MSRP of $2,149.99.
MMR Update May 9, 2008