When most people think small-bodied mahogany guitars, they think blues fingerpicking or folk strumming. But Martin’s 00-15E sounds as good when you flat-pick Thelonious Monk’s Latin-tinged jazz standard “Bye-Ya” as it does when you fingerpick arrangements of piano pieces by Erik Satie. On “Bye-Ya,” the guitar has a surprising amount of headroom, while the Satie pieces reveal a wide range of tonal colors as you move your hand between the fretboard and bridge.
For the full review, see the March 2016 issue of Acoustic Guitar or go to AcousticGuitar.com