Wow , Jazz Guitarists!

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Im getting into a big jazz streak now and I heard Stanley Jordan on the Jazz Channel the other day. Amazing! Anyone else heard this guy??? He is spectacular! He is so unique, with his double guitar tapping.

Im gonna get A Mahuvishnu cd soon , John M. is great. Also I checked out Django Rheinhart and Joe Pass, spectacular!

Any other Jazz guitar guys I should check out?

Thanks

[Passinwind]

Originally Posted by page

Im getting into a big jazz streak now and I heard Stanley Jordan on the Jazz Channel the other day. Amazing! Anyone else heard this guy??? He is spectacular! He is so unique, with his double guitar tapping.

Im gonna get A Mahuvishnu cd soon , John M. is great. Also I checked out Django Rheinhart and Joe Pass, spectacular!

Any other Jazz guitar guys I should check out?

Thanks

Wes Montgomery
Jim Hall
Grant Green
Charlie Christian
Pat Martino
Pat Metheny
John Scofield
Ralph Towner
Larry Coryell

[baba]

Mike Stern
Robben Ford
Bill Frisell
Joe Pass
Kenny Burrell

[Planet Boulder]

Saw Stanley Jordan play once and met him afterward. Incredible guitarist and very nice, humble, soft-spoken guy.

John Scofield is a hell of a guitarist, but I have a problem with the fact that he uses that annoying hyper-chorus effect on every single solo. It's fine here and there, but it gets tiresome hearing that thing kick in just when you're enjoying the lack of dissonance.

As for my fave, that would be the one and only Grant Green. Ernest Ranglin deserves mention as well.

[Passinwind]

Originally Posted by Planet Boulder

John Scofield is a hell of a guitarist, but I have a problem with the fact that he uses that annoying hyper-chorus effect on every single solo. It's fine here and there, but it gets tiresome hearing that thing kick in just when you're enjoying the lack of dissonance.

Last time I saw him, with the trio, he played a full set of standards with little or no chorus. The Rat pedal actually bugs me more, personally. The second set was mostly the groove stuff, but played way outside.

[baba]

Originally Posted by Planet Boulder

John Scofield is a hell of a guitarist, but I have a problem with the fact that he uses that annoying hyper-chorus effect on every single solo. .

I hear ya.

[Adam Barkley]

George Benson; if you are into scat soloing.
Al di Meola

[JimK]

Originally Posted by page

Im getting into a big jazz streak now and I heard Stanley Jordan on the Jazz Channel the other day. Amazing! Anyone else heard this guy???

I would think...everyone? He's been around 20 years now.
Jordan was in a Bruce Willis movie called Blind Date; a lotta casual listeners even picked up on him after that.
Jordan does do a one helluva Jimi Hendrix & Ravi Shankar impression.

FWIW-
One has to be careful when picking Wes Montgomery albums...some have strings; not as good as his 4-tet & 5-tet stuff, IMO. Same goes for George Benson...pre-Breezin, good, post-Breezin = Pop.
Personally, I like Pat Martino(lives behind my aunt & uncle's house in Philly). Footprints & Consciousness were two of the very 1st Jazz albums I owned. Killer version of "Impressions" on Consciousness.

Steve Khan I also liked. His jazzier stuff can be found on albums like Crossings, Let's Call This, Streamline, & Got My Mental.

[chimp]

i love Jordans tapping style he is one of my favorites. I myself love McLaughlin with Corea and Clarke! Growing up listening to nonstop guitar playing(my dads a guitarist from 60's/70's) i thought i knew what it was about but it has nothing on what ive heard jazz guitarists do since i became a jazz listener.

[Llama's Rage]

imo get VW's "A chick from corea"

good song

[DaveBeny]

Some others worth investigating:

Bill Frisell
John Abercrombie
Sonny Sharrock
Pete Cosey
Pat Metheny

A couple of up-and-coming young Brits are Justin Quinn and David Okumu.

[JazzDude]

This is a great book with transcriptions.
Best of Jazz Guitar

About Stanley Jordan, his two-handed style seems unique, and most of what I've heard of his material would be considered smooth jazz, FWIW.

[JimK]

Jordan's early albums contained some Jazz Standards...he would play walking/swing bass with his left hand as he solo'd/comped with his right hand.
His Shankar & Hendrix 'tributes' aren't very smooth, either.
On a whole, though, I do agree his later albums are "Contemporary Jazz"(buzzword for "Smooth Jazz").


Dude-a-reeno...
I just noticed your sig; I caught "The Big Lewbowski" a couple weeks ago. Funny stuff!

[stretchcat]

Originally Posted by page

Any other Jazz guitar guys I should check out?

Thanks

Jimmy Bruno
Frank Vignola