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I was thinking who do you think the most financially successful jazz guitarist (isn't that an oxymoron?) is? I'm limiting it to people who made money from music.
who do you think would be up there? george benson? metheny?
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05-02-2017 11:18 PM
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george benson..cause he sang too..he had pop hits..breezin album sold millions
cheers
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Gotta be George, yeah.
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G.B., hands down.
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What are you measuring success by, if financial then Pat Metheny is up there with Benson. After that then I'd say there are some comfortable guitarists, but most are doing it for love of the music.
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Me! I have two $50 gigs this week!!
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Do we really want to measure success in monetary terms? I can't imagine myself ever coming up with that question. Sorry. As for the result, frankly, my dear, I couldn't give a damn.
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You could measure success in lots of different ways but I was thinking financially.
Having said that, there's heaps of people who have successful careers and have little to no financial success. Makes me think of how someone on another thread mentioned that Alan holdsworth was going through a tough time despite the fact that he had a successful career.
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It's not only about making money but also about spending it. A lot of rock musicians have made and squandered millions, or forgot to pay their taxes and were hounded by the Inland Revenue.
Measuring success in monetary terms seems a very American thing to do. Still - which other criteria come to mind? Influence? Then you'd ask "Who is the most influencial jazz guitarist" and come up with CC, Django, Wes. Artistic success? Great, but how would you define it. Downbeat poll winners? Cover of Guitar magazine? I don't know. Better not start that discussion...
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If you're happy, you're a lot more successful than most of the guitarists struggling with their "success"
Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
David
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Sting. He plays guitar. He worked with Miles. He stole Mile's band. They were more successful with him. I guess Sting.
Or Pete Townsend?
Who remembers that really tasteful chord solo he recorded on one of his lesser known projects?
David
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Maybe that makes him an example of a jazz guitarist who made money with something else and so it doesn't quite address the question. Maybe that leaves Metheny and McLaughlin? Originally Posted by neatomic
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I would add John Scofield to the list, he achieves success in several domains.
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Originally Posted by Binyomin
I don't think McLaughlin has made that much he's a guitarist's guitarist, doesn't have the household status Benson and Metheny have. Wes was getting to be a household name with his A&M records and hits like Day In A Life, but he passed. Now someone every one hears but doesn't realize it is Grant Green a bunch of his stuff has been sampled and is part of hits today.Last edited by docbop; 05-03-2017 at 04:04 PM.
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Don't forget Les Paul (the man not the guitar) ... he had some big hits with Mary Ford and worked with Bing Crosby and other swing era greats for several years
Estimates put his net worth at $10 Million before he passed away
Les Paul Net Worth | Celebrity Net Worth
GB's networth seems to be around $5 million which seems low for his accomplishments
George Benson Net Worth | Celebrity Net Worth
Last I heard Metheny was also worth about $5 Million ... which places him on par with GeorgeLast edited by Bluedawg; 05-03-2017 at 04:26 PM.
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By contrast, Andy Summers, the guitarist with The Police, and a sorta kinda jazzy guitarist for a rock group, is worth $100 million.
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The OP says financially successful, so it couldn't be Joe Pass - or could it?
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Originally Posted by nick1994
As for limiting it to "people who made money from music" ... do you mean people who made their money only in music
or who made money in music and invested it wisely and maybe a lucky investment here and there
Kenny G is supposedly worth $40 million ... but my contacts in the saxophone world tell me that most of that comes from being an original investor in Starbucks Coffee
difficult to separate the two
then there's folks who made good money and blew it all
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Ahh yes off course .. one of the guitar heroes from my youth. He's recorded a Monk record and a Mingus record, but made all that money playing add9 chords behind Sting, who has been mention already in this thread. Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
I also learned today from dutchboppers great blog post on Andreas Oberg that he makes big money writing pop hits for the asian market.Last edited by Lobomov; 05-03-2017 at 05:46 PM.
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If he writes K-pop stuff, my estimation of him goes up a notch, although I only watch K-pop videos in private Originally Posted by Lobomov
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I looked up his wiki. There was an looong list of bands, so I just picked a few 'Randomly' Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
If he writes K-pop stuff, my estimation of him goes up a notch, although I only watch K-pop videos in private
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Any jazz guitarist playing gigs he or she likes is successful.
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I think one measure of success for a jazz guitarist is that his (or her) appeal isn't limited to fans of the guitar. In that sense, I think Wes ranks very high.
And Django. Who doesn't love Django?
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There's some laboratory in S. Korea where they manufacture these bands. Originally Posted by Lobomov
I looked up his wiki. There was an looong list of bands, so I just picked a few 'Randomly'
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I was just thinking that in the glory days of the Mahavishnu Orchestra they were playing in the venues used by rock groups and usually on the same bill with rock groups. There had to be some money in that. Originally Posted by docbop
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