TOP 100 Jazz Guitar Albums - Page 3

mschaner · #61 10-26-2009, 05:10 PM

I'm brand new to the forum and still in my infancy of learning about jazz guitar. Therefore, I'm not knowledgeable enough to make a suggestion to the top 100 list.

I do, however, have a question. I haven't yet seen any mention of a Les Paul recording to the list. Are there any worthy of the top 100? If not, then why?

Thanks,
Mike

rootman · #62 10-26-2009, 05:15 PM

Heh Guys, I'd like to throw a vote for Wes' Smoking at the Half Note. Something about that live vibe that was special. Now it may be out of print but Columbia had a double album of most of the really great Charlie Christian stuff. Also we've got to get Django on there somehow, right? Finally, a personal favorite Tiny grimes. He should be represented for just being the swinging-est cat ever.

JorisFun · #63 10-26-2009, 05:16 PM

Ok it's obvious that we have an enormous heritage in good jazz guitar. Check these contemporary jewels:
Martijn van Iterson: The Whole Bunch and Streetwise
Jonathan Kreisberg: The South Of Everywhere and Night Songs

guitarsex · #64 10-26-2009, 05:22 PM

Jim hall- Commitment
Tal farlow/lenny breau - chance meeting
Wes montgomery-portrait of wes
Django reinhardt-Art of jazz guitar
Kenny burrell/John coltrane
Jim hall-concierto
Tal farlow-chromatic palette
Wes montgomery-Boss guitar
Mahavishnu orchestra-birds of fire
Barney kessel-poll winners
Jim hall/attilla zoller-live in hannover

pauljoey · #65 10-26-2009, 05:24 PM

I'm taking the easy road, everyone I would have chosen have been taken.

summerbreezelandn · #66 10-26-2009, 05:28 PM

I'm the new old guy
One of my all time favorite albums is
Velvet Guitar
Hank "Sugarfoot" garland

chasthur · #67 10-26-2009, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mschaner

I'm brand new to the forum and still in my infancy of learning about jazz guitar. Therefore, I'm not knowledgeable enough to make a suggestion to the top 100 list.

I do, however, have a question. I haven't yet seen any mention of a Les Paul recording to the list. Are there any worthy of the top 100? If not, then why?

Thanks,
Mike

I'm new, too, but am interested in any remarks that may be made by these jazz peeps. I've never considered Les Paul to be a jazz man, per se. I've always thought of him as a 'pop' guitarist. He worked with Jim Atkins, Chet's big brother, with that trio and Jim was a good jazz player as well as a big band guitarist but Les?........ I don't think he was considered a jazz guitarist.

Jazzdad · #68 10-26-2009, 05:31 PM

We cannot have a 100 top jazz guitar albums without including Tal Farlow. Maybe include The Complete Verve Tal Farlow Sessions. Any other suggestions for the best Tal Farlow representation?
Also we will need representative titles from Mundel Lowe, Herb Ellis, Johnny Smith, George Van Eps and Kenny Burrell.

ragman1 · #69 10-26-2009, 05:32 PM

Joe Pass - International

chambers_62918 · #70 10-26-2009, 05:36 PM

Barney Kessel - Kessel Plays Standards
Charlie Byrd - The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd
Charlie Chritian - The Original Guitar Hero
Jim Hall - Hallmarks

Most, if not all of these have already been mentioned. I thank the others for their lists. Gives me ideas of what to spend more money on at Amazon.

guitarsex · #71 10-26-2009, 05:40 PM

Some jimmy raney. Johnny smith-moonlight in vermont! Very difficult but beautiful chords. Oh! Jim hall/bill evans-undercurrent. Two jims and a zoot by Jim hall,Jimmy raney and zoot sims. I'm thinking of a lot more now. I'll put em down as they come.

Coyote · #72 10-26-2009, 05:46 PM

Wes Montgomery - The incredible jazz guitar or Wes montgomery trio
Grant Green - Idle moments or Grantstand
Pat Martino - El hombre or Footprints
Kenny Burrell - Softly as a summer breeze (with jimmy smith) or
Peter Bernstein - Earth tones
George Benson - Blue benson (it's his jazz album)
Lenny Breau - Five o'clock bells.

jamlabor · #73 10-26-2009, 06:02 PM

mike stern's upside downside.

GrooveKing · #74 10-26-2009, 06:02 PM

George Benson - Thats Right
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire
Joe Pass - Apassionato
John Scofield - Hand Jive
John Mc Laughlin - The Promise
Django Reinhardt - Djangology
Al Di Meola - Rite Of Strings
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
Andy Summers, Dennis Chambers, Darryl Jones - Live at Frankfurt Jazz Festival 2001
Marcus Miller - The Ozell Tapes

leegenix · #75 10-26-2009, 06:13 PM

Wes Montgomery's A Day In The Life.

Kenny Burrel with Jimmy Smith's, Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf.

Chev · #76 10-26-2009, 06:16 PM

so many so many...
George Benson: Jazzmasters 21, Live with McCoy Tyner - Trio Round Midnight.
Bill Frisell: with Dave Holland and Elvin Bishop, Disfarmer.
John Scofield: Quiet, What we do, This meets that.
Joe Pass: Pacific Jazz series, Tudo bien,Speak Love,Again(with Ella Fitzgerald),Unforgettable.
Tal Farlow: Tal, Return of Tal.
Bireli Lagrene: Standards, The Complete Gipsy project,Djangology.
Grant Green:The Latin Bit, Live at the Lighthouse,The complete recordings with Sonny Clark
Tomatito and Michael Camillo: Spain again.
Luc Sylavin:Sud, Trio Sud, Young and Fine.
Wes Montgomery: Smoking at the Halfnote,The Verve Jazz Sides,56-63 on Riverside,Groove Yard,Bags meets Wez ....
I´m glad somebody here put in Emily Remler! Such a great,sweet guitarace she was - Retrospective vol 1-2.

Dirk - how about some kind of database/register? A lot easier to search than this mess.

SJM · #77 10-26-2009, 06:18 PM

Hi, this is my first post. I had to chip in because I don't think anyone has mentioned one of my favourite jazz guitar albums of all time: For Django by the great Joe Pass. I had the privilege of seeing him live back in the 80s and it was the most impressive playing I've ever seen and heard. For Django is his best, most complete album IMHO.

gtrhead · #78 10-26-2009, 06:25 PM

These are in no particualar order. I just numbered them to see how many I was able to think of...

Round Midnight (Kenny Burrell)
Jim Hall Live (Jim Hall)
Concierto (Jim Hall)
Boss Guitar (Wes Montgomery)
Solo Guitar (Ted Greene)
One Quiet Night (Pat Metheny)
The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark (Grant Greene)
Standards (and Other Songs) (Mike Stern)
Live @ Boulevard Music (Jim Nichols & Richard Smith)
Virtuoso (Joe Pass)
I Can See Your House From Here (Pat Metheny & John Scofield)
Larry & Lee (Larry Carlton & Lee Ritenour)
Land of the Midnight Sun (Al Dimeola)
Jazz Masters 41 (Tal Farlow)
Offramp (Pat Metheny)
The First Circle (Pat Metheny)
Magic Touch (Stanley Jordan)
Reel to Reel (Carl Verheyen & Karl Ratzer)
Impressions (Pat Martino)
Time in Place (Mike Stern)
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (Jim Hall & Pat Metheny)
Standards (Grant Green)
Still Warm (John Scofield)

czgibson · #79 10-26-2009, 06:31 PM

Most of the records I would have mentioned are here already, so I'll just give a shout for Oscar Moore - his work with the Nat King Cole Trio is fine. Also, Paul Desmond's Live album has some beautiful playing from Ed Bickert.

Stein4 · #80 10-26-2009, 06:41 PM

The Norwegian guitrist Robert Normann was such a genious that when Django Reinhardt was inviteted to Norway, he replied: "What do you need me for when you got Robert Normann"!

Normann's remaining family still sells his records from their website Robert Normann - www.robertnormann.no - buy "The definitive collection..." record 1-5. It will be the best few dollars or euros you have ever spent as a jazz guitarist (you pay a fee and then download the digitaly restored masterpieces). You can listen parts of most of his work here: Robert Normann - www.robertnormann.no

Aladin111 · #81 10-26-2009, 06:46 PM

Here some others i like very much

Horace Silver : in pursuit of the 27th man
Jaga Jazzist ( a very underestimated Norwegian band ) : a livingroom hush
Phillip Catherine : summer night
Lee Morgan : the sidewinder
Wes Montgomery : bumpin'
Wes Montgomery : tequila
Charles Mingus : ah um
Georges Benson : the Georges Benson collection
Bruno Martino : innamorarsi mai
Lou Donaldson : everything i play is funky

leegenix · #82 10-26-2009, 06:46 PM

I'm glad some of you remembered artists like Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow. Let's not forget the late Tommy Tedesco formerly of Fernwood Tonight, The Gong Show, and many of contributions as a studio session player and mentor to Toto's guitarist. Tedesco was so smooth, he was talking to another musician while playing and made it look so easy, especially when not even looking at his fingers like it was nothing.

Bebop Fusion · #83 10-26-2009, 06:49 PM

Larry Carlton - On Solid Ground
Pat Martino - Cream
Herb Ellis - Conversations In Swing Guitar
Kenny Burrell - A Night At The Vangaurd
John Scofield - This Meets That

philipjkim · #84 10-26-2009, 07:03 PM

Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent, Intermodulation
Jim Hall Trio - Jazz Guitar
Ted Greene - Solo Guitar
Paul Desmond with Ed Bickert - Pure Desmond, Like Someone in Love
Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel & Herb Ellis - Great Guitars at Charlie's Georgetown
Julie London with Barney Kessel - Julie is Her Name
Barney Kessel - Kessel Plays Standard
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Pat Martino - Cream

petermelton · #85 10-26-2009, 07:04 PM

Great idea! I'm sure there's something we can all get from this

George Van Eps - Mellow Guitar
Trio of Doom - Trio of Doom
Frank Gambale - Thinking Out Loud
Allan Holdsworth - 16 Men of Tain
Joe Pass - Virtuoso
Ron Eschete - In the Middle
Pat Metheny - Trio 99
Wes Montgomery - Smokin' at the Half Note

Parsnipfingers · #86 10-26-2009, 07:08 PM

Dave Cliff and Friends - "When Lights are Low"
Bill Frisell - "Unspeakable"
Ernest Ranglin - "Below the Bassline"
Derek Bailey and Henry Kaiser - "Wireforks"

Not exhaustive by any stretch of the imagination and many I would have been inclined to add have already been mentioned (Joe Pass, Django, Kessel, Scofield... and on and on; oh, and hats off to whoever brought the remarkable genius Frank Zappa into the mix.)
If I was asked next week, my favourites would have changed (twice, probably.)

It's so subjective but I think it's a great idea for a thread and it's interesting to see folks' opinions as much as the final top 100. Not only that but it'll certainly bring more jazz into my field of vision and get me buying again (even though I've got no money since I spent it on a custom shop 335... I guess I'll have to buy less beer and food for a bit

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mschaner

I'm brand new to the forum and still in my infancy of learning about jazz guitar. Therefore, I'm not knowledgeable enough to make a suggestion to the top 100 list.

I do, however, have a question. I haven't yet seen any mention of a Les Paul recording to the list. Are there any worthy of the top 100? If not, then why?

Thanks,
Mike

As far as I'm concerned Jazz shouldn't be filed in the 'up it's own ringpiece' category on the shelf; John Zorn's "Jazz Snob Eat Shlt" always springs to mind if anyone gets anal about their favourite Jazzer. Your opinion is as valid as anyone elses and if you think Les Paul deserves a place in the list then get stuck in.

dave_61 · #87 10-26-2009, 07:31 PM

Romantic Warrior,,,Return to Forever

guitarjam · #88 10-26-2009, 07:31 PM

Barney Kessel - The Poll Winners
Joe Pass - Portraits of Duke Ellington
Joe Pass - Live at Donte's
Andreas Oberg - Young Jazz Guitarist
Cal Collins - Blues On My Mind
Herb Ellis - Ellis In Wonderland
Jimmy Bruno - Sleight of Hand
Howard Roberts - Color Him Funky
Kenny Burrell - On View at the Five Spot Cafe
Tal Farlow - A Sign of the Times
Howard Roberts - H.R. is a Dirty Guitar Player

williamnj · #89 10-26-2009, 07:32 PM

i like george benson -love remembers. i like many that are on the list .i would like to see the list when you finished.

Mozz · #90 10-26-2009, 07:46 PM

This a must:

Weather Report - 8:30