TOP 100 Jazz Guitar Albums

**Dirk** · 10-26-2009, 03:27 PM

Update: view the final list here: Top 100 Jazz Guitar Albums

I'm trying to get a Jazz Guitar Album Top 100 together and I need your help. I started below by adding 10 albums that I think should be in the list. I need your help to complete the list, so please post the records that you feel should be included in the TOP 100.

Wes Montgomery - Full House
Pat Metheny - Question and Answer
Larry Carlton - Last Nite
George Benson - Breeezin'
Jim Hall - Dialogues
John Scofield - Time on My Hands
Mike Stern - Standards
Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Kevin Eubanks - Extensions

**holgit** · 10-26-2009, 03:41 PM

Hi,

Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
George Benson - Bad Benson
Mike Stern - Upside Downside
Mundell Lowe - Guitar Moods
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery
Philipp Van Endert - Trio (ok, it's a german guy. No one knows him here)

Regards

holgit

**charliew** · 10-26-2009, 03:55 PM

Johnny Smith - Favorites
Johnny Smith Trio - Easy Listening
Johnny Smith - Johnny Smith (Verve)
Charlie Byrd - The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd

**bobbyb37** · 10-26-2009, 03:57 PM

I'll add one:
Hank Garland - "Jazz Winds From a New Direction"

**Bertrand tB** · 10-26-2009, 03:59 PM

Birelli Lagrene - Standards

**JorgeC** · 10-26-2009, 03:59 PM

Earl Klugh, any of yhem

**bertland** · 10-26-2009, 04:03 PM

Wes Montgomery- Smokin' at the Half Note (or any other)
John McLaughlin- Extrapolation
Barney Kessel- Poll Winners Three
Grant Green- Idle Moments
John Basile- The Desmond Project
Pat Metheny- Question and Answer
George Benson- Beyond the Blue Horizon
Jim Hall & Ron Carter- Alone Together
Jimmy Bruno- Burnin'
Larry Coryell- Spaces

**kbradby** · 10-26-2009, 04:08 PM

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (

**asg618** · 10-26-2009, 04:09 PM

Grant Green - Live at Club Mozambique (Slammin' grooves, swingin' band, GG's most inventive and fun funk-fest. Maybe more funk than jazz, but any jazz guitarist will love what GG's up to here!)

Pat Metheny - Day Trip/Bright Size Life (PM deserves more than one disc on this list, and for me, these are the 2 that I come back to repeatedly. The melodies are gorgeous, each trio band is tight, and Pat's playing is the exciting and expressive that it's ever been IMHO).

Steve Kahn - The Suitcase (Live) (SK with an unbeatable rhythm section of Anthony Jackson and Dennis Chambers - fun, exciting, and the playing by all involved is exquisite. Some of the compositions tend to sound a bit alike, but when it's all this good, I don't mind a bit).

Front Page (Birelli LaGrene, Dennis Chambers, and Dominic Di Piazza - probably my favorite modern trio recording, these guys simply cook. LaGrene and Di Piazza are true virtuosos, and for me this recording brings out the best of them both in ways that their solo recordings never consistently capture. And Chambers on drums - he's just a force onto himself, and he keeps this whole thing driving and kicking forward with thrilling momentum. For its compositions, playing, production values - really, every available category, this one's not to be missed!)

There are more, I'm sure, but for now these get my vote!

**gbeck** · 10-26-2009, 04:11 PM

Kurt Rosenwinkel, Deep Song
Bill Frisell, History, Mystery
Grant Green, Idle Moments
John Abercrombie Quartet, The Third Quartet
Liberty Ellman, Tactiles

**Dirk** · 10-26-2009, 04:11 PM

Submitted by mail:

Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
Joe Beck - Strangers in the Night

**basser** · 10-26-2009, 04:11 PM

Hi,

John McLaughlin - My Goal's Beyond
Pat Martino - Exit
Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
Wes Montgomery - The incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
Joe Pass - Virtuoso

**Johnty** · 10-26-2009, 04:11 PM

Joe Pass virtuoso
Manitas da Plata
Barney Kessel

**Rick1950** · 10-26-2009, 04:13 PM

Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Pat Metheny/Charlie Haden - Beyond the Missouri Sky

**Danmyfun** · 10-26-2009, 04:15 PM

Joe Pass - Virtuoso

**mcniac** · 10-26-2009, 04:15 PM

i think Wichcraft from George Benson should be in the list
also some from joe pass, maybe those called Virtuoso?

Esteban

PS: btw this is my first post here, hello!

**Regats** · 10-26-2009, 04:17 PM

One towers above the rest: Kenny Burrell - Guitar Forms, with arrangements by Gil Evans. One of the most beautiful jazz albums ever recorded.

Also

Jim Hall, with Bill Evans - Undercurrents
Genius x 2, communicating almost telepathically.

Wes, Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow, Django Reinhardt, other Burrell - too many to choose from.

(Someone said Earl Klugh. Was that a joke?)

**elja** · 10-26-2009, 04:20 PM

My favourites: all Emily Remler-albums:

Emily Remler - Firefly
Emily Remler - Take Two
Emily Remler - Transitions
Emily remler - Catwalk
Emily Remler - East to Wes
Emily Remler - This is Me.

Larry Coryell & Emily Remler - Together
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz guitar of Wes M.
Pat Martino - Remember (Wes Montgomery)
Barbara Jungfer - Berlin Spirits
Kenny Burell - Midnight Blue

**mr. beaumont** · 10-26-2009, 04:21 PM

hey, i'll pick a few that are a little "off the beaten path"

barry galbraith-- guitar and the winds (one of the few albums featuring the great barry as a leader)

kenny wheeler-- angel song (possibly bill frisell at his finest)

ahmad jamal-- chamber music of the new jazz (guitarist ray crawford shines here as the ultimate in understatement--a TRUE accompanyist)

emily remler-- firefly (sure she sounds a bit like wes here, but it's TASTY)

paul motian--garden of eden (3 guitarists!, including a rather subdued but still awesome ben monder)

and a few "everyone who plays jazz guitar should have these" choices:

jimmy raney-- wisteria, the master, raney '81, hell, ANYTHING he did on criss cross or steeplechase.

phillip catherine-- thinking of you (a tribute to chet baker with tom harrell and hein van de gein. AWESOME)

grant green-- green street and matador (for those who think grant was only good at playing over two chord vamps)

wolfgang muthspiel-- real book tales (i think the title is right, i only have this as some swiped mp3's from a friend--sorry wolfgang, i'll buy it soon)
nice, modern takes on some old chestnuts.

ed bickert (with don thompson) at the garden party-- fantastic guitar/bass duos that really allow you to hear ed's genius.

wes montgomery-- a dynamic new sound (this is old wes, but still my favorite...i love the 'round midnight on here about as much as any version i've ever heard)

oh, one more!

jim hall/art farmer: big blues (there's just something about this record)

**Dirk** · 10-26-2009, 04:22 PM

Another email submit:

Tuck Andress - Wreckless Precision

**celan** · 10-26-2009, 04:23 PM

Not sure if these would make everyone's top 100 but I have to mention...
Tuck Andress - Reckless Precision
Kurt Rosenwinkel - Deep Song
Charlie Hunter - Bing Bing Bing (Not sure which album to choose for CH)

Maybe something representative of more "far-out" players like Marc Ribot, Derek Bailey, or Ben Monder...

**pineapple** · 10-26-2009, 04:24 PM

- Barney Kessel: Kessel Plays Standards (must have)
- Progressions: 100 years of jazz guitar (must listen to disc 2 and 3)
- Pat Martino: All sides now (must learn I'm confessing)
- Franco Cerri: Di Jazz in Jazz (must know the Italian old guy)
- many others

**anarchristian** · 10-26-2009, 04:24 PM

Pat Martino's "El Hombre" (especially for "Just Friends")

**Lostchord** · 10-26-2009, 04:28 PM

Joe Pass - Virtuoso
Joe Pass - Live at Montreaux
Joe Pass and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - Chops
Lenny Breau - Live on Bourbon Street
John McLaughlin - After the Rain
Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert
Kurt Rosenwinkel - Deep Song
Joe Henderson - So Near, So Far
Wes Montgomery - Full House
Theloneous Monk - Straight, no Chaser
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Crap...where do you stop?

**TruespinBoy** · 10-26-2009, 04:28 PM

Charlie Christian - Genius of the electric guitar
Wes Montgomery - Smoking at the half-note
Ed Bickert - Live at the Garden Party
Jimmy Raney - Jimmy Raney : A
Johnny Smith - Moonlight in Vermont (w. Stan Getz)
Joe Pass - Virtuoso
George Benson - Beyond the Blue Horizon
Jim Hall - Alone Together (w. Ron Carter)
Lenny Breau - Live at Bourbon St.
Pat Martino - Exit

Not too original, I guess.