Favorite (not 'best') Guitarists

[P.J.]

[quote=Tom Karol;45039]Who are your favorite guitarists – not the ‘best’ – just your personal favorites?

Here's 10 (I could list 1,000's!)
Bill Frisell
John Abercrombie
Ben Monder
Allan Holdsworth
John Scofield
David Torn
Jimmy Raney
Ed Bickert
Terje Rypdal
Mick Goodrick

=-) PJ

[Little Jay]

Great lists here!

Some others, that are not my alltime favourites (no, those are -how surprisingly- Wes, Kenny, Grant, etc) but that I discovered recently and are being listened to a lot lately:

Toots Thielemans (on guitar! his early albums)
Sacha Distel (the French jazz guitarist before his relationship with Brigitte Bardot and becoming a popular chansonier)
Tiny Grimes (Chuck Berry invented rock'n'roll? Forget it! Tiny did!)
Elec Bacsik (a Hungarian cousin of Django Reinhardt)

[Little Jay]

And how could I forget Henri Salvador?

This man sings all his lines along and makes me realize that a strong melody of 10 notes is much more pleasant to listen to then a 1000-note-technical-high-flight...

His album "Salvador plays the blues" always brings a smile on my face! (Like it did on his too if you can believe the album-cover ;-)

[pmgnut]

Pat Metheny
Pat Martino
Terje Rydal
Herb Ellis
Frank Zappa
Michael Hedges
Joe Diorio
Danny Heines

[mongrel]

Pat Martino
John McLaughlin
Larry Coryell
Jeff Beck
Jimmy Raney (RIP)
Bill Frisell
Peter (early) & Grant Green (RIP)
Danny Gatton (RIP)
Greg Howe
Brad Shepik
Mike Bloomfield (RIP)

[nineacres]

Pat Martino
Django
Joe Pass
Johnny Smith
Robben Ford
Larry Carlton
Chris Cain
Herb Ellis
Bireli Lagrene
Brad Paisley
Wes
Howard Roberts

Oh, ... and Jimmy Bruno
Jimmy Raney

[mongrel]

Forgot a couple of others--

Gabor Szabo
John Lee Hooker
Lowell George
Tommy Bolin
Russelll Malone
Keith Richard
Barry Tashian
Gibb Droll

[P.J.]

[quote=P.J.;45378][quote=Tom Karol;45039]Who are your favorite guitarists – not the ‘best’ – just your personal favorites?

Here's another 10 (I could list 1,000's!)
Jimmy Raney
Danny Gatton
Arlen Roth
Duke Levine
Junior Brown
Daniel Lanois
Nels Cline
Albert Lee
Michael Schenker
Leslie West

=-)PJ

[Metal Fingers]

ya there are Lots of monsters all out there.

I thought it was cool to see Bruce Cockburn on a list.definitely one of my heroes.(super nice guy as well)
What a song writer (yes lots of cheese as well)but his rhythms are very difficult to sing along with,the way he does it.(for me at least)

a lot of the players I listed are the ones who turned me on to guitar and led me to love playing.I'm sure many of the others on these lists will be future influences on me.

[P.J.]

Originally Posted by Metal Fingers

ya there are Lots of monsters all out there.

I thought it was cool to see Bruce Cockburn on a list.definitely one of my heroes.(super nice guy as well)
What a song writer (yes lots of cheese as well)but his rhythms are very difficult to sing along with,the way he does it.(for me at least)

a lot of the players I listed are the ones who turned me on to guitar and led me to love playing.I'm sure many of the others on these lists will be future influences on me.

I just heard "Rocket Launcher" in a music store yesterday. Cue Twilight Zone Music..... =-) PJ

[Jazzarian]

[quote=P.J.;45378]

Originally Posted by Tom Karol

Who are your favorite guitarists – not the ‘best’ – just your personal favorites?

Here's 10 (I could list 1,000's!)
Bill Frisell
John Abercrombie
Ben Monder
Allan Holdsworth
John Scofield
David Torn
Jimmy Raney
Ed Bickert
Terje Rypdal
Mick Goodrick

=-) PJ

Nobody mentioned Peter Bernstein? I'd like to add him to everyone's list.

[Metal Fingers]

no! you have to make your own list.

[Jazzarian]

Originally Posted by Metal Fingers

no! you have to make your own list.

OK, I'll start with me on my list.

It's hard figuring out who's the best so as to NOT include them on the list. IF there's a "The Best", that excludes everyone else, a concept I can't deal with.

[Holmes Monaco]

kurt rosenwinkel and ben monder

[P.J.]

Here's another 10 (I could list 1,000's!)
Amos Garrett
Roy Buchanan
Jerry Donahue
Will Ray
Gary Louris (Jayhawks)
Bernie Leadon
Jimmy Bryant
Hank Garland
Jerry Hahn
Pete Anderson

=-)PJ

[patskywriter]

baden powell
joão gilberto
kenny burrell
wes montgomery
rosinha de valença
george benson
jorge ben
daryl steurmer
t-bone walker
john lee hooker
oscar castro-neves
howard morgen
lenny breau
phil upchurch
andy summers
david amaro
bola sete
earl klugh
keith richards
tommy emmanuel
dori caymmi

[Michael Keller]

Ted Greene
Joe Diorio
Joe Pass
Wayne Krantz
Allan Holdsworth
Scott Henderson
Jody Fisher
Marty Friedman
Paul Gilbert
Lightnin' Hopkins
Elliott Easton
Shawn Lane
Ty Tabor
Michael Hedges
Mike Keneally
Frank Zappa
Ed Wynne
Jeff Beck
David Chastain

[mangotango]

In no particular order, natch:

Hank Marvin
Pat Metheny
Joe Pass
Kenny Burrell
T-Bone Walker
Larry Carlton
Dr Martin Taylor MBE
Django Reinhardt
Jim Mullen
Grant Green
Jonathan Kreisberg
Charlie Christian
Peter Green
Jim Hall
Kurt Rosenwinkel
John Scofield (most of the time)
Len Argent
George Benson
Duke Robillard
Adrian Belew

[nateroberts]

Adam Rogers
Kurt Rosenwinkel
Ben Monder
Rez Abassi
Ed Bickert
Jim Hall
Mike Moreno

[bass2man]

Duane Allman
Jeff Beck
George Barnes
Hank Garland
Barney Kessel
Herb Ellis
Sal Salvador
Wes
Benson

Newer guys are:

Jimmy Bruno
Mark Elf
Howard Arlen
Andreas Oberg

Wow..great list!! Steve Morse, Zappa, Merle Travis....forgot about those..Thanks for reminding me..I need to go dig out some old Dixie Dregs and "Weasels ripped my flesh"...

[savatJD]

Phil Keaggy

Glenn Pearce

Allan Holdsworth

Michael Hedges

Fred Sokolow

Eric Johnson

Lincoln Brewster

Martin Taylor

[Innerurge1]

Kurt Rosenwinkel
Jim Hall
Lionel Loueke
Hendrix
Ed Bickert
Pat Metheny
Pat Martino
John Scofield
Jonathan Kreisberg
Billy Bauer
Wes Montgomery

[Bigmagic]

Great lists most of my favorites have already been mentioned. I will add a few:

Buddy Guy
BB King
We said favorites so the Blues guys gotta be there:

Tony Rice
Steve Kaufman
Brad Davis
These guys kick serious but in the Bluegrass field(jazzgrass I like to call it)

I have been led to many a great guitarist by this site I'll just take this time to say thanks to everyone here for being willing to share and help your fellow guitarists. Happy Holidays!

[GuitaRoland]

Yes, always - my personal favourite in jazz/blues, the one and only: Chris Cain
and Drew Zingg
and Robben Ford
and Larry Carlton
and Joe Pass
and Pat Martino

Okay - six of them will do!

/Roland

[BillyC]

Anyone ever heard of Joe Cohn, son of sax player Al Cohn?

[khingdheano]

Here's another 10, some mentioned previously, others maybe not:


Mundell Lowe
Chuck Wayne
John Pizzarelli
James Burton
Michael Hedges
Clarence White
William Ackerman
Pat Metheny
Jimmy Page
Jimi Hendrix

Kind of a gamut here, from Lowe to Ackerman to Hendrix, but hey, my favorites, right?

[skei]

Have to add two names to my list;
Jim Hall
Bob Dylan

I just forgot them, no harm intended...
Peace
Skei (the mutineer one)

[daveg]

Anyone mention BILLY BUTLER?

[liviu]

it's interesting.....what you all have written here but...we should disscuss the concept of jazz guitar......what we understand throw this exprssion......jazz guitarist......

[zonedout245]

Grant Green
Joe Puma
Ted Greene
Lenny Breau
John Mayer
Carlos Santana
Jimi Hendrix
Genil Castro