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I'm interested to listen to more good chord-melody jazz guitar. I am becoming more and more interested in this style, but I am very much a newcomer to it.
Can anyone recommend some "must hear" chord-melody albums? What are the top 5 iconic chord-medley albums?
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08-15-2019 06:59 PM
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Pick It And Play It by Jonathan Stout.
Pick It and Play It | Jonathan Stout
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Ted Greene’s ”Solo Guitar” is one of my favorites in this style of jazz music. All ”Virtuoso” albums by Joe Pass are of course awesome too. William Ackerman have also made some great chord-melody albums but it’s probably too ambitious to call them straight-ahead jazz albums.
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Pasquale Grasso's solo standards album
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Originally Posted by Bbmaj7#5#9
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Originally Posted by Tricky Fish
Joe Pass -- Virtuoso
Johnny Smith -- Moonlight in Vermont
Wes - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montogmery (a lot of people might say he didn't really do chord-melody, but screw-em. A day without Wes is like ... a day without Wes.)
Gene Bertoncini - Someone to Light up My Life
Steve Masakowski -- Direct AXECess
It's a big subject, though, and there's obviously much, much more to explore than this.
John
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Forum member Tim Lerch has some excellent downloadable fingerstyle albums in the spirit of Ted Green, available here:
Tim Lerch Store
Example:
I avoid the term chord-melody as I’m not sure why it’s called that. There’s solo guitar, then fingerstyle vs. plectrum, and then the styles of various players. So perhaps “chord-melody” means in the style of guitarists who described their own style as that?
Matt Warnock defines chord-melody not as a synonym for solo guitar but as an approach to soloing by harmonizing the melody line. But I don’t think most guitarists would define it that way.
I don’t want to drive the thread off topic in a terminology dispute, but I thought I’d at least mentioned it since you used the term.Last edited by KirkP; 08-16-2019 at 01:29 PM.
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On the page of Jordy Farrés, A great Spanish guitarist, you can find his album "The George Van Eps Transcriptions" for free with the transcriptions of the songs.
Very nice and useful.
Downloads – Jordi Farres – GUITAR
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A couple of my favourites:
Andy Brown - Soloist.
Kenny Poole - Heritage.
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Originally Posted by cesarguit
Also worth checking out George Van Eps of course. There is a recording called Johnny Smith / George Van Eps - Legends, which features solo tracks by both of them.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
I’m not as impressed with the George Van Eps tracks, but his sense of time has never grabbed me.
I’d also recommend Martin Taylor, Howard Alden and Lenny Breau. I think they all have good solo albums.
Last edited by KirkP; 08-17-2019 at 09:13 AM.
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Originally Posted by FourOnSix
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My 2 favorite chord melody solo albums are "The Man With The Blue Guitar" by Johnny Smith.
And "Solo Guitar" by Mike Elliott.
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