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10-27-2009, 08:33 AM
#126
What about Bill Frisells version of 'Moonriver' on Bill Frisell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones??
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10-27-2009, 08:44 AM
#127
I know Jose Feliciano is not known for the Jazz idiom, but it was Jose's early Spanish bolero music that eventually re-directed me to Jazz. During his early Latin releases of albums like "Exitos de Jose Feliciano" and "Mas Exitos de Jose Feliciano" I was hearing these lush chords being played against the backdrop of Standard boleros from South America that really piqued my interest. What it was taking three guitarists (Trios) to perform on their guitars, Jose was doing on just one.
I eventually hired a professional transcriptionist to tab out about 42 of Jose's songs from this era and I was absolutely right. There amidst those wonderful melodies and classic songs I found every imaginable advanced Jazz chord you could think of. And his soloing was just as excellent.
From here I became more immersed in Jazz and discovered all the other great Jazz artists that I had never noticed before. So I have to forever salute Jose for opening up that wonderful world of Jazz to me.
The music I am referring to is the music he used to play with just guitar, bass and percussion. After those years there were more elaborate orchestrations added to his music, and I felt that something was lost. Namely the fact that I wasn't able to hear that wonderful raw guitar as much as those early records. But I am forever a fan!
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10-27-2009, 08:48 AM
#128
Wes Montgomery (almost everything) These two are the greatest
Django Reinhardt (almost everything)
Lenny Breau live at Bourbon Street and others (genius)
Danny Gatton: Relentless and New York Stories (genius)
Scotty Anderson: Triple Stop (country jazz fusion ~ staggering!)
Jimmy Bruno: Burning (wow!)
Joe Pass: Joyspring and many others
Barney Kessel: Just Friends, live in Stockholm '73 (relentless swing)
Grant Green: Green Street
Howard Roberts & The Magic Band II, live in LA '68
Pat Martino: Live at Yoshi's
George Barnes: Don't get around much anymore
John McLaughlin: Trio of Doom and live Mahavishnu Orchestra
Johnny Smith (almost everything)
Stochelo Rosenberg
Frank Vignola
The list just goes on and on and let's not forget the pioneers Eddie Lang and Charlie Christian.
There are so many like Eddie Lang, Charlie Christian who set the way
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10-27-2009, 08:58 AM
#129
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazzguitar Of Wes Montgomery
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Tal Farlow - The Return Of Tal Farlow
Grant Green - Green Street
Grant Green - The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clarke
Emily Remler - East To Wes
Jimmy Raney - Jimmy Raney Visits Paris, vol 1&2
Jesse van Ruller - Live At Murphy's Law
Toots Thielemans - Blues Pour Flirter
George Benson - Giblet Gravy
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10-27-2009, 09:00 AM
#130
Won't try to be original - many of these have already been mentioned - but just off the top of my head from my own collection (past and present):
Charlie Christian - Solo Flight-The Genius of Charlie Christian (orginal vinyl album on Columbia)
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery; The bluesy one he did with Jimmy Smith (don't remember the name)
Herb Ellis & Charlie Byrd - Guitar/Guitar
Joe Pass & Herb Ellis - Two For The Road
Joe Pass - Virtuoso
Jim Hall & Bill Evans - Intermodulation
George Benson - It's Uptown or Cookbook
Howard Roberts - Good Pickin's; HR is a Dirty Guitar Player
Attila Zoller & Lee Konitz - When It's Time
Kenny Burrell - Men at Work
George Barnes & Bucky Pizarelli - Duo album (don't remember the name)
Django - The Quintet of the Hot Club of France (double album).
Last edited by Tom Karol; 10-27-2009 at 10:37 AM.
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10-27-2009, 09:28 AM
#131
Hi, This is my first post.
I should put in the list some of these albums:
"Tradicional ways":
Charlie Christian: “Complete studio recordings”
Django Reinhardt: "Djangology"
Grant Green: "First recordings"
Grant Green: "Idle moments"
Wes Montgomery: "Complete live in Paris 1965"
Jim Hall-Bill Evans: "Intermodulations"
Kenny Burrell: “Blue lights”
"New ways" (or something like that):
Al Di Meola-John McLaughlin-Paco de Lucía: "Passion, grace & fire"
Miles Davis (with John McLaughlin): “A tribute to Jack Johnson”
John McLaughlin: “Extrapolation”
Mahavishnu Orchestra: “The inner mounting flame”
Mahavishnu Orchestra: “Birds of fire”
Shakti: “A Handful of Beauty”
John Scofield: “A go go”
John Scofield: “Scolohofo”
Allan Holdsworth: “Secrets”
Ernest Ranglin: “Below the bassline”
Ernest Ranglin: "Memories of Barber Mack"
...And two little Spanish masterpieces:
Pedro Iturralde: "Jazz flamenco"
Michel Camilo & Tomatito: "Spain"
Regards from Spain
Jose
Last edited by Jmal; 10-27-2009 at 09:48 AM.
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10-27-2009, 09:29 AM
#132
+1 on everything
and Danny Gatton - Untouchable
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10-27-2009, 09:31 AM
#133
Just came back from Jamaica. It was my first visit in 25 years. I was born there and spent 21 years of my life there. I went to the School of Music. While I was there Ranglin taught guitar.
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10-27-2009, 10:17 AM
#134
I previously nominated Pat Martino's "El Hombre" (especially for "Just Friends"), but I must also second the nomination of Wes Montgomery, "Smokin' at the Half Note" and add
Kenny Burrell, "Introducing Kenny Burrell" (his first, age 24);
Pat Metheny, "Question and Answer" (especially for his blazing solo on "All the Things You Are"); and
Grant Green, "Solid" (especially for "Minor League" and "Ezzthetic"; great example of his leading a hard bop combo that includes McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones)
Barney Kessel, "Solo" (his only solo album)
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10-27-2009, 10:24 AM
#135
1. Tony Williams Lifetime - Believe it (with Alan Holdsworth)
2. Jonathan Kreisberg (Salzau concert)
3. Larry Carlton
5. Joe Pass
6. Gary Burton - Like minds (with Pat Metheny)
7. Robben Ford - Leverkusen Jazztage
8. Diana Krall - The girl in the other room (with Anthony Wilson)
9. Nguyen Le - Maghreb and friends
10 Antonio Forcione
There are a lot of more to mention, but some are already posted.
Greetings from Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Andreas
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10-27-2009, 10:52 AM
#136
Hi fellows guitarists,
I'd like to add the following artists to that wonderful list :
Robben Ford - Supernatural
Luis Salinas - Salinas
Ronny Jordan - The quiet revolution
Russell Malone - All of you with Diana Krall
Chuck Loeb - Grapewine with the Metro band
Bireli Lagrène - (Solo, to Bi or not to Bi)
and of course, i'm a great fan of Montgomery, Benson, Burrell, Ellis, Farlow, Martino, Kessel, Metheny, Ritenour and others
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10-27-2009, 10:54 AM
#137
Pat Martino - El Hombre
Kurt Rosenwinkel - The Remedy
Joe Pass - Virtuoso
Mike Moreno - Between the Lines
Wes Montgomery - The incredible Jazz Guitar of
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10-27-2009, 11:39 AM
#138
You have to mention charlie Christian.
Also, two less-well known ut formidable players: the late Tod Vullo out of Houston, TX, USA, and Bobby Broom out of Chicago, IL, USA.
I'm glad to be part of this. You all know so much!
Thanks!
James
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10-27-2009, 11:43 AM
#139
I’m not sure if any of these greatest or top lists are a good idea or if they make any sense, particularly in reference to jazz. It’s like asking who was the better guitar player Joe Pass or Chet Atkins? How can you rate them, they were both great. But in any event, if you’re doing a list just for fun, here’s just a few of my favorites. Not in any order, and I tried to pick some non-typical selections. Any of these are great listening.
- Wes and Friends – Wes Montgomery, Milt Jackson and George Shearing
- Matchbook – Ralph Towner and Gary Burton
- Body Talk – George Benson
- White Rabbit – George Benson
- Gypsy Project – Bireli Lagrene
- Captain Fingers – Lee Ritenour
- Consciousness – Pat Martino
- Intermodulation – Bill Evans and Jim Hall
- Inner Mounting Flame – Mahavishnu Orchestra
- Tambu – Cal Tjader and Charlie Byrd
- Alto – Ali Ryerson and Joe Beck
- Johnny Smith – Johnny Smith (Verve)
- Concierto – Jim Hall, Ron Carter, Paul Desmond
- Virtuoso – Joe Pass
- Woman on Top – Various artists
- Next Stop Wonderland – Various artists
- Dawg Jazz – David Grisman and Tony Rice
- Southern Comfort – The Crusaders
- Where Have I Known You Before – Return to Forever
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10-27-2009, 11:49 AM
#140
Howard Roberts The Real Howard Roberts
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10-27-2009, 12:13 PM
#141
Bill Evans/Jim Hall - Undercurrent
Wes Montgomery/The Wynton Kelly Trio - Smokin' at the Half Note
Pat Metheny/Brad Mehldau - Metheny/Mehldau Quartet
Charlie Byrd - Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros
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10-27-2009, 12:47 PM
#142
Fantastic lists but pulling it all together will be tough. If we want to add only new names, I'd throw in Ronnie Earl's Grateful Heart cd -- soulful, bluesy jazz that is sure to please everyone who hears it, even if they claim not to like jazz!
A real service would be to get beyond the 'important' albums that we feel obliged to include in the jazz guitar canon and to have a discussion on what is great album by one artist e.g., lots of people cite Joe Pass' Virtuoso album and while I admire it, I don't love listening to it and would like to learn about alternative Pass recordings that capture other aspects of his playing. I also think some of Wes' catalog is just dull (sorry!) and would love to find a way of identifying the real gems in his catalog. And so on....but thanks all for the lists so far -- and I am sure Amazon.com will thank you too when I overspend again....
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10-27-2009, 01:06 PM
#143
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
Lenny Breau Live at Bourbon Street
Jazz Winds from a New Direction by Hank Garland
Just about any Hot Club Quintet album with Django
Gateway by John Abercrombie's Gateway trio
Plus something by Eddie Lang and something by Charlie Christian - without these two there would be no jazz guitar tradition at all.
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10-27-2009, 01:19 PM
#144
Rene Thomas - Guitar Groove: His ballad playing on "Ruby, My Dear" is worth the price of the admission alone
Howard Roberts - Live at Donte's Volume 2
George Barnes - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Jim Hall - Jazz Guitar Trio
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10-27-2009, 01:27 PM
#145
my 2 cents on top 100 jazz gtr albums:
Kurt Rosenwinkel : Heartcore
Jonathan Kreisberg: Unearth
Corey Christiansen : Awakening
Nguyen Le: 3 trios
David Torn : Cloud about Mercury
Lage Lund: Early songs
Pat Martino: Think tank
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10-27-2009, 01:57 PM
#146
Hi,
Here are few of mine for the top 100.
I Remember Charlie Parker - Joe Pass
The Song Within - Phil Keaggy
One Quiet Night - Pat Metheny
Remember: A tribute to Wes Montgomery - Pat Martino
Coincidence - Joe Beck.
Larry & Lee - Lee Ritenour & Larry Carlton
Jeff
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10-27-2009, 01:57 PM
#147
I forgot to add Spaces - Larry Coryell, has some great guitar going back and forth between Larry and John Mclaughlin.
Also I can't understand how anyone can find any of Wes Montgomery's work "dull". Not even his more commercial later work, but everyone's entitled to their own opinion.
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10-27-2009, 02:07 PM
#148
For me, the only ones discs that does not appear is from two great jazz guitar players:
Chuck Loeb => #1 Smooth Jazz Radio Hits
Peter White => By Candlelight
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10-27-2009, 02:11 PM
#149
There are so many good jazz albums. I'm more into the fusion stuff to this list may not be pertentent. These are also the only albums I know and some of the artists have a few great albums.
Can't wait for the complete list
Cosmic Messenger - Jean Luc Ponty
Lift off - Jeff Lorber Fusion
Wyclifftower - Alan Holdsworth
The Inner Mounting Flame - John McLaughlin
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
School Days - Stanley Clarke & George Duke
Unorthodox Behaviour - Brand X
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
One of a Kind - Bill Bruford
Tribal Tech - Tribal Tech
Vital information - Steve Smith
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10-27-2009, 02:54 PM
#150
Django Reinhardt:IN MEMORIAM 1908-1954
Nows the time improv
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