The Jazz Guitar Chord Dictionary
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    Nope, you cant say Tim Learch or Ted Greene, or Ted Bickert, Lenny Breau.

    I also see test of Les Pauls, standards or customs, and im just annoyed they dont use those guitars to play jazz. Damn overdriven sounds.

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    Chris Crocco!


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    Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Mike Stern, maybe Al DiMeola. Pat Metheny when he plays guitar synth. Eldon Shamblin? Pat Martino at one point in his career. Jim Hall played a Les Paul on "Good Friday Blues", but that wasn't usual for him.

    One problem I have in naming players here is that I don't have a very well-bounded idea of what "jazz" is. I am also somewhat out of touch with the very youngest players - some of the players in the Hancock Institute's recent Jazz Guitar competition appeared to be playing solidbodies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by man-argentina
    Nope, you cant say Tim Learch or Ted Greene, or Ted Bickert, Lenny Breau.
    Lorne Lofsky out of Toronto.

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    Adam Rogers, Ulf Wakenius and Nir Felder are the first names that comes to mind.

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    John Abercrombie also used several different solid guitars.

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    Benson and Hall put in their time on a Les Paul. Even Les Paul tried one.

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    Joe Pass.


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    John Stowell plays almost 'bodiless' guitar)) and sounds like an traditional archtop

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    In the UK, Dave Cliff. Also Jim Mullen played a tele for a long time.

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    Danny W.

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    Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, Wayne Krantz, Bruce Bartlett, Steve Masakowski, Charlie Hunter, Robin Ford. Do I count?

    I didn't buy my first Archtop until 18 months ago. Before that I used my 85 MIJ Contemporary Strat the most, a 99 MIM Tele and a Sheraton II. These were the guitars I used when I was studying with Charlie Banacos, and he never said anything about them. I just rolled the treble back, used the neck pickup and sounded fine. I did some recordings with them too. But I should mention I wasn't playing any Jazz Gigs at that time either.

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    Ulf Wakenius (solo starting at 3:58):



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    Another video featuring Ulf Wakenius playing his Aria Les Paul copy:



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    Rune Gustafsson used a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop equipped with P-90 pickups during a long time in his career. Here’s a duo recording from 1980 with Gustafsson and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen.


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    pat martino and billy butler used L5-s



    cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by neatomic
    pat martino and billy butler used L5-s



    cheers
    Cool, only saw Billy w/ an acoustic Epi and his Super 400.

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    I'm not sure if he owned this '60 Les Paul Standard or borrowed it for this European tour but here's a young George Benson tearing it up w/the great Jack Mcduff quartet.


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    Same circumstances w/ the underrated Quentin Warren, not certain if he borrowed the Strat for the European tour because he was afraid of bringing his prized custom L-5 overseas.


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    Jazz guitar players with solid guitars?-p-jpg
    Looks like lots of us!

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    I am not familiar with Ted Bickert, but his Canadian cousin Ed Bickert is pretty amazing.


    Another solid body jazz guitarist to consider is Clint Strong, who often played a Les Paul. And don't forget Howard Roberts, Barney Kessel and Herb Ellis both played Telecasters in the studio, albeit typically on rock sessions rather than jazz recordings. There's a clip of Geo. Benson playing a Strat somewhere on YouTube. Frisell, of course. Al DiMeola. I think McLaughlin has been mentioned.

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    Benson playing a Strat somewhere on YouTube.
    I think it was not strat but some kind of Ibanez RG type guitar... not sure though.

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    Allan Holdsworth

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    Chuck Loeb (Sadowsky Strat)

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    Stanley Jordan, David Gilmore, Frank Gambale,