Top 3 Jazz guitar CDs/Vinyl/Cassette/MP3

**r_cc_c** · 06-26-2015, 12:17 AM

I am interested to find out your top 3 favorite Jazz Guitar CD/Vinyl/... (any format is fine) mainly because I want to listen to more.

Here are mine

Pat Martino - Live at Yoshi's
Ray Brown trio - Some of my best friends are guitarists
Joe Pass - Joy Spring

**travisty** · 06-26-2015, 04:56 AM

I will toss out a couple of "good ones" - maybe not the best ones out there and perhaps not my favorites if I were to dig through my thousands of jazz records on vinyl or CD, but interesting nonetheless... and well worth pulling out of the stack.

Paul Chambers - Bass On Top
Like the title says, it is bass on top. For me one of the better bass-led jazz albums ever produced. Kenny Burrell plays a great guitar on this album.

Bill Frisell - With David Holland and Elvin Jones
An interesting exploration into instrumental guitar jazz. I also like Good Dog Happy Man.

As for a third, I am partial to The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery but that is kind of a jazz guitar staple.

**Archie** · 06-26-2015, 05:15 AM

Originally Posted by travisty

I will toss out a couple of "good ones" - maybe not the best ones out there and perhaps not my favorites if I were to dig through my thousands of jazz records on vinyl or CD, but interesting nonetheless... and well worth pulling out of the stack.

Paul Chambers - Bass On Top
Like the title says, it is bass on top. For me one of the better bass-led jazz albums ever produced. Kenny Burrell plays a great guitar on this album.

Bill Frisell - With David Holland and Elvin Jones
An interesting exploration into instrumental guitar jazz. I also like Good Dog Happy Man.

As for a third, I am partial to The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery but that is kind of a jazz guitar staple.

The Bill Frisell Trio 'live' is a masterpiece.

**Para** · 06-26-2015, 05:19 AM

Two of my favorite albums are Doug Raney's Blues On a Par and Somethings up.

**vinlander** · 06-26-2015, 08:45 AM

For me, being the stuck in the mid 50s early 60s jazz guitar fan I am, it would have to be:

The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow
The Trio Revisited with Billy Bean
René Thomas Quintet Guitar Groove

**r_cc_c** · 06-26-2015, 10:58 AM

Thanks to all...buying more CDs, make make me happy
keep it coming

**travisty** · 06-26-2015, 11:29 AM

Listening to Bill Frisell's Live in Seattle now. Bill's the dude (that's why I have almost everything he has done).

**MarkRhodes** · 06-26-2015, 11:42 AM

For me, Wes's "Smokin' At the Half Note" was the record that made me think jazz guitar was something worth pursuing. (Before, I liked jazz but didn't care the sound of most jazz guitar I heard, so I didn't try to play any of it.)

Kenny Burrell's "Midnight Blue" is epic in a whole 'nother vein.

The sides Charlie Christian cut with the Benny Goodman Sextet---which I only heard after I heard Wes and Kenny---is my 'ground zero for jazz guitar.'

**John A.** · 06-26-2015, 11:54 AM

It'' hard to limit myself to three, or even express this in terms of records. It's more a matter of who are the players you have to check out, and which records represent them well. With that in mind, here are three more:

Jim Hall - a tie between Paul Desmond -- Bossa Antigua and Bill Evans/Jim Hall Undercurrent
Sco -- hard to pick one, but I'll go with Groovelation
Pat Metheny -- Still Life Talking
Grant Green -- Grantstand
Steve Masakowski -- for Joe

John

**Max405** · 06-26-2015, 12:52 PM

Johnny Smith - Legends
Joe Pass - Virtuoso
George Benson - Weekend in LA

too bad I'm limited to 3.

**petermelton** · 06-26-2015, 01:48 PM

Jimmy Raney -Complete Studio Sessions: Stan Getz and Jimmy Raney
Gilad Hekselman - Hearts Wide Open
Ed Bickert - Paul Desmond's Pure Desmond.

**Woody Sound** · 06-26-2015, 01:59 PM

How about WE put together a "core library" list of jazz guitar records? Could be posted somewhere under one of the menu headings.Might be hard to do, given the many opinions here, but I mean a real CORE selection. 50?

**Stringswinger** · 06-26-2015, 02:24 PM

The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

So Much Guitar (Wes Montgomery)

Intercontinental Joe Pass

**TedBPhx** · 06-26-2015, 03:38 PM

I'll confess, I heard the Joe Pass Intercontinental for the first time last night. Brought me to tears.

**mr. beaumont** · 06-26-2015, 03:57 PM

Wow...3?

Frisell with Lovano and Motian, "i have the room above her"

Grant Green "grantstand"

Jim Hall "magic meeting"

**r_cc_c** · 06-26-2015, 05:36 PM

List them all! three is just an artificial number.

For Wes, I love Boss Guitar!

**rob taft** · 06-26-2015, 06:50 PM

I'll add four that influenced me the first time I heard them. Except for "Live at the Half Note" I bought these LPs new when they first came out. I bought Live at the Half Note after I read about Pat Martino's influences. These are still favorites today.

Wes Montgomery "Live at the Half Note"

John McLaughlin "My Goals Beyond"

Pat Martino "Live". I wore out 3LPS playing along with "Sunny"

George Benson "Weekend in LA" - Specifically "Windsong and "Ode to a Kudu"

**nado64** · 06-28-2015, 09:10 AM

Kurt Rosenwinkel - the Next Step
Paul Desmond & the canadian quartet - live w/ Ed Bickert trio
Grant Green - n°1 Green Street

**goldenwave77** · 06-28-2015, 12:34 PM

Hank Garland: "Jazz Winds from a New Direction". One of the most convincing bop guitarists, IMO. Also interesting to listen to the 17-yr. old (!) Gary Burton on this recording.

**r_cc_c** · 06-29-2015, 10:03 AM

Does "Live at the Half Note" refer to "Smokin' at the Half Note"?

http://www.amazon.com/Smokin-The-Hal.../dp/B0006VXF4G

**rictroll** · 06-29-2015, 07:45 PM

This one often gets overlooked - great tunes and it's a two-fer:

Marc Johnson - The Sound of Summer Running (with Pat M. And Bill F.)

Just to offer some other outliers:

John McLaughlin - Natural Elements with Shakti
Ralph Towner - Solstice