The Ultimate Jazz Guitar Tone

[vinnyv1k]

For me it is the albums 7th Ave. Stroll and True Blue by Mark Whitfield. I bet my bottom dollar he is playing through a Twin Reverb. I love GB's tone on Giblet Gravy too.

What's your favorite guitar tone albums gents ? Yes Django & JoySpring by JP way up there too.

[wintermoon]

[mr. beaumont]

Boy, i got so many...Hombre for sure, Joy Spring, Jimmy Raney's tone on pretty much anything....and i dig modern sounds too...Matthew Stevens sounds so good to me in his solo record and on Christian Atunde Adjuah...oh, and Frisell on the record with Carter and Motian and on Motian's "I have the room above her"...Abercrombie on the ECM stuff with Feldman...

Sure I'm misding some others too...I'm definitely not a "one tone" guy...

[vinlander]

The Swinging Guitar of Thunk Farlow

[vinnyv1k]

Tal Farlow is the KING of thunk ! I love his tone.

[eddy b.]

Ed Bickert on "out of the past", SRV on "Lenny", Pat Martino on "El Hombre", Kurt Rosenwinkel on "East Coast Love Affair", All of Peter Bernstein, Wes on"Smokin at the Half Note", Alan Holdsworth on "All Night Wrong", Mike Stern on "Standards and Other Songs", All of Steve Cropper...ad infinatum

[Klatu]

All of Peter Bernstein

. . . on his Zeidler

[jazzbow]

John McGlaughlin on 'Birds of Fire', Kenny Burrell on ''Round Midnight', Charlie Christian on 'Swing to Bop' live at Mintons CD, Steve Jones on 'Never Mind the Bo****ks', Grant Green on 'Idle Moments' and Andy Gill on 'Songs of the Free'.

[Al_F]

Not jazz but randomly saw this band, Eileen Jewel, guitar player lovely tone via Gretsch, Princeton reverb.

https://youtu.be/Lby_GXOrNLU

[Para]

Doug Raney Blues On A Par.

[feral guitar]

Bireli on his Gibson Super V

[Stringswinger]

Joe Pass on Intercontinental, For Django, Simplicity

Wes Montgomery on So Much Guitar, The Incredible Guitar of Wes Montgomery, Bags Meets Wes

Stevie Ray Vaughn on Texas Flood

Jimi Hendrix on Axis Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland

[llazarides]

Jesse van Ruller on "Here and There", Lage Lund on the first OWL Trio album

[Paul B]

Jim Hall: Live!

[Tom Karol]

"HR is a Dirty Guitar Player!"

[neatomic]

many of the above mentioned & many many more…and still coming!!!

but one that i have loved for years is john abercrombies rubbery tone on the first gateway album on ecm…he's pictured on the back cover with an old gibby roundhole archtop!!??…incredible tones



i'd be remiss not to cite 50's era jim hall on 175 thru gibson ga50 amp..classic..which is a direct link to abercrombie, who was huge hall fan…the circle

cheers

[Max405]

Here's an oddball..
Hershel Yatovitz Baha sessions Chris Isaak (my secret all time favorite sound)
not such an oddball..
Grant Geisman Feels so good, Chuck Mangione
Some basics..
George Benson, Weekend in LA
Kenny Burrell, Blue lights volume 1&2

[entresz]

Gosh, there's many great sounds I can think of...

Herb Ellis on 'Ellis in Wonderland'- classic P-90 ES175 sounds, and fantastic playing.
Billy Bean- any of those trio recordings.
Django Reinhardt's electric sound, particularly on the recording of "Honeysuckle Rose" with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Charlie Christian.... all of his recordings.
Oscar Moore.... all those Nat King Cole Trio recordings are fantastic
Bireli Lagrene... I like the sound he gets from his L-5, kind of George Benson-ish, but in his own way...crazy chops too.
Tal Farlow... The Classic Guitar of Tal Farlow is a great example, I also love the early recordings with Artie Shaw, and those with the Red Norvo Trio.
Kenny Burrell on Midnight blue...

on a side note, one of my favourite tones, although not jazz at all is Albert King's earlier recordings (60s/70's). That guy had a huge tone.

[vinnyv1k]

Looks like it is time to go onto Amazon and order a few more cd's. :-)

[Greentone]

Martin Taylor playing a 1939 Gibson Super 400P on "Over the Rainbow" and a 1989 D'Aquisto New Yorker on "My Romance" on Tone Poems II with David Grisman, Acoustic Disc, 1995. Those are my two favorite acoustic archtop tones of all time.

For electric: Herb Ellis and Joe Pass each playing Gibson ES-175 guitars on "Love for Sale," on the album Two for the Road, Pablo Records, 1974. ...or...anything by Grant Green on Blue Note

[entresz]

I forgot to mention all those roost recordings of Johnny Smith, he had a great sound.

[Dennis D]

Wes Montgomery: Bumpin'

(( Esp. ' Tear It Down ' ))

For me, that's ' end of story '.

[oldane]

Jimmy Raney on "Two Jims and a Zoot" and "Streetswingers" albums.

[r_cc_c]

Pat Martino Live at Yoshi's

[blkjazz]

Kenny Burrell on anything. Wes Montgomery on anything. Grant Green on anything.